Morris Minor Owners Club

I aim to do it the other way round, keep what I want in the small box and get rid of the shed load. Not easy though !

You will never have enough space no matter how big your shed is. I know the problem well.

Ditto , feel sorry for the wife if/when I pass away...

Maybe I should do something about it beforehand...

John ;-)

I have had stuff for years and never used it, all this, well it might come in handy one day, has been my general excuse. If I do find it is needed years into the future, I’ll buy another one. Something else that often happens is having two or more of everything. I must have loads of 5/16 drills. It’s going to be easier to be organised with less. I’ve seen some garages with stuff thrown around like horse ———- in a farm yard, simply because there is too much. Of course it doesn’t worry everyone but I’m on a mission ! Whoever is left will only need a small skip when I’m gone. I’m breathing easier already !

Confession - Apart from my garage, 3 sheds, and a space behind the fence at the top of the garden that my dear wife knows about, I unbeknownst to her, rent a 40ft container about half a mile away. Being of a certain age, apart from my will, I write useful stuff in one of those 'Oh sh1t, I'm dead what now?' books you can buy and it's written in that about it, so technically she can't say she didn't know!

I'm loving the secret 40 foot container!

We have a large double garage with a very high roof so about 10 years ago I added a home-made "mezzanine" level. I didn't touch the roof structure at all and I built 2 rows of shelves down each side in between the rafters, the low shelf is very wide and the higher one quite narrow. That worked brilliantly for a few years, a place for everything and everything in its place. But you all know where this tale is heading. The shelves are now bulging, there is stuff stacked in front of them and there is more stuff stacked on top of that. Downstairs is the same, with stuff "temporarily" stacked against the side of the stairs ready to be taken upstairs and, erm, stored neatly. If I owned another garage it would be the same. If I owned a barn I would own more broken vehicles and machinery.

I mostly don't mind the mess but it is quite frustrating when you know you have a particular tool or gadget but not be able to find it.

Well I think you’ve said it, you mostly don’t mind the mess and I presume there are others, then this subject is of no concern.
I like to know what I’ve got and where it is, I think tidy, organised and less of it is the way to achieve this. We all live in different ways, if one is happy with their lifestyle and it doesn’t affect others then so be it. I’m not here to preach.