Hey guys, what do you do with your junk? Well not junk, but that stuff that you KNOW you will need someday, but you got no place to put it? It was junk haulin' day at work today and my pile of floorboard material was loaded on a dump truck and, well, probably sold for cheap. I been hiding an old fan shroud, but i gotta find a real good hiding place, or that will be gone to. tc
gotta two story shop, last year decided to clean out the upstaires, had a damn big dumbster hauled out , throw away shit been stored for 20 years , no iron just junk from upstairs, broke VCR's, old furniture , just junk, hauled off 3000 pounds of left over shit! Damn....... needed some of it the next day. Oh well, new collection is started
i build another shed,bye another tarp,stack and pack,whatever it takes never know when you could use some of that old junk. i have a disease can't throw shit away.later rob south omaha turds
I got a 1600 square foot shop. been here for 10 years. 3 years ago I thought better get rid of some of this crap in case I ever need to move. sold like 5 grand worth of car junk on ebay before I even knew what happened. I never throw anything away without listing it first. sold all my bikes, my pedal cars... there is almost room to move in here now.
There is a big difference between Stuff and junk. junk comes from thing that were bought for use inside the home directly related to domesticated living. When it becomes inoperable or outdated it becomes junk and thereby is ready (someday) for the dump. Stuff is derived from any type of transportation or mechanical device related to transportation and/or is repair. It is never, never ready for the dump. It may be used, sold, traded, or given away. Storage for stuff is anywhere that you can find to put it and hopefully remember where that place is.
Well, when I was living in Tennessee I just put it in my yard. People were always coming by "offering what they got" to buy stuff... Now I live in Phoenix AZ and boy can people get uptighty whitey. Can't put shit anywhere, good thing I'm in a rental for now. I've gotta get somewhere without a HOA. HOA suck ass...
I think i may have officially run out of room. I was hauling O.S.B. cutoffs from work to my brothers house today ( I can't put anymore at my place) and I realised the '65 Mustang rear end in the bed of my truck has been there for more than two months. I don't have anywhere else to put it and i can't get rid of it......
I bought the house next door 22x41 2 story on a half acre built a 24x40 shop and gutted the first floor of the house a total of 8 garage bays on that property and the whole upstairs for storage and its stuffed Caveman
I have storage trusses all the way down my 3.5 garage that I added last year for junk and it's getting full already!
i was wondering the same thing........ i see these well kept garages and think, "how do they do it!!!???" i don't know what to do but i sure know i don't like having my garage so full i can't build in it...... a buddy of mine says "they" should make a pill to cure pack-rat syndrome!
Everything "junk" that goes in my barn, has an expiration date, that way I always have room for fresh junk.
First off, if you keep your parts where other human beings have access to them, then ANYTHING is liable to happen!!!! Trust no one. That being said, sometimes you will have to take a chance on leaving your stuff where someone else can get to it. If you leave your stuff with a friend over at their place, you stand a far better chance of retaining it than if you leave it at your place of work where people don't care about your projects or dreams. Find another car buddy to help you store. And reciprocate the favor however you are able.
I get crates from Mayflower and when I get them full I just seem to forget what is in them. I have a few of them now.
When I moved to Georgia from Florida, I had the same problem. A friend of mine said it perfectly: "What do you do with stuff that's too good to throw away, but not good enough to keep?" That is indeed the question. I gave away a ton of shit, threw away a bunch more, and moved the rest. When I got up here, I started my own monthly swap meet to get rid of the stuff that was good enough to keep, but I wouldn't use it! Seriously, maximize your shop storage. I have a full wall of industrustrial shelves. One shelf is really short, so only intakes and valve covers fit on it--because you usually never set anything on an intake or valve cover, so it takes up dead space on your shelves. And when I moved, I bought a couple dozen plastic tote boxes with the clamshell lids, and tailored most of my shelves to fit those boxes. Load the boxes up and stick them on a shelf. Brad
I get rid of shit with reckless abandon every now and then. Give it away to friends and sometimes total strangers. I have a two car shop and I like it minimal so it stays efficient. I am tight with tools, but car shit comes and goes.
a couple of ideas, mostly for those in cities where zoning and setback rules on small lots are a concern. you can't build a permanant structure, but that doesn't mean you cant build something. a shed built on 4x4 skids isn't a permanant structure. so you can get away with having it much closer to a property line than an actual building could be. when i lived in a fairly run down hood, i used a steel shipping crate as a storage shed, i got it from the machine shop i work at, a brand new cnc machine was shipped from japan in a ten foot square box, made of a heavy tube base, with light steel tube walls with 22 gauge galvanized steel skin. it was a freebie. i packed a ton of parts into that shed! carports also are not permanant structures. close them off with a few sheets of currugated steel on the sides, frame in a door that can be locked and you have some more secure storage. having a proper place for things helps. i don't have much garage space, so i try to keep nothing in there but tools and a few parts for the cars that are being worked on. the attic of the garage and a 8x16 or so shed are dry storage for most parts. some stuff stays outside in discrete spots, axles, etc. fences do wonders. anything shiney or just neat, mag wheels, dressup or speed parts, etc. are in the house keeping me company while i'm relaxin.
I have a half an 8 car barn I rent for just stuff, I have a 10' x 16' shed in the back yard, mostly junk and a 16' x 30' garage that has only seen a driveable car in it about 3 times... the days after I organized the junk, mixed with stuff.
I priced sheds and enclosed trailers....too expensive. Bought this on eBay for a third the cost of those and I can use it for storage, drive it to swap meets, and the city can't do squat as long as it's licensed. 15 feet long, 8 feet wide, and it has the overhang. I'll add 2 layers of shelving down both sides and still have room for one of the project cars.
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