Extra Storage

That is THE present to give two college students who are about to have a baby. Like I have said previously David and I were in desperate need of an extra bedroom, small closet or even just a shed to store some of the things we don't use very often (like suitcases, seasonal clothes or decorations). Our second bedroom has been one large closet, the floor being a massive shelf, for the past year. It has gone through several small bouts of usefulness as an actual room but nothing close to the capacity we needed to add another human being (and all their stuff) to it. 

Cue David's Mom. She comes and visits for one weekend and solves all of those immediate problems and one future problem we hadn't even started worrying about yet (a second car). Whew, what a relief! The weekend after they left we put together our storage shed and the deck box so we could FINALLY truly relieve our second bedroom. 

David so very kindly swept out the garage because it was filthy; yuck!

He woke up and went out to start working on this Saturday morning. I was asleep when he called me from the garage. I gladly came down and started helping out, what a great hubby!

I thought this was funny. This is his coat hanging from the pull on the garage door opener box. After Halloween we realized we should have hung a coat and my beauty school doll head from someone else's  garage door box (along with some fake blood all over). Wouldn't that have been truly devious??! In an awesome way of course :)

So many shelves!

Showing off his work

All done!

When we were originally at Lowe's looking for a cabinet we found one just like this and then realized this one was 16 inches wider and only $16 more. Upgrade! Both of our new storage units were on sale which made me feel a little better about David's Mom buying them for us. If someone is going to spend money on us the least we could do is find what we wanted on clearance. Win-win right?

David was only going to put together the storage unit for our garage that weekend but I tricked him into helping with the deck box as well. Here is how I did it; I started putting it together on my own, mainly because it was like a big plastic toy box and it didn't require any power tools. We had just finished up eating lunch and relaxing while we watched a couple of our favorite TV shows. David was supposed to go study, but he wanted to watch another episode of Eureka. I said "sure we will watch another episode of Eureka if you help me put this box together while we watch." I am getting really good at the win-win scenario.

About an hour later we were all done!

I took this picture today, that is our lovely old carpet. As you can see our deck box fits on our little porch great! We tend to only ever have garbage on our porch and it often embarrasses me but it's better than leaving the bags in our house until trash day. I can't even count how many times as we pull into our building lot that I'll comment on how lovely "red-neck/ white-trashy" our porch looks; literally trashy :S gross!

This is just a small example of what is no longer in our second bedroom. There were two other smaller buckets just like this full of seasonal clothes and "stuff" that was completely filling up our second bedroom and the closet.

What our closet looks like now and the best part is most of the stuff on that shelf is there temporarily until I sort things out more. I told David this was enough to make me want to get emotional because this is the emptiest this closet has been since before we lived here. The closet doors have been bulging to hold in our possessions for the last year and now it's practically empty! This post was probably way to much organizing talk for some of you. I can't help it, I was so excited, you know you are growing up when shelving and storage begin to make you this giddy.