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lol!

You have to think more laterally dbd dude; frying pans!

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I let it freeze. The garage (a two and a half car garage on the mls listing) is actually a wooden shed with no foundation, each year it sinks a little deeper into the ground. The doors swing in hollows which I make deeper each year. The hollows filled with snow and water which froze so the challenge was to smash up the ice, allowing of course that all chisels, large hammers, spades and similar were in the garage. Once the handle broke off the trowel was quite stout and, by whacking it with a meat tenderizer we got the job done.

This time each year we decide which items will not be needed until April. In the case of a mistake we usually buy another one rather than try to open the garage.

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DBD..so you are one of those people that store stuff in the garage, and park cars on the street or driveway? You always see that when you are out and about, surely with all that clutter in the house, it must be hard to know what you have or don't have, and then you end up buying another?

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I've mostly parked on the street or driveway, yes. I've only parked in the garage when living in apartment buildings, but I've always tried to avoid having stuff.

At this house it's not possible to put most cars in the garage anyway, the laneway's too narrow to turn anything in but a motorcycle. The garage contains boat stuff, fifteen years worth of accounting, garden tools, kayaks, camping equipment, hockey stuff, bicycles and the contents of a one bedroom apartment, still in boxes. Almost all of this acquired by children or "wives". In Mississauga, at the house occupied by my legal wife, the garage contains my summer car, car tools, swimming pool equipment, more bicycles, who knows what else but it'd better not be on my paintwork.

Until the arrival of the young-American-lover's possessions, about a month ago, the house wasn't cluttered, just the garage. Now the house is full. Full like an egg. We have about five hundred linear feet of books on the floors despite most walls being lined with hastily installed IKEA book shelves. You are right in saying that I don't know what we have but, whatever it is, I don't need one. I'm very resistant to buying things, I find that anything one buys either breaks down or gets stolen so it's better not to have it in the first place. I only buy things, apart from cars, under the greatest domestic pressure and try to limit my purchases to things that will be consumed in the next 24 hours.

Things that I have bought rather than dig the garage open have mainly been hand tools, for example we replaced the living room ceiling in mid-winter and that required a hammer.

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We're like that. I don't think our garage has had a car in it since it was built, 15 years ago. There is no evidence of oil on the floor. Not that you can see much of the floor. Or the walls. Or the ceiling.

I know of several townhouses in Oakville where the owners have converted the garages into living space.

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Oh yes, it's common to see that in Toronto too.

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Which?

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The garage being converted to housing.

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Apologies, lateral thinking is full swing there! Maybe some Tupperware patty stackers wedged here and there could stop the thing from sinking?

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[QUOTE=dbd33] by whacking it with a meat tenderizer we got the job done./QUOTE]

Don't try it with one of those knife-sharpening thingies, though, however tempting it may seem. I used one on some frozen chicken parts a while back. The chicken won.

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That might well work but the Tupperware is in the garage.

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Frozen? :confused:

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:D

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Soon to be. That is, of course, my Tupperware. It's out there with my pot, my pan, my three forks and my two mismatched knives. Apparently "no one" could put up with the stuff I had in the kitchen, though it seemed quite adequate to me.

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They do that, though, don't they?

When I moved in with my missus, I spent hundreds of quid having my stuff moved from Epsom to Chelsea. She'd been to my place enough times to know what I had. She even helped me pack it up. What did she do once it was in her house? Yup. About 80% of it straight in the bin.