THE PURGE

IT HAS BEGUN!!!
     We are currently organizing our garage. Partially because the area was full of stuff with little more than a path out the main door, and partially because it is that time of year again. To me, Spring equals cleaning which also means yard sale! In my yearly years our family would have a major yard sale each spring, but as I got older I have tended towards donating rather than selling. Yard sales are hard work. Not only do you need to collect the items you wish to sell, you need to clean them and showcase them to advantage in order to make money. Anything we don't sell is going straight to donate and not back into our house (or garage).
     The PURGE  began as a simple clean out with areas marked for sell, donate, keep and garbage, like all good organizers tell you to do. As we pulled everything out of the space we decided to renovate! Nothing major. We had a good number of the items already. The major project, the one that we hate above all others, is painting and we have painted almost everything; shelves and walls, more shelves and more walls. The walls are old and haven't been painted since they were put up so they have not been easy to paint. We decided to just use Kiltz primer on everything and call it done. White equals clean. Right?
    But of course we couldn't stop there. We have, for some time, wanted to convert the garage into a den, really a large craft room. We are unable to afford something that big right now, but we already have the modular shelving units fro IKEA (my favorite store), countertops that we used as desks during my teenage years, and a bunch of rolling plastic bins. Not to mentions the numerous tubs full of craft supplies that haven't seen the light of day in almost a decade. Well, as you can guess, a job we thought might take three or four days has taken a week and a half and we are still not done, thought our energy only lasted a few days into the project.
    We started saying, "well if we are going to do this... we should do that too, and if we are going to do that... then we need to do this first..." And so on. We've filled a large shed, cleaned out the small one, have a pile to sell that looks like a small mountain and the garage still isn't put back together.

It may not look it, but there is organized chaos. These pictures are a few days old, though I can't say that it is looking any better.  I can not wait for this too be over... But for now...

   The PURGE continues!