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Geo TH IN Garage full of junk and people can't use it.

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In another post Geo TH in hit the nail on the head as it is wide spread around me. The garage is full of cardboard, old chairs, bottle returnables, defunct appliances, etc. So the car, boat, lawnmower stays outside. Even worse is the ones that have 40 feet of junk in front of there building and can't get to it. One local out fit (business) is so bad they will be doing engine job outside in driveway. Rumor has it a local town is going to start "cleaning them up" junk ordinance type deal. I am not that way and cannot get my mind around it but its people I guess.
 
That's one of the things that Europeans laugh at Americans about! We park inside 100% of the time. Where we go for walks down along the lake (a pretty nice neighborhood) there is one place that has 2 stalls attached and a very nice 2 stall detached and all their vehicles and toys sit outside. When the one garage door is open you can see it's just full of junk.
 
I keep the outside of my place tidy so that Iam not referred to as 'That neighbor down the street'. My problem is I keep the top of my desk and workbench messy.
 
That seems to be more the norm than the exception.

Looking up and down the neighborhood streets, there are a lot more cars and trucks parked outside than in.

Then look at how many rental storage facilities there are!

My ex and her sister (card carrying hoarders) struggle to keep the rent paid on their homes, but manage to come up with hundreds a month to pay for multiple storage units that are crammed full of trash!
 
Yep , people keep their worthless junk inside their garage, out of sight. And park their cars and trucks on the driveway. Our Jeep goes into the garage when not being used, and my pickup goes into a shed. The garage at the house has two bays, and the second bay gets the lawnmower, roto tiller , and the generator. Nothing worse than having the power out , the generator in the shed, and the shed door frozen shut with ice and two feet of snow. Wondering how I know this??
 
So far I can get it all in and shut the door. Just have paths to walk ! It was getting more cleared out until the daughter moved in with her boy friend and I ended up with a lot of her stuff at my place. My wife is bad about dragging more junk home from yard sales too.
Knew a person who spent a lot of time and money restoring a JD 40U. It sat outside next to a garage full of little kids junk you could not get $ 100 for. What a shame. That tractor went down hill fast.
 
When we were house hunting had a realtor bragging about this home with lots of storage space. When we went to look we asked about the storage space. She promptly and proudly pointed to the garage.I wasted no time explaining the garage is to park vehicles in. Now where is this storage you were talking about?? Needless to say we didn't use her any more.
 

No excuse for a garage full of recyclables. Nearly every town I am familiar with has recycling bins. Defunct appliances can be hauled to the landfill. Yes, there may be a fee involved, but at least it is gone. Broken chairs can also go the land fill, or burned in an outdoor fireplace.
 
My ex and her sister (card carrying hoarders) struggle to keep the rent paid on their homes, but manage to come up with hundreds a month to pay for multiple storage units that are crammed full of trash! YES I CAN SHOW YOU MANY OF THE SAME EXAMPLES!!!
 
What business is it of yours what someone has in their garage or what they think is more important to them? What you call junk may be their most treasured possessions.
That is what this country is all about is each individual is free to make their own decisions.You sound like a busy body neighbor that has nothing of your own worthwhile to attend
to so you want to get into everyone else's affairs.Can't imagine why I would ever care what a neighbor has in any building/garage or where they park their vehicles.
 
Most places have appliance recycling - either a municipal contractor or a private business.
Dead appliances do not belong in landfills.
 
(quoted from post at 09:44:34 07/31/19) Most places have appliance recycling - either a municipal contractor or a private business.
Dead appliances do not belong in landfills.
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Our local landfill has a specific area for dropping off appliances and such. Those appliances are then sold to a scrap buyer, who hauls them to a recycler. Appliances DO NOT just go into the landfill.
 
There's a guy along the route to work that is close to the road, cannot even get in his driveway just about. Stuff all around the house, 20' shipping container bounding against the state road right of way. I've seen worse. Looks like some good/cool stuff, but who knows what the purpose is or will be. To either side, houses are not cluttered, stark contrast.

Another one near this one has piles of totes filled with things all around the yard, outbuildings full, a mix of animals and some small pasture, it is surprising the town has not gone after them, but I am glad they are left alone.

Personally, I've had some peak highs of clutter, but have since reduced and continue to do so, (2) 15 yd containers sure helped, + things I can take to the town etc. I don't like the way it looks, the critters it draws and sooner or later it is in your way.
Can't wait to finish the process of getting rid of things really not needed. My trouble is not bringing things in, but not getting rid of things over the years, it accumulates all on its own LOL !
 
Kind of makes me glad I don't have a garage for the neighbor's to complain about. Wonder if a tractor in the front yard counts?
 
A lot of people keep their places very tidy and even have room to park in their garage.
You don't see any junk at their place.
But they don't have anything to do or play with or work on so they just watch TV all the time and their minds are full of worthless junk.
 
TF .... it's as much his business as it is your business criticizing his point of view. You often seem to miss that in some of your posts. If he wants to criticize someone for whatever reason, he has every right to do that unless somebody changed the rules in a discussion forum. At least he didn't sound angry and up tight .... which doesn't appear to be your mood space today. His post was at least polite, yours wasn't. Do you have a tendency to argue with people TF? Meanwhile, if your neighbor parked a half dozen Red Green type K-cars on the property line, I think you might be hard to deal with.
 
I have just as much right to voice my opinion as anyone else has to voice their opinion and support you being able to voice your opinion about what I voiced my opinion about.I couldn't care less what cars my neighbors have,how many they have or where they park them on their property if they run out of space and are nice people I'll let them park some on my unused
piece of land.Anyway your country doesn't have the locked in guaranteed rights we do so you might not grasp the individual freedom concept.A Democracy means the mob can change the rules at any time.Long live the Republic and its real Constitution and Bill of Rights.
 
Crazy: GEO TH said this in another post,so I only amplified it here, as it really hit home with me. Anytime you mention this type of stuff some people gets hot as they feel my land I can do as I want. Thanks for getting after him, but I just came back with a joke was not at all mad at him.
 
I've known and worked for a man for many years who is quite a pack rat. He lives in a 20,000+ population town, and gets along well with all of his neighbors, but he likes tinkering with old cars and has always owned six or eight at any given time. Older interesting cars bought for nearly nothing. They will not all fit in his driveway, so some are parked in the street in front of his house. All of them are licensed and insured - all are running and driven occasionally. It's his hobby. He even has a complete Jaguar engine in his basement, much to his wife's dismay. One Saturday morning I was helping him build a carport in his back yard, when an older man walked around the corner of the house. We wondered what he wanted as he looked all around the back yard. Finally, he said, "Where's all your stuff?" Bill said, "What stuff?" "Your yard sale stuff!" There were so many cars out front that the old guy thought Bill was having a yard sale. I've never let him live it down. (Don't mention the Jag engine in his wife's presence)
 
TF ..... you say Canada lacks locked-in guarantee rights that you do? Well, other than the gun regulations in this country (which some might argue either isn't or shouldn't be a "right"), I think we have pretty much the same level of freedom as you guys do further south. Not much difference walking down main street in either place in my experience. A man from Mars would be hard pressed to differentiate. Meanwhile, the argument is debatable but I still say you sound like an angry kind of guy quite often.
 
I laugh at Europeans who keep livestock in the lower level of their house. Goats, cows, chickens sheep, pigs, guess they don't have to go outside to collect eggs, milk the cow or feed them. Our cars are outside from the time it quits frosting over the windows, til it starts again late fall. Usually have a couple projects SCATTERED around on the garage floor during the spring/summer/fall. But I don't really care what my neighbors or anyone else thinks. gobble
 
Exactly traditional it is none of his business but don?t criticize him or he?ll call you a know it all punk
 

A mechanic shop in the little village near me had junk and customer's cars parked all around the place. Was this way for years until the electrical utility needed to access its poles and equipment, through the right of way that ran along side the building. Needless to say they had to move all the vehicles off the right of away and clean up the junk there. To their credit they cleaned the whole place up and did some repaving around the shop and made a nice parking area, but away from the utility right of way.
 
Even if my garage were bare to the walls my truck would not fit in it. So I use it as a shop. It generally has way too much stuff in it.

We rarely get hail storms around here. Besides a garage does not protect your vehicle when you're driving it, or it's parked at work or at a store. The only time my truck sustained hail damage was when I was 360 miles from home and eating at a restaurant. Fat lot of good being able to park in my garage at home would have done me.
 
I like to be able to pull my car in the winter so I don't have to clean it off or have stuck doors heading off to work. Garage is not heated but does seem to stay above freezing. Down side is this is where rust is to be active ?
 
(quoted from post at 08:18:29 07/31/19) That's one of the things that Europeans laugh at Americans about! We park inside 100% of the time. Where we go for walks down along the lake (a pretty nice neighborhood) there is one place that has 2 stalls attached and a very nice 2 stall detached and all their vehicles and toys sit outside. When the one garage door is open you can see it's just full of junk.
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FUNNY , you didn't mention ALL of the things that cause Americans
to laugh at europeans, :roll:
 
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