A sad day yesterday., Just seems cruel. Options

[hot_shoe914]

Well, yesterday was a very sad day indeed. I lost my free additional parking next door as the house sold and I had to clear my cars out of the driveway. I am very limited on parking now and was forced to take my Bumble Bee and stuff her away all alone in a storage building. Poor girl loves to be driven and driven hard but now she just sits all alone in darkness. I contacted a couple of people to see if they wanted to be foster parents but had no luck. I know these cars would rather be driven than just sitting but my storage is in another town and not real convienient to get to with my schedule. I will try to get out to see her at least once a month and exercise her but I'm sure she is pretty pissed at me now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

[Tom_T]

Shoe,

If you have room on your lot & the town allows it, look into one of those prefab metal or wood shed kits, that you can build yourself on a slab, & access off your driveway. That way you can hopefully build one big enough to store both the Bee & your parts stash, as well as whatever your wife insists on going in there!

I did a 10x17 Arrow metal shed (has 8' w. dbl. doors on one end) for about $1200 for parts, biz & household stuff (limited size by city) & my son & I built it in a week or so, plus cost/time for a framed raised wood floor since it's not an extra garage at additional cost (about $1600 all in - your slab cost might be less). It's not insulated due to SoCal climate, but they can be insulated, and come in various widths & lengths depending on what you want & size allowed. Same with the wood framed kits.

Look online, pick what you want (& what the wife will "approve of"), then Google by that type for best price supplier cuz they vary vastly plus some are free shipping offers too (wood kits are 2x - 3x more but look better). I found mine $300 off + free shipping (about $80-90 savings).

Don't know what your storage space costs, but we saved $75/mo. on my wife's parents' stuff stored in Little Rock that's in part of that shed now, & I had 1/2 my garage filled with daughter's & wife's & my biz stuff - both of which would've cost me $100-150 locally in SoCal to store off-site. So I figure it's paid for itself since we built it in Summer of 2009! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)