Some people renovating their homes or investing in a new garage door first take stock of what they have in their garage, and then decide what to do. As a brave example, I will examine the current contents of my backyard garage (not connected to the house):
Four bicycles, only one big enough for an adult. Several spiderman helmets. At least five giant water-guns and water-bazookas. An old torn rubber hose. A large stack of giant, dusty planks of wood. They smell like rot and earth. A parliament of ceramic owls. An old oak desk. A vacuum cleaner.
A red plastic bin full of old costume and dress up things. An old tarp. A very long saw that has rusted over. A ping pong table and ping pong paddles and ping pong balls that have been squashed. Several pounds worth of spider webs. Children's roller skates. Several metal rods and poles from an old swing set, no swing. An unidentifiable metal tube. A set of drapes. A tire iron. Three rolled up carpets, musty. A box of old china. Several rat corpses.
Clearly, I have my work cut out for me. Throwing away things I will never use again, learning to part with things that I PROBABLY will never use again. Organizing the things I want to keep into some sort of coherent order. Disentangling several extension cords, hauling out old bikes. Then, cleaning out the garage itself- dislodging sobwebs, exterminating bugs, clearing out alarming brown spots and piles of dirt and dust.
But once that's done, our garage will actually be able to be used for something. And once I convince everyone that we need a new garage door opener, this room will be a pimping new garage band space, with guitars, a keyboard, and mics. And a drum kit.