Garage After.....I'm Tired.....I'm Obsessed...

 I won't say that I was excited to get the entire garage for myself

 That would be putting it too lightly.....I was like a kid in a candy store.....

a very dirty, filthy, buggy candy store, but it was all mine.

What a pitiful life I have when that excites me.....get a life Jana, 

(I also talk to myself)

My dog Todd is amazed he can now see the floor.   A side note...do you see all the carpet, well being the cheapskate that I am, I went to the carpeting store and asked for free scraps.
I got a 12' x 12' piece of carpet.......FREE.

I never dreamed that big of a piece would be considered "scrap".  

 I started off be cleaning off every cabinet, one at a time.  I then cleaned it and painted.  I ended up painting the ENTIRE garage, one shelf/cabinet and wall at a time. 

 I then started in on the slow ( and I do mean slow) process of organizing.  

I kept telling myself no one else was going to do this for me....

Thru the entire process no one ever wanted to help me,
 I know this probably shocks you,  it did me.....NOT.  

 This is all my "taking meals to the field" section.  I bet not many of you have or need this section....

Also a few large cookers.

 After I got things organized into sections I went thru the process of labeling EVERYTHING.

This took a lot longer than I thought it would, but was well worth the time. 

 I put on a new countertop, (I got lucky and found one that matched what I have in my house)

I then added the pegboard to the back, got baskets and hooks for it.  I then went shopping for the tools I use around the house.  

It is now a joke around here that if it is a "yellow" tool it is mine, HANDS OFF.

 On the opposite side I added 2 large pegboards and put all my gardening tools and added 2 magnetic strips to hang small tools on to make it quick and easy to get to.

This was a purchase I made for our "sport" equipment.  That is a joke, we really don't have much, but what little we do have I couldn't figure out how to store, and then I found this shelving unit and it was perfect and it fit where I wanted it to go.
See the folding chairs....yes that is sporting equipment to me and Randy....
I added this note just to see if anyone is actually reading this stuff. 

Another section is my craft and miscellaneous section.   I already had these tubs, but I emptied each one and went thru, organized and labeled them. 

This was my spring project and now that it is thru I am so glad I did it...
and yes Randy is off limits now. LOL

P.S.  No WD40 can, but lots of labels, containers and baskets.

Also, an added note, I have had one viewer who wants a "challenge" to see your garage photos, so if you have some let me know and I would love to see them.  I have no life can you tell.

Thanks for visiting my part of the country,

Jana 

My Garage...the Before

 This is a little quick "update" on MY garage in case you might have missed my earlier blog on it, 

(it's called "my inheritance")

 This is how the garage looked when my husband used it.  He now has a barn and so I get all this....

lucky me, I know.

 I am just showing some pictures today so that when I give an update tomorrow

 you will appreciate me....... I know how pitiful am I, wanting your approval.

Yes, I got the mess, oil stains, bugs (this was a picture AFTER I had already cleaned some on it)

Tomorrow I will give the after, really could it get any worse?

Thanks for visiting my part of the country,

Jana

Basket Labeling

 I know...here I go again, but what can I say, I don't want to stop now... I'm on a roll.  Anyway this is what I used to label my baskets.  The left is zip ties and the right is "badge" holders.  I got these at my favorite boutique...Walmart (for those of you who don't live around here, it is a all in one shopping center).  They were cheap, and all that ya need to do is print out your labels on card stock, cut and put in the plastic badge holders.  The great thing is you can wipe them off and change them anytime you change what is in the basket.  

I started out in my garage because I couldn't remember what was in each basket....

getting old stinks.

 So much easier than pulling down all the baskets until I finally got go my sunglasses......

deep down I'm lazy.

I have LOTS of family pictures and can't always put them all out at once, so I rotate them.

This made it super easy to find them.

I also love games and labeled these baskets.  I have a lot of baskets in my house, 

you probably guessed that by now. 

 I bet your getting the idea by now and maybe getting sick (no pun intended here) of my ideas.

Anyway....

Thanks for visiting my part of the country

Jana

Kayla's All-in-One Board

 Here is a few of the supplies Kayla used to make the board.  She bought several black frames and some shelf liner in yellow, some black clips and command strips to hang it on her door with.

She painted a board black to put in the largest frame and glued down the shelf liner with some elmers glue.  Her kitchen is in black and yellow.  She didn't need to paint the board, but there are holes in the shelf liner and she wanted it to show thru black rather than the wood color.

She printed out her "Daily, Weekly and Monthly" cleaning schedule and put down some decorative paper in the frame, then taped down her schedule inside the glass frame.

This is for her weekly menu and a to do list.  

She created these on her computer and then just printed them out and put them in frames.

Sorry for my reflection in these photos........Cheese!!!

She also did this for her monthly calendar.  She can now just write on the glass for her calendar, menu and cleaning then just wipe off when she is ready to start over.....pretty clever.

 She made this out of a cardboard box.  Just decorated with vinyl, paper and ribbon, 

then just adhere to the board.

This is her final project to hang on her pantry door in her kitchen.  The clips she is using for a grocery shopping list and the other one is for her receipts she needs to keep track of.   Sorry I cut off part of the black frame, but I think you can get the idea.
P.S. Large frame is 24 x 30.

Pretty Cute and organized Kayla......

Thanks for visiting my part of the country

Jana

My "Baking Center"

This is what I am calling my "baking center".  For years I have had most of my ingredients for making cakes, cookies etc. located in one central location.  I have my mixer and more important my TV (I never want to miss my favorite shows) right below so that it makes it so easy to mix up any dish I want.

I (translation, my daughter) printed out labels for all of my "supplies".  I always have had them labeled, but it was time for an update.   

We printed the labels out on the sheets so that we could cut each label the size we wanted it to be.
  

Making the font large makes it easy for an ol' lady to read.

I don't like to leave flour, sugar and all the other things in bags, it doesn't work well for me. 

 I am way to messy for that.  Also this way I can easily tell if I am out of something.

These containers are "Lock 'n Lock" and they have worked out well for me.

Brown sugar has always stayed soft, love that.

 I also like to leave measuring cups in with the ones I use over and over, it makes it fast.

Here is the finished cabinet.  

Thanks for visiting my Baking Center in my part of the country

and now I feel like a cookie, or two, three.

Jana

Organized Hoarding

Organized Hoarding....Talk about an oxymoron.
 I have heard it said that admitting a problem is the first step in healing, so here goes,

 I'm a  organized hoarder.  There I said it........

See how all of these recipes are in a neat folder, labeled and organized.  

 Unfortunately that leads to this.  I had all of this in 2 cabinets.....neat and organized, just a lot of it.

 Here is a cookbook I have had since 1974.......38 years ago..........I don't know if I have EVER cooked out of it.....I don't want to throw it away now, it's an antique.  It might have how to cook wild possum while your out on the prairie, you never know when it could come in handy.

 This is my give away/trash/donate pile.  The trash bag is full of my organized recipes that were all in binders.  For an organized hoarder such as myself, it is hard to get rid of things that are perfectly "good".

 I dwindled it down to this.  Now I know some of you would have got rid of even more, but it's baby steps for those of us who are new to this.  Why would I throw something away if I still have room to store it?   Who knows you just might need it someday......just ask me ....... I probably have it.

I must say it is so much nicer after, but it is so hard for me to get rid of anything.  

Just for the record, yes I did keep the 1974 cookbook and no I have not opened it ......yet.

Thanks for visiting my part of the organized hoarding country

Jana

My Inheritance

 My husband has wanted a barn for years and this year we finally got him one built.  It is nice, big and most of all CLEAN, once again let me emphasize CLEAN.  (see all the shelving outside he gets, and there is more inside)

He got a new  CLEAN barn and I get this....that seems fair doesn't it?

Now don't misunderstand me, I am thrilled to get the entire garage for myself (well mostly for myself)

currently I am sharing it with lots of bugs....yuck!!

I just wanted to have proof of what I started with. 

I need a little sympathy and lots of credit for putting up with a slob,

 (Love ya honey, it is true opposites attract)

This is what I got and this is AFTER  I had done some cleaning

See all of my little "friends"

I will give an update later,  if I ever dig my way through this.   If  I never have another post again,  just know I am buried somewhere in the garage.  At least it is mine now, I just didn't know it would be my burial  plot as well.......wish me luck,  lots and lots of luck.

Thanks for visiting my part of the (dirty) country

Jana