I hate my Garage

[No2Flesh]

My wife rat holes everything in there so I cant keep it clean.

No matter what it is "we need to keep that"..:hairout:

So we finally get some toys into boxes, out of the house and into the garage to cut the clutter inside, but each time the kids go to the garage they see it as a treasure hunt and bring one or more of the toys back inside.

What tools I do have are cheap...my drill started throwing rubber parts out of the vented sides and smoking when I was drilling in the mortar to hang the flood light. :fear

My grinder throws sparks even when it isnt touching anything.:panic

I can never find the charger for my ***** guns, (I have several because I keep losing the charger.) The ***** guns are weak and wouldnt drive a ***** into oak anyway. :twitch

Where is my hammer?! I bought 3.

Now each time Im in the garage I see the sliver of light shining through where the door is bent from my wife ramming it with her car.
This, I learned, was caused by me talking to her on the cell phone at the time.


Last week she called me from the mall saying her car was stole, in a panic.
I asked off work and drove to the mall where we found her car parked at the east entrance instead of the north side where she said she parked it.

Im still trying to figure out why a thief would steal her car only to park it on the other side of the mall. He must have a sense of humor? :hehee

Nevertheless, I love them all and life wouldnt be nearly as interesting without them. :)

[ShannonWallace]

www.FlyLady.net

For your wife, or you.

[lyngraphics]

My wife rat holes everything in there so I cant keep it clean.

No matter what it is "we need to keep that"..:hairout:


Tim, is that you?







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[Anddra]

Tim, is that you?



:heh (oops, men only!) http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm48/rricebear/backout.gif

:pound

[jeshurun]

sounds like you're living the good life...

[CJ65]

I'm bad about hanging on to stuff. (Do you have any idea how much that 33MHz IBM w/ math co-processor cost? How can we just pitch it?) But I keep it all in the basement. My wife wants a tidy basement and constantly shifts things into the garage. Now, I consider a car-hole a luxury, having grown up scraping windows and shivering violently in the driver's seat whilst keeping the jalopy running and when I find too much stuff in there to park; well I know it's time for a trip to the Good Will store or (sadly), to the curb on pick-up day. We've achieved a sort of balance.

I drove my daughter all the way to school this year only to find out she'd forgotten to put shoes on. She didn't realize it until she went to get out of the car. Now she wants her driver's license.

It's all part of a rich and wonderful tapestry, ain't it?

[Biblecat2]

I drove my daughter all the way to school this year only to find out she'd forgotten to put shoes on. She didn't realize it until she went to get out of the car. Now she wants her driver's license.

:lol2

[ANewCreature]

I'm bad about hanging on to stuff. (Do you have any idea how much that 33MHz IBM w/ math co-processor cost? How can we just pitch it?)

Man, I'd be looking at antique dealers with that thing! Just like I keep saying - but never actually do - for the commodore 64 that should still run, though i haven't checked in maybe 15 years, in my attic; though most of the stuff I have are old books and toys. Still got some clutter, though, but at least i can read if I have a few years to kill. :)

I drove my daughter all the way to school this year only to find out she'd forgotten to put shoes on. She didn't realize it until she went to get out of the car. Now she wants her driver's license.

It's all part of a rich and wonderful tapestry, ain't it?

Quite fun and invigorating. Although...she wants her driver's license?So this means this wasn't a Kindergarten/first grade girl who did this? Because when I was first reading that story, I thought it was one of those cute things that kids do that I was going to suggest you send in to one of the comics writers like Family Circus. But, this means a 15-16-year-old forgot her shoes? That is hard to imagine.:lol2

Of course, you could still send it in - wonder what your daughter would think if she saw 5-6-year-old Dolly doing something cute/funny in "Family Circus," (I know Bil Keane sometimes uses things people send in) or some other young kid, and realizing she was the inspiration, at 15-16? (Well, it might make her remember her shoes.)

[CJ65]

Man, I'd be looking at antique dealers with that thing! Just like I keep saying - but never actually do - for the commodore 64 that should still run, though i haven't checked in maybe 15 years, in my attic; though most of the stuff I have are old books and toys. Still got some clutter, though, but at least i can read if I have a few years to kill. :)
Oh, in answer to the question, "How can we just pitch it?", my wife was more than happy to show me.
My latest tact, "But I'm going to put linux on this one and experiment !" seems to be working - so far. But eventually, with respect to the basement, Ornung muss sein ! and I'll find that old late 90's Pentium out on the curb. I really do have an old redhat distro for it. I just haven't been possessed by that special obsessive mood that you need to be in to install and tweak an older version of linux.

Quite fun and invigorating. Although...she wants her driver's license?So this means this wasn't a Kindergarten/first grade girl who did this? Because when I was first reading that story, I thought it was one of those cute things that kids do that I was going to suggest you send in to one of the comics writers like Family Circus. But, this means a 15-16-year-old forgot her shoes? That is hard to imagine.:lol2

It really happened. In fact, it has already become a family in-joke. It has a great way of defusing potentially tense moments. She asks something like, "Dad, are you mad about my grades?", when she's tanked a class she really tried hard in, instead of saying something about how she tried her best, etc, etc; I laugh and tell her, "Dearie, I'm just happy that you remembered to wear shoes to school. Anything more is pure gravy". Then we both laugh.

[Wally]

I have a tee-shirt from the Cracker Barrel:


The Garage is Mine!

You can have the house.



Anything that enters the garage gets a time stamp. If not touched within that time (seasonal) I burn, toss, or use it for repair parts.

The only things safe in the garage, have Kubota, Stihl, Craftsman, Milwaulkee, Dewalt.... on them.