Thread: Garages filled with junk

I can't believe some people fill their garages with junk, not even room for one car. The people next door to me have a one car garage but I've never seen them put the car in there, not even during a snowstorm.

A neighbor where my GF lives has a one car garage but the new car sits outside in the driveway every day. They only use the garage door opener to walk in and out of the house thru the attached garage with a junk scattered around inside.

If you've got that much junk it's time to get a dumpster and have some of that crap hauled away.

I know some people have their own business and need to store equipment in the garage. I get that. For some people it's the only place they can store certain things, but in most cases it's just a bunch of junk.

It's really bad when someone has an old car taking up space in the garage that they are going to rebuild someday. It usually ends up getting hauled away to a junkyard someday when they decide to move to a different house.

I can't believe how some people get bent out of shape when some neighbor chooses to use his own personal space differently than they would.

It's their garage. By your own statements, they keep the door closed. None of your business.

I tend to agree with jayn_j, as long as I don't have to look at it! Now if they keep their door open and I have to look at a trash mound exploding out of the garage that is a different story. We had a renter in my neighborhood last year that had so much junk in his garage that he couldn't even shut the door half the time. We had to explain that if he didn't shut the door we'd be calling a service to haul his junk away (HOA rules thank god). It was an eye sore. Luckily he got evicted as his land lord wasn't happy either.

Originally Posted by jayn_j

I can't believe how some people get bent out of shape when some neighbor chooses to use his own personal space differently than they would.

It's their garage. By your own statements, they keep the door closed. None of your business.

+1

I can't believe you guys got so uptight.

You must have garages filled with junk.

I also can't believe an HOA can legally have a law that says they can clean out a person's garage if the door is left open a lot and they have a lot of junk inside.

Is this the pot calling the kettle black!!!!

Originally Posted by Bobby

Is this the pot calling the kettle black!!!!

Yep, that's how it works.
I have a garage full of junk so I start a thread complaining about people that have a garage full of junk.

I was speaking specifically about the uptight statement. You started this thread with this: "I can't believe some people fill their garages with junk, not even room for one car." That sounds pretty uptight to me.....

I have a one car attached garage that's full of lawn tools & "junk." My wife and I both park in the driveway and we get plenty of snow.

We don't have a huge house and we hardly have any storage. The attic is the master bedroom and most of the basement is a finished family room. I'd rather my clutter be banished to the garage than inside my house.