When you get old, New Year's weekend isn't about the parties (I made midnight this year, OUR TIME ZONE!!!!), or the football games (although I did watch a ton of bowl games) or even about resolutions....

It becomes about having time off work to get projects done.

This is what happens when you get old. You get excited about cleaning, painting, organizing, and labeling your garage.

If you don't get it, ask your father...

Oh, and welcome to your future one day, young grasshoppers. 8)

Paint the Workbench:



Buy discounted stoage bins after Christmas and organize your piles of crap:



Label each bin with the appropriate title (use the old timey label maker, not that new technological business):





Next, take everyting out of your garage, strip, then paint and seal the concrete floor:



After it dries, hang everything on your wall in any annoying organized, mildly OCD, and esthetically pleasing fashon:





and don't forget to clean and organize, then label, all your tools... because all your friends are playing in the snow and you are not.



Like I said, men... welcome to your future. Enoy the aging process.

- Alan

lol I hear ya Alan. I spend most of my days off working on some project. Looks good though man! lovin it.

Well...can't say I haven't thought about organizing the garage but that's as far as I've gotten. Maybe the actual act of doing it is what separates the youngins from the soon to be AARP card recipients ;)


Looks great Alan, loving the sealed floor! I'm definitely suffering from garage envy lol

LOL Alan. I worked on the wife's Camry. I changed the oil, cleaned and re-oiled the K&N drop in filter and changed the spark plugs. New Years Day was car project day for me.

Looking good, but don't forget the final step... next holiday, do it again since you have 1 new tool and no where to hang it...

I like the epoxy floor, that is on my to do list for sure.

I told Linda that that is what I want my garage to look like. She gave me the look. Back to the drawing board.

LOL Paint it cheap and storage bins are on sale.

The floor isn't epoxy, it's just stripped concrete with cheap grey Lowe's paint and a sealer. 8)

Looks like your place would be good now for a HG Wrenching Party (no affiliation with Manmping's similar activities)

I've been asked by a couple members about setting one up