How should I go about cleaning my garage?
Question:I have three GIANT piles of stuff. It literally takes up a 2 1/2 car garage leaving just walking room from the door leading into the house to the side door and the big garage door to that walkway (in the middle).
The back pile consists of LOTS of toolboxes, giant toolbox-type storage bins (3), old bikes, big box-carrying pusher things (like the restockers in a hospital would use), and some empty storage bins.
The left section of my garage is mostly boxes from when I moved into my house (six years ago). The boxes used to be neatly stacked, but have been fallen over. There is also an old microwave, a record player (don't know if it works), old speakers, and a baby crib.
The right pile is a HUGE MESS! There is a ladder, a childrens swimming pool, boxes, Literally buckets and buckets of little brass plumbing parts (my grandpa was a plumber - he died when I was one, now I'm sixteen). We got my grandma's house when I was 9. We also have JUNK. Theres Buried stuff I don't know abt.
Answers:
I hope you ate your wheaties this morning.
If this were my task, I would drag everything out of there. Everything. Do a good sweeping job and maybe mop the floor too with a cheap mop that I wouldn't care about throwing away when I was done.
Then bit by bit go through the stuff. Figure out what to trash and what to keep. Rebox items and get rid of the boxes that have collapsed. Put the items in related areas of the garage neatly.
GOOD LUCK. I actually kind of like this kind of stuff :-)
thats alot of stuff im guessing you could ask for help
sorry i dont have the best stuff for this question
ARE YOU WRITING A BOOK??What about JUST digging in and DO IT!!
My advice would be to find a local auction company that specializes in yard sale stuff. They are not that expensive and will basically get rid of all your stuff.
yard sale
You need to sort all 3 piles into 3 DIFFERENT piles:
Trash
Donate
Keep
Do not let sentiment rule your decision. If you do, you'll end up keeping a bunch of junk!
Once you finish sorting, organize the things you're keeping. Store all like things together. Hang as much as you can on walls using pegboard and hooks.
If you do this, you'll get your garage back in order quick!!
You've got a big task ahead of you.
First, get some help. You probably don't want to do all this by yourself.
Second, get some trash cans and put them outside your garage in your driveway.
Third, move everything outside your garage, throwing trash and junk away as you find it. Organize it into piles as your putting it in your driveway, like put paint cans and bottles and such in one pile, yard sale stuff perhaps in another pile.
Fourth, once the garage is all cleaned out, start moving stuff back in. If you've got cabinets, or big buckets, use them to your advantage. If you don't, i guess you could just stack them neatly wherever you see fit.
Depending on where you live, like the USA.
There is a company named: Closet World", check in your phone book. they will build you a roomy closet or shelving. For the rest of the old items you don't need or want, donate them to Good Will or the Salvation Army. Ask Good Will or the Salvation Army for a receipt for the value of these items. You can write off the items donated from your income tax at the end of the year. The rest of the junk, take it to the dumping yard or have a yard sale for the neighbors come over help themselves to it, or sell it to them. good luck!
things that you do not use or think you will never us again. They should go to the junk yard.
That should help you reduce the clutter immediately.
The begin a task of organization.
I have a simple and short answer for you.
Move everything into the driveway. Only put back what you really, really want or need to keep, and putting in the right place. Put all the trash in the garbage bins. Put up a garage sale sign and make a few extra bucks. What's left over, call your local charitable organization to see if they can come pick up the rest. Or just put a sign out that says "Free stuff!"
I have a 54 year old husband, 3 sons-ages 24, 26, 28, and a 23 year old daughter-in-law. Being that I have "multiple sclerosis" I would probably get them all together on a Saturday, have them take everything out of the garage, set it out on the driveway, I would then sweep the garage out, then hose the garage floor down, sweep the water out, have my husband, and the kids put everything back in the garage, and then "ORDER AS MANY PIZZAS AS THEY WANT"!:)
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