day in the shop ruined

"Mike in Mystic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Well, with a 4 week old son...
<snip>

> As I stood in the middle of my shop, I thought to myself, "this place sure
> is a mess".

You're simply reacting like any Father...

Cheer-up! It only gets worse. We've got a three year old and (almost)
two-year old twins. They can destroy the living room in under a minute. :)

In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
says...
>
> "Mike in Mystic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> > So, I guess my new bench will have to wait. I think I've given myself at
> > least another weekend's worth of reorganizing before I'll be ready to
> build
> > anything at all.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> >
>
> Don't you just hate that? I should do the same.
>
> Winter is coming and I've been talking about insulating the shop. It is not
> about cost as the insulation is free. It is the effort of moving everything
> to get to the walls.

You have no idea how close to home you hit. What started out this
summer as a project to add efficient plywood storage to my shop slowly
went from planning for plywood storage to: "since I'm putting this up, I
may as well insulate and put up wallboard behind where I'm going to put
the plywood storage so I don't have to take it down later", which then
became, "since I've gone here, may as well use up the rest of the
insulation" to "I'll go up to the cabinets on the wall" to a full-blown,
take the cabinets off the walls, remove the garage door and install
patio doors and air condition the place reconfiguration project. So now
I have a shop that is messier and more disorganized than I have ever had
it, but with white, insulated walls, 2/3 of an insulated ceiling, and
the beginnings of re-organization. After I get the wood storage rack
reconfigured for scraps, I'll start working the dust collector
reconfiguration and clamp storage, followed by adding drawers to the
workbench, then other more efficient storage. After that's all done, I
will probably put up some efficient plywood storage capability.



> My plans to add a shed are put off until next years as
> the $ went into a re-model on the family room.
>
> Meantime, I have three small projects in the works. They are just more fun
> that clearing junk out of the garage, but re-organization is probably the
> best place to put some time in the long run.
> Ed
>
>
>

"Mike in Mystic" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> So, I guess my new bench will have to wait. I think I've given myself at
> least another weekend's worth of reorganizing before I'll be ready to
build
> anything at all.
>
> Mike
>
>

Don't you just hate that? I should do the same.

Winter is coming and I've been talking about insulating the shop. It is not
about cost as the insulation is free. It is the effort of moving everything
to get to the walls. My plans to add a shed are put off until next years as
the $ went into a re-model on the family room.

Meantime, I have three small projects in the works. They are just more fun
that clearing junk out of the garage, but re-organization is probably the
best place to put some time in the long run.
Ed

Mike in Mystic wrote:

> As I stood in the middle of my shop, I thought to myself, "this place sure
> is a mess". That was strange in and of itself, since I usually don't take

It's worth it. I went through that. Spent two whole days cleaning and
organizing.

The net result is that now my shop is pretty damn tidy, and I've been
keeping it that way for at least a month or two now. I've been doing a
*lot* more work out there since I did that, and my wild hare to pile
everything up in the middle of the floor and redo the shop has proven to
have been a wonderful thing.

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In news:[email protected],
Mike in Mystic <[email protected]> spewed forth and said:
> So, I guess my new bench will have to wait. I think I've given
> myself at least another weekend's worth of reorganizing before I'll
> be ready to build anything at all.
>
> Mike

Look at the bright side, when you're done, you'll have clean spaces to put
more stuff<eg>

"Mike in Mystic" <[email protected]> wrote:

[snip]
>As I stood in the middle of my shop, I thought to myself, "this place sure
>is a mess". That was strange in and of itself, since I usually don't take
>much notice of these things. The next thing I know I've decided to
>rearrange my shop to make it more efficient and have a clearer location for
>the new bench. What in God's name was I thinking!!
>
>After about 5 hours I now have an even messier shop, with piles of hand
>tools that were on my other bench now stacked on my Unisaw extension table.
>Various corded tools were there also. My Leigh jig was on the floor.
>Countless cans and jars of varnish, tung oil, urethanes, waxes, etc. were
>strewn about. At least 15 woodworking books, project drawings, shipping
>manifests, etc. were stacked in there too.
[snip]

You unleased a dark force doing that. Do it too many times and your
house and garage /b/b/b/b shop will explode.

Wes

Did the same thing this weekend. I liked the before more than the
after.
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