Baldo by Hector D. Cantú and Carlos Castellanos for May 08, 2022

And how, pray tell, are you going to come up with the money for building said second garage, Baldo?

Sergio: “Someday Baldo, that will all be yours….”

Where’s Baldo’s project Impala? I thought it was there in the driveway.

As a home inspector I can verify this 100%

Hey! What’s my garage doing in the comics!?!

Looks like my neighbors garage

New one will fill up just as fast.

fusilier

James 2:24

That’s why when I built my house I added an extra bay to my garage.

Since convincing family to get rid of stuff that has been buried and unseen for over a decade is impossible it might be easier to convince the HOA and local authorities and bank to let you build but I think this calls for a rousing chorus of “To dream the impossible dream”.

Holy crap!!!

Get a skinnier car or a motorcycle, Sergio.

¡FELIZ DÍA DE LA MADRE!

never understood why folks fill the garage up with stuff to leave the vehicle outside!!!

wow – i figured at least Baldo would do a Mother’s Day comic. :(

According to various surveys, only 66-75% of residential garages actually have cars [or trucks] parked in them. That means at least one out of every four garages is so full of junk that there’s no room for a car. The interesting thing is, that junk is seldom worth more than a small fraction of what their cars are. Ya gotta love human foibles!

Cleaning out the garage you have now, Baldo, would be faster and far less expensive.

People park their cars in the driveway and complain when thieves break into their car. They store junk in their garages.

Time to rent a dumpster. Makes it easy to get rid of the stuff you don’t need anymore.

Where I live, almost everyone has a least two two-car garages

And when the second garage is full of junk, we can just build a third, and then a fourth . . .

He’s not exactly seeing the big picture here, is he?

Don’t bother building another garage, you’ll just fill it up with junk too!

The key is to always park in the garage.

Been there, done that (more or less)

Baldo hasn’t yet learned about McGee’s Law:

Clutter Expands to fill all available Garage.

Starting maybe a year ago, my mom and older sister led the charge on minimizing in the house. I was scared at first, and it is hard to let go of things, but once you do, it’s quite freeing.

A couple of years ago we had to go through the family home (in honesty one of my sisters and her family did the vast majority of the work) as mom had to move to assisted living. The family moved into the house in 1959 so a lot of stuff accumulated over the decades.

When I replied to my sister’s call to get my stuff out I was surprised how little I had there. Much of our toys had been destroyed in the basement by Hurricane Sandy and the basement was empty and most of my childhood books were down there and gone. Luckily a couple of decades ago husband and I had brought my HO trains to our house for our layout here. My stuff was in a closet in what was on and off my bedroom. Then my sister called again – I had forgotten that I shared a different bedroom with our baby sister (now in her 50s) for awhile and had not thought to check same – so that was boxed up for me (one box) and we picked it up – most interesting thing in it was the instruction manual for the mainframe computer I learned to program FORTRAN for (with punch cards) while in high school.

I had a list of 5 things I was looking to find. I found 2 of them on my trip to pick stuff up. The item I really wanted I had tried to find when we got married in the late 1970s and since when there and had not been able to find. We were back in the house a few times in getting it ready to be sold and looked for the missing item and had given up finding up it. Then my sister asked us to be there when a thrift shop came to take what they wanted (not for profit shop) and as I showed the fellow the stuff in the second master bedroom I saw stacks of fabric items (mostly bedding) on the floor. Something drew me to one pile of bed linens and I stuck in my hand partway down – something guiding my hand. And there it was!! The tablecloth I embroidered when I was in high school. Never will be sure what found the exact spot in the exact pile for me to find it.

Getting rid of stuff from our current house is not easy. I used take stuff to donate when husband was still working other than in the house – only my stuff, not his or joint stuff. Then he quit his job and has been home all the time. He did not grow up in a house where things were donated (luckily HIS sister dealt with most of their family house and kept about 90% of it, including furniture – putting it into paid storage) so he would get upset when I was said I was doing so. I would pack stuff and take it with me when I went out the one day a month that was not for work – went to my embroidery chapter – and would drop it off for donation. Last time I was able to do that was Sept 2018 as when I went again in December the Goodwill location had closed and I had started going there when the Salvation Army location closed. Since then I have not really been out alone and have no idea where to take stuff to donate.

I would say that of the household stuff that is not the needed items (needed items being furniture, bedding, towels and the like) about 70% or more is his and about 10% is joint stuff so there is not much I can get rid of.

I NEVER have insufficient space in the garage for my car.The guy next door did a knock down rebuild when he bought the house. He has a double garage but his two cars and work truck have NEVER been in the garage