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.
LOL, no. But he takes his car to get washed very regularly, while I...do not.
Post by thejen626 on Sept 25, 2014 22:47:33 GMT -5
I actually swept mine today lol...
We moved in 6 months ago, so there's still boxes taking up 1/2 of the space. (I own a lot of books and our prior bookshelves were built ins, so all of my books are boxed until we can put some shelves in the new house.
But I wanted to make sure I could park my car inside before the heavy rain starts, so about 6 weeks ago I went out and tried to organize. Today I swept up the cheddar bunny crumbs on the floor and took pics of some strollers to list on Craigslist.
Umm no. I told H we need to sweep or blow the garage out because of the leaves. There are paint cans everywhere from the painters who painted the house before it was put on the market. I intend to clean it up but it's a 3 car garage, I'm the only one who parks in it, and I've got bigger fish to fry.
Post by litebright on Sept 25, 2014 23:09:03 GMT -5
It could use a good sweeping out right now. But that's about all we do on a regular basis. Major cleanings happen maybe 2-3 times a year. We're about due for our fall one, which consists of taming the chaotic array of ride-ons and outdoor toys so that we can fit one car in the garage for winter parking -- mine. DH's garage space is now taken up by his motorcycle.
We don't even have drywall up in our garage, just the bare beams with hooks and such on them. I would love to finish it so that it looked more neat.
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.
Yep. DH vacuums every few weeks. We haul everything out and do a major cleaning every fall. We're due right now. I think we'll repaint this year because the walls are looking a little yellow. We have a gravel drive so we tend to track a lot of dirt in. We're getting cement put in next week so hopefully that will help keep it clean.
We sweep it out every so often, and keep it from getting cluttered (I swear to God I am never parking my car outside because there's too much crap in the garage). That's about it.
DH does it all the time. More than he cleans the rest of the house. Kind of drives me crazy, but he smokes in the garage and leaves ashes and cigarette butts out there, so I do appreciate them being picked up on a regular basis.
We do a major clean twice a year and then every other month we'll sweep. We just did our major clean where we took everything out, swept and rehung all the tools, yard stuff, etc. Granted the next day there was new spider webs but it was nice to have it clean for a little.
kinda - we both acknowledge that it needs to be swept out like monthly to keep the debris out. There's some leaves and bug carcasses that are giving me the heebie jeebies. There's also not a TON of crap in there, so I think that helps. We've only been homeowners for 1 year now!
The previous homeowner really spiffed it up before he sold the house. He added in a wall of shelving for storage and re-did the floors in the classic garage blue with sparkle chips thrown in there. He left in that beadboard stuff so we can hang up lawn tools. It really helped the overall look.
Post by beefcheeks on Sept 26, 2014 10:20:55 GMT -5
DH uses the leaf blower a couple times a year and we sweep occasionally, but not like, moving shit around deep cleaning or anything. We have a squeegee thing and use that in the winter to clean up the melted snow/salt.
Post by ctrlaltdlt on Sept 26, 2014 10:53:21 GMT -5
We have a detached shed that's big enough to be a garage, but we don't park in it. What we have instead is a hoarders style setup with bins stacked to the ceiling, and lots of spiderwebs and lawn equipment. Our plan this weekend is to clean it out, sort everything and reorganize whatever's left over. I'm dreading the nests of spiders I know we'll find. Pray for me. #blessedwithspiderbabies
Usually in the fall and spring. We do a massive clean-out and donate all the crap that has sat there all year and we never use. We organize and sweep/hose it out. We do mini-clean ups if we get a lot of sand built up. That spells disaster when trying to get off of a motorcycle.
We park in two of the spots in our garage and the third was transformed into H's art room so it's usually pretty clean. The central vac is down there so I vacuum once a month.
DH can clean the garage whenever his heart desires. I think he vacuums it like twice a year. He tries to keep it tidy but it's pretty hard since it's used pretty much everyday for car repairs/wood working/etc.
I, in no way, would ever voluntarily clean out there too. I have a hard enough time keeping the house clean.
Post by bittybomb on Sept 26, 2014 11:51:36 GMT -5
It never even occurred to me to clean my garage. It is detached from the house and is 102 years old. I mean we try to clean it out twice a year to get it organized and tidy, but actually use cleaning products? Lol, no. Who has the time???
I could have written this exactly! Does your husband also dust his car?? DH does and it's so obnoxious.
LOL, no. But he takes his car to get washed very regularly, while I...do not.
Are we married to the same guy? H gets his car washed every Tuesday. He has a car wash membership. Going on Tuesday gets him the wheel cleaning upgrade for free.
When he was installing car seats a couple of years ago, he told me my car needed to get cleaned, but that he wouldn't take it in, because he didn't want them to think that HE'D let a car get that messy. LOL! Thanks H!
Post by lolobeth802 on Sept 27, 2014 6:34:11 GMT -5
We do. My husbands work ship is in there where we also park our cars and bikes etc. If we didn't shop vac it, there would be a constant film of sawdust. We don't like, scrub the floor or anything, but we sweep, vac the dust and webs etc.