This joke in my house was, “It sure is nice to have a garage!  Too bad we can’t park the car in it.” 

Jump back in time to three years ago.  We were moving in.  The boxes were piled in every room of the house.  As the sun started to sink lower behind the trees we decided to take the last load of stuff and dump it on the floor of the garage.  Fast forward to the present.  The majority of that box pile still sits in the same spot and the car is still outside getting pelted by acorns and buried in leaves.

Interestingly enough, many people across the country have this problem.  The garage is full of junk and the car sits outside.  A tree could fall on your car but your stuff will be safe.  I would laugh out loud listening to George Carlin talk about “stuff” because with my garage, I could definately relate! The crazy part of all that is, I don’t even KNOW what the stuff is that I’m keeping so safe in the garage!

Obviously, if we haven’t needed any of that stuff in three years, we SHOULD trash every one of those boxes.  Things just don’t work that way in my house.  I know if I got rid of all that stuff without first going through it, I would think that every missing item for years to come was thrown out in that pile of boxes.  So the boxes stayed…for now. Continue Reading »