Monday morning I decided to tackle cleaning out the garage. It needed a thorough going-over and an organizational overhaul. Ooooh, my favorite kind! :) So, every morning this week, while Henry napped and the kids occupied themselves with self-serve snacks, Netflix and general play, I went through everything in the garage and found a place for each little last screw and bolt. It took me every morning all week, but I finally finished it Friday. The wood shop is now organized too, with the whole 30+ drawers underneath the workbench labeled and organized (all our tools used to be in bins scattered all around the shop and now they're put away in the built-in drawers that were already here when we bought the house). I vacuumed out each drawer and shelf, swept multiple times, rearranged bikes and tools, moved wood, emptied a couple dozen bins of tools, cleaned out lots of old metal pipes from the rafters (which a scrap-metal collector came and picked up), and sold a metal shelf that didn't suit my needs. It was good for my sanity too, as we're at the halfway point of Summer and I'm already feeling the need to get my kids back in school.
