Sorry about all the posts, but we have been busy! On Friday, Peter and I spent the afternoon working in the garage while the kids slept and watched movies. I feel bad that we stuck the kids in front of the TV for a while, but we (well, mostly Peter) are tired of the atrocious mess in our garage! We can barely park our one car in it. I am planning on having a garage sale as soon as I get everything organized, so that will clear some of it out. But there are boxes in there that we haven't touched since we moved in here. Who knows what is in there! We have wanted some shelving and a work bench for a while now, and decided that it would be hard to move forward without it. We bought some basic shelving at Ikea for the lighter items. We also have a steel shelf for the heavy items and we'll get more of those sometime later. Peter also bought some 2x4s to make himself a workbench. The pictures are lousy- I finally gave up taking pictures and just got to work instead. Here are the Ikea shelves...there are three of these connected, plus an extension on one of them. It is huge!
We were both so tired the next day; our hands are ripped up and bruised. Sorry to be wimpy, but we don't do this kind of stuff that often, I guess. I am super excited to get organized though. It was one of my New Year's Resolutions and I have made some progress, but this will really help me out.I am also in the middle of redoing my 72-hour kit. I have the basic food, but I realized when I dug the rest of our kit out of the garage, that I hadn't updated it since Jonah was a baby! So I have to redo the clothing and baby items, I guess. It is going to be a lot harder of a project than I first thought. Packing for five is a lot harder than packing for three! Plus, there are a few things I need to add, including bigger purchases like a wind-up radio and those kinds of things. So hopefully I'll get this project done soon so it won't be nagging at me too long!
3 comments:
That is awesome that you are getting your garage organized. Kevin and I have been working on ours. Kevin wants to be able to park his car in there since it will be getting cold soon (my van already has a spot in the garage Ü). It will be nice when we have it all done. I think it will take us a while to go through everything. We have many boxes that are really old that are most likely full of stuff we can get rid of. Good luck on your project.
Well, good for you. We all have those projects that we say we'll get to, but too often it never happens or we wait until it's way past due.
Getting organized is the best thing ever. It makes you feel so good. I hope your hands heal quickly. Good luck with reorganizing your 72 hour kits. It is more complicated with a family of 5.
BTW- Jonah's scripture was awesome.
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