[jgbama]

Originally Posted by perrjojo

My husband had lots of photos, placques and awards from his 40 years in the aircraft industry. We have removed all the photos from the frames and taken photos of the placques and awards. I have then scanned them and am making them into a Shutterfly book. He will still have a record of all the memories without taking up all of the space. I had many family potraits on the walls and am doing the same with them.

We are putting framed photos in a photo album. Love the idea of doing the same for plaques and awards.

After 9 trips to Salvation Army thrift store and a very successful yard sale yesterday, we are still downsizing! Our (soon to be) new home in TV has attic stairs already, but don't want to cram every nook and cranny with stuff we didn't get rid of in Montgomery. Our motto, "dejunk, dejunk, dejunk" and we aren't touching our "life memories". We are removing "we might need this one day" from our vocabulary!

When we come back to the closing on July 16th, I plan to walk DW through the house again and remind her of our motto! Wish me luck, as I do want to make it to our 43rd anniversary.

Our biggest challenge is we have separate computer rooms here, but must merge into an approx. 9X11 third bedroom in TV. I may have to set up a TV tray in my closet for a laptop!

[Redrok]

I've scanned all my family photos and we now see them on our TV and Computers as screens savers. Saved a lot of space when we got rid of the albums and we enjoy them much more too.

[asianthree]

Originally Posted by perrjojo

My husband had lots of photos, placques and awards from his 40 years in the aircraft industry. We have removed all the photos from the frames and taken photos of the placques and awards. I have then scanned them and am making them into a Shutterfly book. He will still have a record of all the memories without taking up all of the space. I had many family potraits on the walls and am doing the same with them.

Good Idea

[Dayzee]

We were very fortunate to already have most of the afore mentioned storage ideas installed in our home by the previous owner. However, there are several usuable spaces in our house that require something shallow. I happened to find some pieces at IKEA (Love IKEA!!!) that work great. We have made a habit of taking our shoes off at the door and since we generally come in through the garage I wanted something for shoe storage in our laundry area off the hallway. IKEA has a selection of cabinets (about 8" deep in various heights) with pull-down style storage. I purchased two - they take up little space, make a shallow space usable and match my white laundry room cabinets perfectly. We can store up to 12 pairs of shoes in one cabinet.

[Billyworld]

I have a Lantana with a two car garage and a cart garage. I am extending the cart garage 27 feet and blowing out the back wall to make it approx 40 feet long. Should hold my stuff. Concrete being poured today. Just another Idea to store "crap".

[getdul981]

Originally Posted by Billyworld

I have a Lantana with a two car garage and a cart garage. I am extending the cart garage 27 feet and blowing out the back wall to make it approx 40 feet long. Should hold my stuff. Concrete being poured today. Just another Idea to store "crap".

Now, that sounds like a good idea.