Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day


Today is indeed, a memorial day. I have conqured the House Of Many Treasures. It's been a long task, and there is still some clean up to do, but the end is very,very near. There's been many huge undertakings this last month, but the garage has got to have been the worst. Here's where we began.

It's a huge oversized 2 car garage. Almost big enough to be a 3 car but not quite. For years, there's only been one spot to park a car, and if you didn't line up exactly right with the blue garden globe the was on the heap of boxes , you were never going to be able to get the car door open to make your escape. Thanks to my sister and brother in law, the hole was widened after 2 days of slaving, and I could begin to see how huge a job this was going to be.

Stage 2. This is where we left it after another 2 weekends of work. Everything and I do mean everything, covered in mouse droppings, mud wasp nests, dirt and spiders. Pleasant way to spend a weekend, don't you think? Everything had to be opened, inspected and repacked or trashed. Too many treasures, kept in the garage for 12 years ended up being trashed thanks to mouse damage or moisture damage.



Stage 3. It's Memorial Day. My husband and I have spent two 12 hours days and the garage is mostly done. Oh, I know it doesn't look it, but it is. Things with big yellow tags go to a family member for storage. Everything else is destined to go to a salvage place. I hope I can find one to come this week or next weekend. There's still lots of useable things for someone.


Thank goodness this House of Many Tresures is only 12 years old. I'd still be working on July 4th weekend. I wish I had a panoramic camera so you could really see the whole thing!


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

That starting point picture was actually taken after the first dumpster was half full! This was an amazing task. Here's a big pat on your back for sticking with it! I'll cross my fingers and hope that family member agrees to the storage. That's still a lot of stuff. It's just heartbreaking to think how much has been spent on all this stuff that just lives in boxes in an overstuffed garage. What a waste.

Wendy Gunderson said...

We filled dumpster #3 totally full in the 2 days we spent in the garage this weekend. The third day of this long weekend, I spent inside, paring down the left over inside boxes. I got it down from abou 75 boxes to about 50.