Two cars and a double garage...

Nine years ago (or thereabouts) I met my now husband. Since then I've learnt to accept that double garages were never meant to house two cars. Hell, in some instances they're not even meant to house one! All jokes aside, I love my husband to bits but he has a tendency to accumulate useless possessions (from here on in referred to as crap....there I said it, he collects crap). The last five years of living together have been fantastic but interesting. I don't think there's been a single time we've been able to fit both cars into our garage. I should also add that there's also not been a single time we haven't had a double garage. So yes, we should have had ample room for two cars.

Ever since we knew the completion date for our house was getting closer I'd been making little comments here and there about how great it would be to fit two cards in the garage in the new place. Sometimes they were noticed, other times ignored but I persisted (continuously) until Darryl would just laugh. To this day I'm not sure if he laughed because he had no intention of having the garage tidy enough for two cars, whether he laughed because he thought I was kidding or whether he laughed because it was that or belt me over the head with something just to shut me up. In the end I decided it needed to be made quite clear that I was serious. So I did something I'm not entirely proud of.....I threatened a skip bin. I had the motivation, I had the time with two weeks off to move/unpack and I had the opportunity to have the skip here, filled and gone all in the one day before he got home from work.

Fast forward to last night...we've been living in our lovely new home for 10 days and we've finally finished unpacking all of the boxes, garage included. Everything has a home and anything that didn't have an appropriate spot got dumped, even some of Darryl's crap he'd collected over the years. And while I'm sure I still have an unused fire twirling stick, amble spare bike tyres for a pushbike we don't own and countless tins of touch up paint for our old house, I can also now park two cars in the garage at once AND close the door. Bliss!