Do our garages really belong to us ?

[mygarageone]

I built my garage / hot rod shop for the sole purpose of my pleasure.
However my wife doesn't see it that way and I have been pushed to allow her to store her stuff in there . Rather than having a big blow up I have backed off the it's my space thing.
I have told her time and time again , We men need some place that's just ours and ours alone !

Anyone else have this problem ?

 

[Scott H in Wheaton]

My wife always asks, I always say no.

"Honey, there's a lot of paint overspray, chemical fumes, and sawdust out there. You don't really want your nice things stored in that type of environment do you?"

 

[Kevin54]

I don't. I give my wife the complete two car garage on the house. I have a 28'x36' garage that I built for me....EXCEPT....I built a 14' long x 4' deep closet in on corner, and that's where Christmas stuff, and some Longaberger stuff of hers gets stored. But other than that, she is rarely down to my garage.

That could be the fact top, that I built her a 20'x20' building of her own.

 

[Gasgt1]

I never get the Longaberger stuff.
So many seem to have it (most of it tucked away) and I see it at auctions everywhere in brand new condition.

Easier than tools to find around here.

Greg

 

[Delta74]

well I guess since YOUR space is full of her **** and that's ok, don't you have a really dirty stinky transmission that you need to store in HER closet?

if the wife is a keeper I think your boned, all you can do now is keep her stuff from spreading to the whole place, Otherwise and this is the smart *** answer.just start building a new bigger shop for yourself now, open your wifes purse get your balls back and put your foot down on the new shop.

 

[crewchief888]

no decorations allowed in the garage. had some larger halloween props stored out there, all gone now

she has a 24" x 48" "workbench" to put her **** on.

when it overflows, i start pitching stuff in the trash.

 

[Gasgt1]

she has a 24" x 48" "workbench" to put her **** on.

when it overflows, i start pitching stuff in the trash.

I would bet that leads to some quality time

 

[GH85Carrera]

We have a 3 car garage. My wife gets the entire house to fill with her antiques and stuff. I let her park her car in my garage and there are just a few small items she gets to keep out there. The walls are decorated MY way. We have way too much stuff up in the attic. The yard stuff is in a storage building in the back yard.

 

[Hghgrad]

We had an agreement that I wouldn't bring motors and transmissions into the house anymore and she wouldn't have anything in my garage when we bought this house.


There's now a loft shelf with random stuff from the house on it. I don't what's all in those boxes, but I know better than to try to move them back into the house


One of these days I'm dragging a dirt bike or something into the kitchen to work on. Maybe she'll get the hint

 

[countryroad82]

I told my wife she can have the house the garage is mine! It was mine waaaayyy before we even met just don't ask! Plus it's a moneymaker for me and I don't need her **** with my ****.

 

[jdmae86]

Yeah... My wife has the entire house & two car attached garage. I even park my car outside. BUT the 30'x60' in the back yard is all mine.

 

[pepi]

No question about it YES it does.


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[justanengineer]

She's 24, blond, and understands what belongs in the garage vs what doesnt, so no, I dont mind storing her 68 Mustang in there while were restoring it or other smaller projects temporarily. If either of us is tripping over something repeatedly or feels something needs to go, the other almost never has a problem with it and usually agrees.

She lets me have input into the house, I let her have input into the garage.

 

[Lightyear68]

I had that problem, and slowly started widdling away at her stuff, finding better places inside the house for it...and ultimately flooring a space in the attic for general stuff that opened up more space for her to store things inside the house. Now she thanks me for making her stuff so easy to get

Where there's a will, there's a way, brother. Make it a win-win, not a battle that somebody has to lose [I'm a counselor].

 

[Doxhog]

My wife has the majority of the basement (except my workshop) and the two and a half car attached garage. I have the 2,000 square foot building. She keeps her 2010 Challenger RT, 1990 Sportster and miscellaneous other nick nacks in the attached garage. I keep my 68 GTO, 1970 Fire Truck, various motorcycles and tools in the building.

No problems.

 

[crewchief888]

I would bet that leads to some quality time

yep sure has.

i dont ask much of her, just dont let "stuff" accumulate anywhere in the garage or house.
and toss out the junk.

most of what i get annoyed about is things like (disposable) plastic pots that plants are in, bag of potting soil sitting in the middle of the floor with a handfull left in it....

 

[rosspulliam]

The best thing I did when we decided to build a house was to build one with 2 separate garages. We were limited in location and financing, so there is no way a huge shop is in my future, but at least she gets the 12'x25' garage all to herself (if her car fits, it fits, and if she stuffs it with junk, her car sits in the driveway). Holiday stuff goes above her garage.

I get the 20'x25' garage all to myself, and she knows that she doesn't get to encroach on it.

It helps that she also has the oversize game room upstairs (17x22 + full bath + walk in closet) all to herself too, though.

 

[archirelic]

Well I'm not at the point to where we can have a detached shop/garage for me to work in, so I make do with our 2 car garage. My wife's pretty laid-back about the multitudes of projects and general "mess" in there and really doesn't ever go in there or throw a fit about it all.

The only thing I'm "hassled" about is when I'll leave some stuff in the drive for a couple of days b/c it doesn't look "nice" just setting out there and about how she'd like to pull her car in the garage in case of severe weather. I definitely think I can deal with those two "complaints" since I get free-reign over the garage.

All the stuff we have that needs to be stored, sits on two sets of shelves on a side wall in the garage and in the semi-usable attic space above.

Very awesome situation on my end!

 

[nit2wn]

She has a parking spot and that's it. The car is subject to being kicked out depending on how much space I need, but it's usually only for a few days at most. We have a 10x16 storage building for household stuff. She can decorate the house however she wants, I claim the garage and the smallest bedroom which is our computer room.

 

[b-body-bob]

My wife has clogged the attached 1-car to where there's barely room to move around in it. Not that my 26x30 is any more organized but I have a car in there and some room to work. I get downright belligerent when she tries to push into mine, using her pile as the reason. So far that's worked.

 

[bczygan]

You need a sign:

Truthfully, she needs her own space. Either find a place in the rest of the house and clear it out and designate it for her, or build her a space. A lean to addition on the house or garage or a shed. Or even another bay plus added to the existing garage.

"Honey...there's not enough room in the garage for your stuff. We need to add on a space about 12x30 to accommodate it." That's about 6'x12' for her and 12'x24' for you.
But partition her space off and make it only accessible from outside the garage, so her stuff can't impinge on the rest of the garage.

I've tried the throw it away method, but they remember everything that they have ever bought...and you'll pay for your indiscretion forever.

 

[mygarageone]

well I guess since YOUR space is full of her **** and that's ok, don't you have a really dirty stinky transmission that you need to store in HER closet?

if the wife is a keeper I think your boned, all you can do now is keep her stuff from spreading to the whole place, Otherwise and this is the smart *** answer.just start building a new bigger shop for yourself now, open your wifes purse get your balls back and put your foot down on the new shop.

Didn't say she had much just said she wants some of it. Get some balls Huh ?

It's not about showing who has the biggest Kahunas , it's about having peace in the relationship. I have most of the garage but not all of it. By the way , I have heard that from those big bad Twruck drivers about how they are the boss of this or that and they tell them what to do , those very bad Twruck Drivers are squeamish as a Little girl when they have to go over our Mighty Mac Bridge.
They are very intimidated by this things but they say they have Balls . That is until they have to go over that bridge ?
If you"ve never seen it , do a search for Michigan Mackinaw Bridge .
You'll see what I mean.

 

[NUTTSGT]

We went through this when we bought our place. I told her if it didn't fit in the attic, it would go into the house garage. If she didn't want it out there, it wasn't my problem.

It's not going in my garage. I made that clear in the beginning.

 

[mygarageone]

You need a sign:

Truthfully, she needs her own space. Either find a place in the rest of the house and clear it out and designate it for her, or build her a space. A lean to addition on the house or garage or a shed. Or even another bay plus added to the existing garage.

"Honey...there's not enough room in the garage for your stuff. We need to add on a space about 12x30 to accommodate it." That's about 6'x12' for her and 12'x24' for you.
But partition her space off and make it only accessible from outside the garage, so her stuff can't impinge on the rest of the garage.

I've tried the throw it away method, but they remember everything that they have ever bought...and you'll pay for your indiscretion forever.

Well mine is a 30 x 40 garage and I use it for my car restorations , and I most times need all of it. She has some stuff in here , but it's just the fact that are our garages ever really ours totally ? most times not , especially when it's the only garage we have right now.

 

[rburke65]

Well I have been very blessed and I recently built a shop......for me. I have ONE key. She can and does have all the rest, but this one is mine.

 

[nehog]

My wife will go in only if I insist, doesn't like anything of hers in there and generally considers the garage a horrible and disgusting place that should be left alone.

I have done nothing to change her mind on this matter.

 

[Alexbn921]

Everyone is different, but for me I need a clean open space in the garage to work on projects. It drives me crazy when the wife tries to put stuff in there. Somethings are not worth fighting over. The garage is! I only care about two rooms in the house, the entertainment room with TV/stereo placement and the garage. Let her have everything else her way.

 

[zip95864]

We have a 4 bedroom house. It's my wife myself and our 2 yr old daughter.

My daughter has her room and one bedroom we made into a playroom.

We have turned one of the bedrooms into my wife's craft room.

Therefore I get the garage. Though I have a huge attic above the garage that I store all of the Xmas, thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter rubbermaid bins.


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[Dave in Mass]

I have 5 bays attached to the house. My wife gets to park her small SUV in the bay closest to the house and she can also put things on the shelving on the wall against the side of the house.

She has pretty much exclusive use of the storage in the attic as well as the storage in 1/4 of the basement (the otehr 3/4 is finished with TV, Bar, Pool table etc.)

The rest of the garage and the storage above the garage are my domain. I will store some of her stuff when required but I need to "authorize" and "manage" the allocation of space. So much so that my wife gets a little freaked out when I just walk through the garage on my way into the house and will say "hey, I see you put something in the garage today" when it might be as small as putting a small grocery bag with a couple of paint brushes (example) on my workbench which is not empty by any means.

 

[jd_1138]

"All your garage are belong to us."

 

[MackMan]

Having the garage 6 miles from the house tends to cut down on the random "domestic drift".

 

[chicken89]

We have a 4 bedroom house. It's my wife myself and our 2 yr old daughter.

My daughter has her room and one bedroom we made into a playroom.

We have turned one of the bedrooms into my wife's craft room.

Therefore I get the garage. Though I have a huge attic above the garage that I store all of the Xmas, thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter rubbermaid bins.


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wow, sounds like my house... but my daughter is 4! we have a detached 2.5 car garage. i told my wife that i would make room in the garage during the winter so her car wouldn't get snowed on (really, it just made it easier to shovel the drive). when it starts to warm up, her car is back on the driveway (room for 6 cars in the back, and 4 beside the house)
was going to build a shed with tax money to put all the holiday decorations in and storage for her craft stuff... but not having a job, that money gets to go towards bills

 

[zkdiesel]

Single. Problem solved! Girlfriends come and go but they are not taking the shop

 

[61falcon]

I have two garages, one attached to the house and a 2nd detached garage that is all mine. we park our daily drivers in the attached garage and keep outdoor toys in there as well for our daughter. the detached is where i keep my toys.

 

[Nick Danger]

She has her studio. I have the garage. The rest of the house belongs to both of us.

She will occasionally ask to put something in the garage, and since it's always a reasonable request I always say yes. For example, her business sign was in there for a while, because we don't have any other place big enough to store a full sheet of plywood.

 

[aka Larry]

When we first moved into our house the rule was, the house was her's, the garage was mine. When we decided to build a shop, she said she wanted the attached garage for her daily driver. I agreed, and our other cars stay outside. My Mustang stays in the new detached shop though. Everything in the shop is mine!

 

[pop pop]

Nope. I don't own it nor does the wife. The government must own it. I pay rent (taxes) every year to use it.

 

[shooting4life]

The laundry is the only thing I let my wife do in the garage. I have kept a firm so far, she has the whole house to keep her **** including three extra closets and one empty room.

 

[ibedayank]

easy... I have a key and the Boss has a key to the 86x54 shop She does not and nothing of hers goes into it.

 

[bazzateer]

Simple - build her a place of her own to keep all her stuff in.