Cleaning the Garage

 

We got our dumpster today, which is super exciting. Also, they delivered a 30yd instead of a 20yd, which I guess is an added bonus.

It turned out well, because the crap in the garage took up a lot of space…

I didn’t remember my resolve to take a before picture, as I was super excited to start. Didn’t remember until I was halfway done, so it was moot. However, let me put it this way: a) I’ve made a good dent in a 30 cubic yard dumpster; b) before when you opened the door, all you saw was a sea of trash, couldn’t even walk in.

Here’s some highlights:

• Old glass storm windows
• The extra pieces for the ‘new’ gutters, including a ton of connectors
• The old gutters. And their connectors.
• 3 lawnmowers and a snowblower.
• Old TV.
• LP gas heater.
• An entire wok set, still in the packaging (I kept that).
• Many hockey sticks.
• Clothes hangers. This guy had a problem. We find them everywhere. In this case, even attached to the spring for the garage door.
• Lots of lumber, the good stuff I’m keeping.
• 1.5 rear spoilers to an unknown car.
• An old windshield wiper, in the new wiper’s box.
• A crate that seemed to be purpose built to hold his old paint can lids.
• The old garage (?) window.
• Empty packaging, empty boxes.
• An ice-hole drill thingy for ice fishing.
• Lots of little bits of things: tiny pieces of foam insulation (less than 1 sqft), 6inch long pieces of downspout, 1ft long pieces of lumber. What did he expect to do with these things?
• 6ft long, 1/4”ish thick, 6” wide piece of aluminum. To the scrappers!
• Some sort of large pavilion-y tent thing.
• And.. a kitchen sink. No joke.

It seems like whoever it was that packed the majority of this shit in there saved the old broken whatever whenever he replaced something. When we first moved in we got rid of an old dishwasher that was in there, and the dishwasher in the kitchen when we moved in was already from the 80s or 90s. That means the ‘old dishwasher’ sat in that garage for probably 25 years, through at least 2 subsequent owners before we got rid of it.