I Never Thought We Were Hoarders.....

Our garage, to put it in real estate language is "no longer performing the function for which intended". If, indeed, the intention of a garage is to house an automobile. It currently functions as a woodworking shop, auto repair shop, home improvement store, office products warehouse, used furniture store, home gym, storage facility, and county landfill.

A quick inventory of the contents revealed:

• 2 dressers
• 1 chair
• 1 Ikea tv/microwave cart
• 1 car hood
• 1 bunk bed frame
• lots of wooden slats
• empty bins
• 60 1-gallon buckets of paint
• 4 2-gallon buckets of paint
• basket of rags
• table saw
• step ladder
• weight bench
• some sort of weight lifting gym thingy
• prehistoric treadmill
• dehumidifier
• puppy food
• kitty litter
• 2 huge stereo speakers
• 2 small stereo speakers
• file cabinet with all but top drawer inaccessible due to aforementioned bed frame
• American Girl horse
• bin of American Girl dolls, some without limbs
• wooden doll cradle painted a variety of colors
• bin of wooden toys for grandchildren we may never have
• 5 fans
• 3 window flower boxes
• window blinds that don't fit any of our windows
• about 347 paint can openers
• nasty paint rollers
• roller pans
• stack of nifty old license plates that never manage to get hung up
• basket of old bike helmets
• basket of baseball gloves/frisbees/deflated balls
• stack of burned cd's
• bird houses that have never been hung up
• contraption for ACA Homecoming fair
• bin of horse feed
• bin of ceramic supplies, including bucket of special water (soda ash solution)
• sheetrock mud, lots
• various vacuum cleaner hose nozzles
• 12 gallon Rigid wet/dry vac
• 7+ suitcases of various dimensions (some nested in others...thus uncountable)
• 3 bicycles, one missing front wheel
• 2 coolers
• piles of screws/nails
• hairbrushes
• bin of school supplies/loose leaf notebooks that nobody ever bothers so use because they always want new
• granola bars of unknown age
• container of ping pong balls
• funky cabinet
• stacks of plastic drawer storage things
• notebook binding machine
• bins of memorabilia for each family member
• Matt's old portfolio
• box upon box and bin upon bin of old business paperwork
• bin of Christmas decorations
• Christmas tree stand
• stack of old floor tiles from former house
• empty electronics boxes
• 3 televisions of unknown function
• 4 canvas folding chairs
• 1 beach chair
• badmitton net
• large, partially deflated exercise ball
• woodworking magazines
• folded dog crate
• old 60 count CD jukebox (non-functioning)
• car jack
• oil change bin
• auto dolly
• leaves
• bike racks for car
• mystery key
• bin of camping supplies
• router
• sander
• circular saw
• 2 drills
• tubes of caulk
• uncountable small cans of paint/stain/putty
• uncountable cans of spray paint
• bottles of motor oil
• bag of pink sheets with my grandmother's initials
• lumbar support cushion

That's not all. I just got tired and cold and unable to identify much of the rest. That's a lot of STUFF. We sound like hoarders. But, aside from a bin or two and the contents of the file cabinet (real estate) NONE of it is my MY stuff. What's a girl to do? And don't even ask me about the shed...

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