My husband and I always roll our eyes when we drive past houses that have 75K worth of cars sitting in front of the garage and 3K worth of CRAP inside the garage.
When we moved back to the states in 1989 my dad said he would buy us a Whirlpool washer and dryer if we had a baby. Being the compliant daughter that I am, I got the washer and …
My husband and I always roll our eyes when we drive past houses that have 75K worth of cars sitting in front of the garage and 3K worth of CRAP inside the garage.
When we moved back to the states in 1989 my dad said he would buy us a Whirlpool washer and dryer if we had a baby. Being the compliant daughter that I am, I got the washer and dryer and a year later along came the baby. The washer and dryer bit the dust about 8 years ago and I cried as they were hauled to the dump. My son will be 35 soon....he is still in good shape. It was a good deal.
Yes a guy in our neighborhood posted on our neighborhood FB page with a picture of his almost brand new car that was stolen out of his driveway overnight - probably a $50K car easy. I wanted to post (but didn't) saying 'what was it doing in the driveway? You have a garage!? At least half of the homes in our middle class neighborhood don't park their cars in their garages - I laugh as I back out of my (heated) garage on mornings they are out scraping ice/snow/frost off their running to warm up cars. Guess it's petty - our next door neighbors do have 4 kids and he has a handyman biz so I understand their 'having a lot of stuff' stage of life, but a lot of these folks don't even have kids still at home and still have full garages.
Well at least it's useful stuff. 😆 One neighbor was a professional magician and he kept all his show supplies + he used to put out a huge Halloween display that kids would come for blocks around to see. He retired from all that and sold off all that stuff, telling me, now we can finally park our cars in the garage! Five years later, cars are still sitting in the driveway - a squirrel got in under one of his cars and chewed up a bunch of wiring, complained it cost him $3 grand to fix. Don't know what's in that garage now!?
My husband and I always roll our eyes when we drive past houses that have 75K worth of cars sitting in front of the garage and 3K worth of CRAP inside the garage.
When we moved back to the states in 1989 my dad said he would buy us a Whirlpool washer and dryer if we had a baby. Being the compliant daughter that I am, I got the washer and dryer and a year later along came the baby. The washer and dryer bit the dust about 8 years ago and I cried as they were hauled to the dump. My son will be 35 soon....he is still in good shape. It was a good deal.
Yes a guy in our neighborhood posted on our neighborhood FB page with a picture of his almost brand new car that was stolen out of his driveway overnight - probably a $50K car easy. I wanted to post (but didn't) saying 'what was it doing in the driveway? You have a garage!? At least half of the homes in our middle class neighborhood don't park their cars in their garages - I laugh as I back out of my (heated) garage on mornings they are out scraping ice/snow/frost off their running to warm up cars. Guess it's petty - our next door neighbors do have 4 kids and he has a handyman biz so I understand their 'having a lot of stuff' stage of life, but a lot of these folks don't even have kids still at home and still have full garages.
My garage is my shop. No car has been in it since 1990.
Well at least it's useful stuff. 😆 One neighbor was a professional magician and he kept all his show supplies + he used to put out a huge Halloween display that kids would come for blocks around to see. He retired from all that and sold off all that stuff, telling me, now we can finally park our cars in the garage! Five years later, cars are still sitting in the driveway - a squirrel got in under one of his cars and chewed up a bunch of wiring, complained it cost him $3 grand to fix. Don't know what's in that garage now!?
Petty....I am with you. Scrape away!!
A great deal! 💖