Garage Cleanout Guide: How to Clear Out Years of Unwanted Junk
Garage Cleanout Guide: How to Clear Out Years of Unwanted Junk Somewhere along the way, garages stopped being for cars. Nobody decided this on purpose. It happened gradually — one box that needed "a temporary spot," a bike nobody rides anymore, a shelf of paint cans from a project finished five years ago. And then one day you go looking for something specific and realize you can no longer see the floor, let alone park a car on it. If that sounds familiar, you're not dealing with a storage problem. You're dealing with a garage that's quietly become the house's unofficial archive of things nobody wanted to make a decision about. The good news: clearing it out is much less overwhelming once you stop trying to do it all at once. Why Garages Fill Up Faster Than Anywhere Else in the House There's a simple reason garages become the default dumping ground: they're out of sight. A cluttered garage doesn't affect your daily life the way a cluttered kitchen o...