While shutting the double car garage doors .....

[quiltingtrish]

I realized that DH has more room for his stuff than I do for my quilty stuff!

I do believe we will be having a talk real soon.

Hugs,

[bkthomas]

No Fair No Fair!!!!!

[Hulamoon]

Sounds like it's time for a GARAGE SALE.!

[Lisapc]

I completely understand. When hubby was 10 his mother bought him a dresser, night stand and desk. The night stand and dresser ended up in my daughters room which is now my sewing room. I have had enough of looking at these ugly things. I need the **** space. He actually suggested that we give this set to our son. Really? Our son got a brand new bedroom set which is beautiful when we moved in here 5 yrs ago. I am really excited to replace that set with a 40 yr old set. I don't care how solid that old thing is. If I can't paint it and change the hardware it is gone!

I vented, sorry. I really do understand where you are coming from!

[Hulamoon]

I understand too. I have a sewing room but both of my dd's moved out and left all their stuff behind. I have two whole rooms filled with trash and crap. Grrr

[Alpha O]

My idiot husband does that, too. He's grabbed all the space and organized it HIS way. Any vacant space belongs to him. His recliner has to face the TV, and it's too bad if we can't walk through the room. If he can't walk through a room, he complains.

I can't complain about the yard tools too much, I'm responsible for most of those since I'm lazy.

[MayinJerset]

Yes Trish, I do believe a talk with DH is necessary.

I know where you are coming from. We haven't put a car in the garage since the 1980's when DH and sons used to tune up their cars themselves. DH has almost the entire garage as his workshop while I have a small spot for our dryer. I have claimed the old kitchen base cabinets as mine and set up the ironing board and have a nice U shape space of my own, even put some leftover carpeting so I can work there barefooted. He had built a closet in there for a photography dark room but there was a problem getting a water supply there so it became storage area for his golf stuff. Ah Ha, I got there first and put an old double dresser to store my quilts in. Same with the spare bedrooms, he has the bigger closets but he never throws stuff away so they are overcrowded. No way will he get into the other closets in my sewing room, they are for quilting and art supplies and paintings.

Good Luck with your 'discussion' with DH.

[Mimis-quilts]

So here is what I would do...put all their crap in one room and you claim the other room for yourself. Then warn them that if the room isn't cleaned out in 1 year or less it is GONE!

I understand too. I have a sewing room but both of my dd's moved out and left all their stuff behind. I have two whole rooms filled with trash and crap. Grrr

[Jean Sewing Machine]

Wow, I didn't know you were supposed to get rid of old furniture. I still have a hutch and chest in my spare bedroom that we bought for our 40+ year old kids when they were toddlers. I think I got my $40 worth of use out of them.

[ilive2craft2]

I totally feel your pain, except I did a coup - I claimed our sons room for sewing a year before he moved out. Then bought a long arm earlier this year, so that there is not any "extra" room in my sewing room for any of his stuff.

He has the entire basement - pool table, weight lifting room, a room for stained glass (I did the classes too and loved it, but dad died and then I found quilting). We are also storing my mom's "stuff" that she can't part with, but will never use again - she is now in an assisted living apartment. We have a ton of stuff from his mom who died last fall. We have a ton of our own stuff, since both of us are keepers, but not hoarders. We tend to tuck things into the basement, but the rest of the house except for closets are ok.

We have contractors coming tomorrow to start on the kitchen and hall bath. I have been pitching stuff as well as donating usable stuff from our son's room as well as the kitchen and bath. In order to have room for the stuff we are keeping, I keep trying to get rid of the old stuff. I think the stuff he packed, he just packed and did not sort through.....

I think we need to move all of the furniture in the living room out of the way and at least cover it with blankets and put up some kind of tarp or something in the hallway and to the sun room or everything will be ruined by the dust. He thinks I am over reacting.