Do you clean your garage?

[emsumm]

Not clean out, but actually clean? I drive by houses in our neighborhood and their garages look so spotless. Ours has tools and stuff with sawdust, leaves that blow in, cobwebs, etc. I'd like it to be cleaner but I barely know where to start.

[agnes]

hahahahaha

No.

[emsumm]

Sept 25, 2014 19:45:39 GMT -5 @booby said:

yep - we vacuum 1x per month. it is so much better that way.

i make H do it.

Ooh. That's a good idea. We do have a shop vac. I kind of want to wash the walls but I realize that's crazy.

[imhischeeseburger]

We have a two car garage and we can't even fit one car in there right now. It's full with DH's crap and all his military gear. Soo much gear.

[picaflora]

The one at the rental we just moved into is nice and spotless. It also has great lighting, finished walls, and no dark corners. If DH junks it up, he will absolutely be cleaning it out.

The garage at the home we own... wasn't in the cleanest state when we moved in. It's been swept out a number of times, but the spiderwebs were a never-ending battle.

[soozy87]

Yeah, I just did the other day. I sweep it out so we don't track dirt in with us.

[angelaa73]

I could not laugh louder even if I wanted to

[emsumm]

Sept 25, 2014 19:54:40 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

I could not laugh louder even if I wanted to

I enjoy tidiness!!!

[twodogsandababy]

Sept 25, 2014 19:57:51 GMT -5 jamie.1022 said:

I sweep the steps leading into the house and H uses the leaf blower to blow dirt, leaves, etc outside.

This is what we do too, every couple months I organize the work bench and storage.

[lpcats]

I don't have a garage, but growing up my father was crazy and painted and put up a wallpaper border in the garage. Again, he was crazy.

[stellas]

No. It's actually to the point that I'm embarrassed when people see it. It's a 2 car garage and we put 2 cars in it, but it's filthy. We've swept it out once in 7 years.

[mmmomof2]

DH will sweep it a few times per year, but that's it.

[KaraOrNot]

Yes, we keep it fairly clean. We walk through the garage to get into the house, so there is incentive to keep it somewhat clean.

[nomad100]

This is on the list foe this weekend. Right now it is so filled with crap we park outside. Lumber, boxes, gardening stuff, you name it.

Once we get the crap under control, we are good about sweeping it out every couple of weeks.

Summers are just hard because it is "project time" so we have all our power tools and stuff in there.

[wannabe]

Yes. The garage is the hub's domain, and he's so damn anal that all the shit in there is perfectly organized and always clean. Too bad his wife isn't that good at it inside the house.

[emsumm]

We have a spot by the door where the wall/paint is peeling really badly. I would sand and paint over it but it's all warped and god knows if there's lead. How do I fix it?

[emsumm]

Sept 25, 2014 20:15:01 GMT -5 wannabe said:

Yes. The garage is the hub's domain, and he's so damn anal that all the shit in there is perfectly organized and always clean. Too bad his wife isn't that good at it inside the house.

Unnnnh. Why didn't I marry someone like this?

[eb777888]

I see that when driving by houses and am envious. Our garage is pretty clean, it's not a shithole or anything but I do love those super neat, painted garages where everything is neatly hung on the wall.

[revolution]

Oh, our garage annoys the shit out of me. DH has shit everywhere. Hate. It is so messy and unorganized. It drives me nuts. It embarrasses me and I try to keep the door shut.

[jenna]

H will tidy it up, and use the leaf blower and/or sweep. that's about it.

[ralphlauren]

LOFuckingL


No way.


We have a clean and tidy garage but we do clean and scrub the walls. OMG

[revolution]

Sept 25, 2014 20:15:01 GMT -5 wannabe said:

Yes. The garage is the hub's domain, and he's so damn anal that all the shit in there is perfectly organized and always clean. Too bad his wife isn't that good at it inside the house.

I am so completely jealous

[cereal K]

Sept 25, 2014 20:15:01 GMT -5 wannabe said:

Yes. The garage is the hub's domain, and he's so damn anal that all the shit in there is perfectly organized and always clean. Too bad his wife isn't that good at it inside the house.

My H is like this too. 

Well, when he's in the middle of a project, it gets messy/crazy, but then he gets nuts and has to reorganize and clean everything. 

In the winter, he freaks about the ice/salt that gets tracked in from our tires. 

[isabel]

We swept it a month or two ago. It looks significantly cleaner. At some point I will do that again, but we're still sort of in the moving in stage.

[pantsparty]

H keeps our garage pristine. He has a utility vacuum I call "the GUVner" for cars and the driveway, a power washer, and a shop vac. His OCDness benefits us both, LOL. We have some storage items there, but we park all our cars in the garage. H hates garages used as storage units.

[Norticprincess]

It gets swept out. Half of it is filled with flooring at the moment (well for the past 3 years) DH gets to park in the driveway until my new floors are all in.

[texassmith]

I just swept it out today. I also really want to patch some holes in the drywall and give it a nice fresh coat of white paint. That will happen exactly never. Or until I pay someone to do it, lol.

[boston340]

Sept 25, 2014 20:15:01 GMT -5 wannabe said:

Yes. The garage is the hub's domain, and he's so damn anal that all the shit in there is perfectly organized and always clean. Too bad his wife isn't that good at it inside the house.

I could have written this exactly! Does your husband also dust his car?? DH does and it's so obnoxious.

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Sept 25, 2014 19:54:40 GMT -5 angelaa73 said:

I could not laugh louder even if I wanted to

This.

[lilac05]

We're usually decent about keeping it swept, but it's currently a giant mess of bicycles, strollers, a power wheel, a wagon, paint cans & closet junk from when our basement flooded, etc. Summer is hard on our garage.

It would probably have been on our list for this weekend, but H threw his back out...so I'm in survival mode instead!