Moving, Tools in Storage and Frustrated

[Steven Herbin]

Well, we sold our house and the movers came last Thursday. We haven't been able to close on our new house yet, so EVERYTHING went into storage. I never thought I had so much stuff. My tools filled a 10 x 10 storage "locker" even with things piled to the ceiling. Even when we close the house, we are still going to be storage since we are gut renovating the new place.

So I am really getting withdrawal symptoms. I can't even cut a piece of wood to get some good sawdust fumes. The only thing I left out was my Makita impact tool and drill kit.

After living in a nice house for all these years, it's different living in an apartment (while the gut renovate takes place).

Once we have the house and the walls are back up inside, I'm laying some nice new wood floors. The advice I got on SMC was priceless to the decision and even some of our choices.

BTW, Dino, we're now in Highland Park. A few miles south of you. When are we getting together for coffee and donuts?

BTW, we hired a company to clean out our house after the movers finished. My garage/shop required about 75% of a 10 yard dumpster for scraps and other accumulation and the house needed a 30 yarder. So this was quite a bit of "stuff." It's amazing what you can accumulate in 28+ years and 2 kids, etc. in a house!

[Jim Hager]

Congratulations on the new place Steven. We did something similar just over 3 years ago now. We bought 5 acres and put our place up for sale. We decided to build my new shop first so we set about putting that together and also decided to build an apartment in the shop to live in while we built the new house. I got a bigger shop that way:D Now the apartment is my showroom/office/client meeting place. I built a full set of kitchen cabs and of course a good bathroom setup for show that we used of course while we lived in there. When the house sold we moved into the shop and lived there for 13 months while we worked on construction of the house.

I had room for my tools to be set up in the new shop and I built a room for my SWMBO to store household stuff. Worked out pretty well and we didn't have to pay rent for an apartment or a storage facility.

Here is a shot of the shop on moving day. It was a total wreck and nothing is now where it was then. Just an idea you might want to consider.

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[Lee DeRaud]

So I am really getting withdrawal symptoms. I can't even cut a piece of wood to get some good sawdust fumes. The only thing I left out was my Makita impact tool and drill kit.Hmmm...run down to the Borg and pick up a piece of 1x6 poplar and a 1" spade bit. Not fine woodworking, but it might do for a quick "snort", just to take the edge off.:D :cool: :p

[Steven Herbin]

Thanks guys.

[Vaughn McMillan]

Hmmm...run down to the Borg and pick up a piece of 1x6 poplar and a 1" spade bit. Not fine woodworking, but it might do for a quick "snort", just to take the edge off.:D :cool: :p
LOL, spoken like a true junkie!

- Vaughn

[Donnie Raines]

Be sure that you have an inurance policy in place that will extend coverage away from your primary residence....storeage in this case.