Cleaning Out the Garage

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I did it!! It only took me 485 days to get unpacked since we moved into our new home. I know what you are thinking. Over a year to get unpacked??? Well, it wasn’t just unpacking, it was unpacking my life. When we moved into our new home, my parents brought over everything from their home that I had been storing there. We even cleaned out a small storage unit that we shared. When I say everything, I mean everything. Lots of old college books, notebooks, some high school stuff and even a box full of old report cards and projects from elementary school. As an adult, I have never been in a situation until now to get all my stuff in order. I was taking over half of our two car garage, and now it’s done. We have some more organizing to do in that space and are working on it as we speak. My parents gave us some heavy duty steel cabinets to store stuff in the garage and get it organized. I didn’t want to just shove everything into the attic, I wanted to go through everything and sort through it. We ended up with over 17 bags of trash, 4 boxes of old paperwork to shred, 10 boxes of recycled cardboard, numerous totes of stored (pictures, old letters, memorabilia) items, enough re-saleable stuff for a garage sale, a van load of donated items to charity, many repacked boxes and of course my items to put in my new house. Whew! I am glad it’s done and I feel lighter.

Written by Natalie Thomas, TQAS executive and business blog writer, and previous self storage renter. 

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