The Great Garage Project
Now that I'm done with the wedding, I've been able to spend the last week working away on the Great Garage Project of 2006.
In November, I put up 32 feet of heavy duty shelving. That's was when I learned that not all drills are created equal. I had some run-of-the-mill Black and Decker drill that would not make pilot holes into the wall studs under any circumstances. I'll be honest and tell you that I shed a few tears over it. I take home improvement very seriously and don't like failure. But once I received overnight delivery of a Makita 6347DWDE 18-Volt cordless drill from Amazon.com, I was in heaven. Drilling into those studs was like pushing into butter.
After mounting the shelves, I moved onto assembling our garage cabinetry. I put together a 4 x 6 foot cabinet as well as a narrower one, and the Garage Project was well underway. However, holidays, cold weather, and other projects put everything on the back burner until now.
So, this week I have put up 20 feet of additional heavy-duty shelves, assembled two low cabinets that I've attached with a tabletop to make a work area, and put up a pegboard hutch backing. I'm also working on a second 4 x 6 foot cabinet. I'm going to whip this garage into shape if it kills me!
I've also been sorting through all of the boxes leftover from our move. When you combine households, it's a nightmare figuring out where everything is going to go. Some things are duplicates, others no longer have a place in the house, and you inevitably find things you forgot you had. After living in one place for almost 10 years (my flat in San Francisco) it is time for me to re-evaluate all my stuff.
I have stacks of colored post-its that I've been using to tag the different boxes. That way, if I have to move things around, I can easily keep things together. There are the donate boxes, 'sell on eBay' boxes, take the used bookstore boxes, give away on Freecycle boxes, and so on. I'll have a lot to follow up on even after I sort through everything, but at least this way I don't have to worry about getting confused if I get interrupted.
My neighbors watch me do all this with some amusement. One pointed out that I'm not supposed to organize my garage until I've lived here 17 years; otherwise, I make everyone look bad! I've noticed a few of them rummaging around in their garages since I started.
Working on the garage is tiring work but it is enormously fulfilling. Whenever I can sort and organize, I'm a happy girl. Let me use my drill and I'm downright giddy. It's too bad that I'll have to stop soon to work on a bigger project. These are good times....
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