Cleaned up the shop today

---- and when you get yours clean,,, well ,,, ah,,, do you want to clean mine????

you wanna help me clean Darrel's Quonset up north? should be fun!

Father in law died and I have been cleaning up his place.. Lived there for 50 years and NEVER put anything away, NEVER threw anything away, NEVER fixed any tools that broke.  Got 16 ball and claw hammers... 2 are usable. Got 3 sledge hammers,..1 is usable.  Have nails in 6 boxes, 12 coffee cans, 4 mason jars, and two old socks... I have been at this a MONTH... Have burned probably 5 cubic yards of stuff... We took 3 truck loads of cloths / dishers/ bed covers/ western books/  etc to the Help Center .....Just about done.

Edited by steve(ill) - 22 Dec 2019 at 8:38am

Wowza that sounds like a lot of headache and backache. Wouldn't want to be in that situation no way no how in more ways than one.

With my yellow monster holding center stage my shop is not seeing much cleaning. Will get there at some point then I too have to de-foul the barn with the parts Donor within.

i guess i got off easy.  we make the garage a play room for the grand daughter for summertime play.  i do occasionally work on a vehicle, gotta charge the battery in her silverado ride in!

I have several sets of casters. One project is to make a rolling cart for the grease bucket and hose set I picked up at auction. Put up some brackets to hang weld cables and keep em off the floor.

Spent about all day, puttin up a bolt bin, I bought at an Auction, Saturday...  Hadda empty it out, to lessen the weight, so's I could lift it, up on the wall.  Then Hadda re-sort alla them metric bolts, that came in it, man whatta job!  had 2 kinds of 10 mm bolts, fine thread and coarse.  Meant checking every nut, to see which bolt it fit!  all time low, on my list of likes...

Garage has been done since Thanksgiving. Now come the beginning of May the house gets it's spring cleaning. It's a life cycle.

Edited by chaskaduo - 24 Dec 2019 at 7:45am

gosh...cleaning out a parents place would be fun for me...get to find all kinds of treasures! don't hafta clean out a garage here cuz I ain't gots one...now...my machine shed is another story! lol

Mom and dad have been gone for 14 years and there is still stuff at the farm that I don't know what to do with. Maybe should have got the wife to help as she has no emotional attachment to anything and that includes me. I'm sure when I'm gone it will take her maybe a week to sell all my stuff and donate the rest. 😆

hated cleaning out Grandmother's house and Dad's estate stuff. Really had no purpose for much of it so donated A LOT away. What would not be acceptable tried first to sell then went to dumpster, maybe the boys at the dump needed some presents.

Wife is OVERLY emotionally attached to her Mom's and Dad's stuff, Gus been gone 12 years now, Jess close to six, they really do not care what happens to their excess collections of nothing but the wife gets all pizzy, "That was Mom's" or "Dad would never throw that out". Sorry to say much is just trash and junk, nothing of any real value where even the grandkids said NO Thanks. Broken Tools, Left Over kitchen mechanisms worn slick not even intrinsic values anymore. Clothes were given to Homeless and many of them just threw away as just trash. Have six moving boxes of Nothing to be rid of as cleaned the rest out. Three years ago fought the tears away as the wife bawled her eyes out burning her Dad's payroll records of fifty years, he had Saved EVERY Slip of paper he ever got from a company. BOXES of stuff as forty year old furniture bills that the furnishings were LONG Gone, repair receipts for tires or oil changes from Thirty plus years, cancelled checks since they were married, was NOT good.