workinforwood
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You might think your garage is a mess, but that's only because you haven't seen mine! 
This is actually after I have spent 1.5 days...about 12 hrs cleaning it. Yes, it looks like a store. My wife is a major couponaholic. She buys all this stuff for pennies on the dollar, or for free and more often they pay her to take it. It's insane. It is only about 5 months of accumulation too. I have been out there cleaning and organizing because she had to work very late yesterday and so there was no way for her to see any evidence of what I have done even to this minute. The cleaning and organizing, although it may look like I have done nothing to you, is my Mothers day gift to her. I also bought two wire rack shelving units and wheels and assembled them, plus I cut plywood to put on the shelves, as well as I put plywood on most of the already existing shelves. These shelves are really great because they are affordable and transportable, but becuase they are wire, if you put little things like lets just say a container of deoderant..well it falls over on the shelf, so the wood fixes all that. I completely stocked 2 shelving units and partially stocked a few others. I was mostly working on shampoo items. It's the worst for her because it's heavy stuff to move around. I was sorting it all by brand too. But I kept running out of room, like I would make 4 rows of Pert, then I'd open another box and dang it if it wasn't a bunch of pert or whatever else. That one big square rack at the back is all shampoo, with 30x30 shelves...I bet there is over 2000 bottles of shampoo on that rack. I had to start on the next rack, and it is 26x48 and I have a shelf and a half full of shampoo on that too, so I wouldn't be surprised if I stocked 4-5000 bottles of shampoo today! There is still that huge pile of boxes and crates and I know there will be more shampoo in some of them. I have crates and boxes full of tampon's and bandaids. I have enough of that stuff to handle the war on Afganistan. The photo's aren't as good as they could be. I took them with my camera but it has the macro lens on it. After a few weeks or more, I'll swap out lenses so ya'll can see the real scope of her insanity. Although it's crazy, once everything is cleaned and organized, she will be selling it all in June. She will make enough money off this garage sale to fly us all <her,me and kids..not you guys>, to florida for a week of vacation and have money left over. She has a sign she will put out on the street called "sale not to miss", and that is it, no address nothin. When she puts out that sign, traffic will be backed up for several blocks because everyone in 45 miles of here knows what it means. A few people will drive by early and see the sign, then they will turn around. They will be on their cell phone as they pull in, and as they shop. The people they call will then be on their phone calling people and within an hour it will be pandemonium! If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe it.
This is actually after I have spent 1.5 days...about 12 hrs cleaning it. Yes, it looks like a store. My wife is a major couponaholic. She buys all this stuff for pennies on the dollar, or for free and more often they pay her to take it. It's insane. It is only about 5 months of accumulation too. I have been out there cleaning and organizing because she had to work very late yesterday and so there was no way for her to see any evidence of what I have done even to this minute. The cleaning and organizing, although it may look like I have done nothing to you, is my Mothers day gift to her. I also bought two wire rack shelving units and wheels and assembled them, plus I cut plywood to put on the shelves, as well as I put plywood on most of the already existing shelves. These shelves are really great because they are affordable and transportable, but becuase they are wire, if you put little things like lets just say a container of deoderant..well it falls over on the shelf, so the wood fixes all that. I completely stocked 2 shelving units and partially stocked a few others. I was mostly working on shampoo items. It's the worst for her because it's heavy stuff to move around. I was sorting it all by brand too. But I kept running out of room, like I would make 4 rows of Pert, then I'd open another box and dang it if it wasn't a bunch of pert or whatever else. That one big square rack at the back is all shampoo, with 30x30 shelves...I bet there is over 2000 bottles of shampoo on that rack. I had to start on the next rack, and it is 26x48 and I have a shelf and a half full of shampoo on that too, so I wouldn't be surprised if I stocked 4-5000 bottles of shampoo today! There is still that huge pile of boxes and crates and I know there will be more shampoo in some of them. I have crates and boxes full of tampon's and bandaids. I have enough of that stuff to handle the war on Afganistan. The photo's aren't as good as they could be. I took them with my camera but it has the macro lens on it. After a few weeks or more, I'll swap out lenses so ya'll can see the real scope of her insanity. Although it's crazy, once everything is cleaned and organized, she will be selling it all in June. She will make enough money off this garage sale to fly us all <her,me and kids..not you guys>, to florida for a week of vacation and have money left over. She has a sign she will put out on the street called "sale not to miss", and that is it, no address nothin. When she puts out that sign, traffic will be backed up for several blocks because everyone in 45 miles of here knows what it means. A few people will drive by early and see the sign, then they will turn around. They will be on their cell phone as they pull in, and as they shop. The people they call will then be on their phone calling people and within an hour it will be pandemonium! If I didn't see it, I wouldn't believe it.
