This strange warm weather pattern has one good side, I can comfortably putter around in my shop inbetween paid jobs, or while I wait on the review process for larger projects. Last week I broke down the old change table, RIP little friend. Haven’t needed it for four years now, and could not find anyone willing to take it off my hands, even for free. Yesterday I moved some things around to get all of the wood for my projects tucked into one corner. Freed up more floor space in the working area of my garage shop. I have some bar chairs i took for free in the fall to figure out next. I like the idea of having extra seating in the garage for when my kids join me, but i kinda hate the space being taken up by those two bar stools. I want to put them up on the racking, but I’ll have to fetch them each time someone else wants to sit down. It’s rare, so probably not the hindrance i feel it is.
I’m still kinda set on getting another rolling tool box for my chisels and such. I want my tools off the wall. Not a fan of the tippy toes needed to reach for things I want to use. I think a 36″ wide unit would be perfect. Somewhere in the five to seven drawer niche. I’m holding off on buying new, to see if I can land anything close on Facebook Marketplace for half the price. Plus it helps me to know if it’s something I need, or if it’s a flight of fancy, and an item I just ‘want‘. If that makes any sense. Though I will say, as far as my wants go, I tend to be right on the money with needing those items within the next 2 – 3 years after purchase. So not a waste per se, but a silly one off purchase that comes in really handed the rare time I desperately need it. I don’t know if that justifies those purchases or not, but it means I’m usually on the right track, sort of. Ha.
I do have a bunch of broken home electronics which I need to take to the dump. I have been breaking them down to steal their screws, bolts, cord segments, and copper wire off the motors. Then I’m discarding the plastic cases and some wiring only. Not great, I’ll admit, but I’m not tech savvy enough to rewire our broken things. I burned out the motor on a blender, the give away was the melted wire smell. Our old Hepa filter died but never smelled. I couldn’t see any blown resisters on the mother board, or burned wires, or excess wear & tear on the unit. It just died on me. An old radio went, a portable fan died too. Lots to be broken down, and parts retrieved for my jars of random bits.
I could fill another cardboard box with burnable scraps if I felt like it. I have a box in the basement that needs to go north to the cottage full of fire starting materials. Namely old magazines that are way out of date tech wise. No need to learn Adobe CS3 from 2007 anymore. Plus there are some clothes for the kids to go up north and get left there. Ideally we’d have clothes left there for everyone so that we don’t HAVE to pack clothes in order to be comfortable on the lake. I’d love to be able to grab a back pack and a tooth brush to leave instead of packing & unpacking all of our belongings every time we head north. First world problems, I know, I know.
As much as I can clean the shop/house I can’t make them any bigger. The size shall forever remain the same. So I hope by reducing whatever is excessive on the inside I can atleast make it feel bigger. Or provide fewer obstacles to have to work around. Make do with what I’ve got.
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