One of the things that we did last weekend was my Mother-in-Law, Nana gave me the rest of her late husband’s (Boompa) power tools. I was glad to get the stuff of course but it was very sad because she bought all of the tools for him over the years for Birthdays, Christmas, Anniversary, and just because. He wasn’t the greatest handyman in the world but he took great delight in all his tools. Anyway, it was sad for everybody that day. Sweetie went through his office and that was was also very sad and brought back lots of memories.

Saturday night we drove home and I piled all the stuff in the garage. Sunday, after church I came home and looked at it. I absolutely hate a sitation where I can’t park my truck in the garage. The Cowboys weren’t playing until 3 and I put it on the DVR.

It was a lot of stuff. Really good stuff. I wanted to keep it, and we don’t have any extra room and so a lot of existing stuff had to go.

Getting rid of stuff is liberating. After I’m done getting rid of stuff I feel great, like coming home and taking a shower after a two night camping trip.

We have some really heavy duty steel shelves. I took everything off of them and then removed a shelf from one of them to handle the taller tools.

To make a base for the tools I used some particle board left by the contractor who built our house (8 years ago). So I pulled out all the stops. I had my table saw, a hand held rotary saw, and a jig saw. I was out there making very loud manly noises (power tool noises, not passing gas noises) that sent my only son screaming into the house covering his ears.

All this produced two boards, about 15″ x 34″ in dimensions, notched in the corners. Pretty impressive huh. Give me enough time, I could build a house, er maybe a bird house. Maybe.

So, my new stuff now has a home. I’m so proud.

Then the fun started. In order to keep the same amount of stuff I had to throw a lot away. Things I had not used in 20 years. I just chucked it. Sweetie came out and joined the party and started chucking bunches of her stuff. It was great. We filled up our large Home Depot garbage can and 7 large garbage bags.

After we were done then I put all the remaing items away and the only thing left to do was sweep the saw dust out. That was a job for SuperPizzaBoy. He rejected his dumb old Dad’s instruction and did it ‘his way.”