I moved in to a house with a garage and my in laws are constantly trying to give us crap to fill it up.

I don’t even know where they’re getting this stuff, they just show up and are like “oh, we’re getting rid of this dresser, we thought you’d like it” or “or, I bought this antique trunk at a yard sale, can you hold on to it”.

Money and options are hurting my adaption rate

It ain’t the junk in the garage, it’s the $80k and the spyware

My parents have a garage full of junk. It used to drive me crazy. We have strong storms where we live and a tree/branches falling are a real possibility of damaging their cars. Plus hail storms sometimes.

It's mainly my moms stuff. Some of it is worth money but it's not being sold or anything.

If they used the garage as something other than storage it would be one thing. Instead it's full of stuff for no real reason.

Some of it is worth money but it’s not being sold or anything.

My mother refuses to admit she's a hoarder, and none of her things are really valuable. She's clean, it's not like she lives in filth, but she lives in 4000 square feet (main floor + basement) and has three full wall closets plus a room in the basement all filled with every item of clothing she has ever owned. I can barely fill a small closet with all my clothing. Her closets aren't small, either. They are about 15 feet wide, each. So three 15 feet wide closets absolutely crammed with shit, and each one of them has storage space broken into three sections, about three feet tall each above each closet. Everything is crammed full. None of it is ever pulled out to be used for anything. She has all these things from her family she has kept for "memories" but 1. they mean nothing to me because I hate my extended family and 2. I won't be able to afford to store them and won't have reason to when she's gone.

I don't fucking get it, it's a massive house, and it's just stuffed to the fucking brim with crap crap crap!

lol, this totally makes sense to me. It can’t be the only reason. But my lived experience tells me it’s not insignificant.

We have a one-car garage and two cars. I have a table saw, therefore we have a no-car garage.

Yup. Find me a car that respects my privacy and won't advertise to me and I'm in.

Edit to add: and no fuucking subscriptions to enable things the car can already do but disabled in software.

There are lots of factors that lead to people of her generation ending up like this. It’s really common.

One factor for some people, is not wanting to face how wasteful we are. It’s putting off the reality that it’s all landfill. Just one of many reasons. And I think it might be common with people who are not exactly hoarders, but also manage to hold on to so much.

Sure, they could donate it… but the rationalization could spin up again knowing that’s just another cope, because most of it will go from the donation place to the landfill.

pretty sure it's the lack of money that's hurting ev adoption.

There can be multiple factors.

People with garages big enough for a nice car that also have it stuffed with things probally have money too. Right?

How clean is your garage? Do you have one? Just curious.

with the used EV tax credit there are good options at ~20k.

edit: why downvotes? the used EV market is bigger every year and if the price is under $25k you get a ~$4k credit.

Me, who doesn't even have a garage: Yeah... That'e what stops me from getting an EV...

Currently parked in it!

Too real

you don’t even need a garage to charge your EV, just install it on the exterior.

How about talking to the landlords who refuse to install EV chargers? Or maybe talk to manufacturers who won't sell a basic EV that isn't overpriced?

This is just "Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong!" again.

Yeah lemme just do that on my apartment