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pami

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I use mine off and on. For me, sometimes, its easier to park in the drive and go inside that way.
 

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I used to be quite meticulous about my car's paint. Wash it all the time, and 3 stage wax, sealer, conditions, etc etc. I just shutter at the thought of it going down the toilet as I have been living in places w/o garages for the last 3 years. It still looks decent for a 10 years old car, but not nearly as lustery as it once was.
 

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We've got three garages and none of our running cars go in any of them!


We've got a 69 Chevy (recently imported from the US) in the front garage, an old pick up truck in the back one and in the middle one it's FULL of junk - multiple BBQ's, desks, cat cages, old cat beds, cardboard. You name it!


My car is parked in the carpark by the front garage, Mum's on the lawn and Kieran's on some concrete. Visitors have to park on the street!
 

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We have a two-car garage which, until I let Rufus (my Honda) go, housed two cars. After Rufus left, Sheba had it to herself, until my Dad moved out and we needed somewhere to put his stuff "until we figure out what to do with it". That was 7 years ago. His stuff is still there. But there's still plenty of room for Sheba, so the incentive to move Dad's stuff is minimal.
 

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Originally Posted by Momofmany

a stereo cabinet from 1970.
A hot tip. If that stereo has a tube amplifier, it would fetch some bucks (without the cabinet) on e-bay or some such thing. They are very popular to use to make a tube guitar amplifier.
 

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We have a two car garage that's starting to collect things, and I'm not a happy camper about it. We can still fit our cars in it, but it's also got a wheelbarrow, mower, old broken snow blower, and vast amounts of tools, cat litter and things like that in it. It's getting a little cramped in there...Time to house clean I think..
 

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i have a 1-car garage [which is enough, since i'm the only driver] & i always park in it. however, i'd like to get a garden shed for the lawnmower & wheelbarrow [which currently live at the house end of the garage] so that i don't have to move the car every time i need to use them.
otherwise, everything else in it [trashcans, exercise bike, tools, interior doors i've removed, rear storm door (replaced by a screen door that need repair), ladder, etc.] fits in it along w/my little car.
 

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We have a 3 car garage, a 2 car garage, and a shop (oh and a shed that could fit a car, too). There are 2 cars & the van in the 3 car garage. We keep it clean except for kitty furniture & warm places to sleep for the farm kitties. The 2 car garage is packed with junk - like 3 extra pallets of ceiling tiles because someone can't count when they ordered them! The shop has 2 trucks & the high lift loader. The other tractor resides in the yard. And the shed is where the lawn mower is.
 

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We have a two and a half car garage. After moving all the stuff out of my in-laws houses, though, about one and three-quarters cars worth of space is filled with junk.
My little Sentra will fit in there, but his car won't.
 

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If I had a garage, I would paint the floors a checkered flag pattern, and keep my honda, my ferrari and my corvette in it, well the first one for sure, as the other two are only in my dreams right now, lol
 

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I live in the city, and I share a two car garage with my neighbors. The garages are off the back alley. I absolutely park in there, mostly because there's nowhere else to park but in the garage!
 

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Originally Posted by Momofmany

Boy you've hit a sore spot! We have a 2 car garage and I would like to park my car in there, but there is too much junk in it. I can get my car into the garage, but then I can barely squeeze out the door and then I can't walk thru the garage to get into the house. I've gotten my clothes dirty brushing up against the car trying to get out of the garage.

DH has a car that he hasn't driven in 3 years that is parked in there and I can't get him to sell it. Some days I want to be mean and call a junker to tow it away. Then I remember that we could probably get a couple thousand for it.

Then we have a huge shed on the property where we could store a lot of stuff from the garage, but DH says he doesn't want to clutter up that shed. That shed is big enough to park 2 cars. He doesn't use it very often because it's not heated and too far away from the house.

I want to sell the car that we don't use, move DH's work shop from the shed to where that car is parked, then move all the remaining clutter to the shed. Then I can park my car inside, swing the door wide open, and walk into the house.

This is an ongoing discussion between us. I will win one day.
Don't be too sure! Every place we have lived (with the exception of the townhouse years ago), we have had either a single or double car garage. Hubby has the garage full of "stuff". He also had a 70 Dodge at our last house that got to be in the garage and I scraped ice and snow off my car every winter. I keep hoping that one day I'll be able to park in a garage but I honestly don't think I'll live long enough to do so.
 

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Most of the time there are too many here to fit into the garage, so the ones we don't want to chance "getting in the way" of the neighborhood kids are driven in.
 

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My parents have a two car garage but there's too much crap piled up to park a vehicle in it. [My mom is a collector of stuff along with a bunch of doll stuff from her doll making days!]
 

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I chose "other" because I don't have a garage. Even the carport got closed in to make a dining room and extra bedroom (long before I bought the house). So my car sits in the driveway and I had a storage shed built behind the house for all the junk. Of course, there's still more junk on the patio than in the shed.
 
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