Our first home was woefully inadequate for our physical needs . Our attraction to this, our first home purchase, was based on the price and on the massive 2 1/2 car garage at the back of the lot.  The extra furniture and accouterments of our life before children were stored in the garage,  I also packed away my law books, writing projects and mementoes of a single life. I would often refer to the stuff in the garage as my "garage life" as contrasted with my life as a stay-at-home mom,