Do you hang out or just sit in your garage? If so, why?

Gosh no. My garage is cluttered and filthy. I prefer to not spend time in there if I can help it. There wouldn’t be much room to sit, either..
That’s very strange to me. Is there a hobby they work on in their garage? Or are they just sitting

I don’t sit in my garage, but I have sat in some of my friends’ garages before. The people I know do it either for shade or because it offers more space than their decks. One of my friends also has a refrigerator in the garage that they keep stocked with drinks, so they like to sit in the garage so they can easily get their next drink.

I wish I had a garage…

@le_inferno They are just sitting. Just watching cars drive down the street from what I can tell.

We used to have an enormous garage and I’d sit in there watching the rain. It was positioned so I had a complete view of the front of the house and the woods. This house doesn’t have such a view so I doubt if I’d do it but I’d consider it. I forget what rain looks like.

I’ve spent a considerable amount of time in my one friend’s shed and another friend’s garage. Back in the day (and still every once in a while) The Shed was a popular place to hang out.

I think garages/sheds offer privacy to some people. Also, I know that some people who wouldn’t smoke inside their houses don’t mind doing it in their sheds/garages.

Strange. I’ve never seen that because in my area the garages are behind the houses, and who would want to sit in his garage and watch the alley all day? I guess I can understand somebody wanting to do that for some of the reasons suggested above, but it seems kinda sad to me.

@Austinlad Ours is behind the house but you can see part of the backyard and the backs of the houses. It is not an unpleasant view at all but it is an alley.

No. Our garage is insufferably hot, cluttered with stuff nobody uses, or is otherwise occupied by a vehicle. Even if it was empty and we set up a little lounging area, there’s nothing to look at. We live in a complex up a hill – we’re surrounding by other houses that all look the same. And our neighbors aren’t the nicest folk.

We also don’t have a yard or usable. I was deprived.

I love my garage, I wish I spent more time in it. I love to work on cars and stuff like that, plus there is no wife around to nag. She doesn’t want to go out there.

I should revise my thinking about this garage thing. After all, look at all the bands and high-tech companies that have come out of them. ;-)

@Austinlad cute. In reply to an earlier post above, one doesn’t spend hours gazing outside. I used to spend no more than a half hour enjoying the rainfall. But we were so elevated, all alone on top of a steep hill, it was a whole other ballgame than here.

The people I’ve noticed hanging out in their garage seem to be, well, just hanging out, not working or anything. They are in lawn chairs, just sitting. What is strange is that the garage and the front porches face the same way. I always walk by thinking they are letting out a lot of air or heat, running up their electric bill.

@chyna maybe its just the thing to do =/

Apparently it’s how the “people of money” in the “upper class” neighborhood lives.
I’m across the street in the low income house. :-)

My husband does. He watches my daughter splash around in the kiddie pool or ride her bike. I consider the garage his man cave. I like the back porch for myself. I even have a TV. and trees. My daughter goes out back and we have a jungle gym out the and a grill. , a conaopy swing, a fire pit. Tiki Torches.. It is rather small but nice.

I have a lovely landscaped backyard, beautiful deck, patio. Nice garden. In 30 years, I have never sat back there. I’m out on the front porch all the time. Heaven forbid someone should pass and I not say hello. The porch runs the front of the house, 30 feet across and 10 feet deep, with wicker chairs, a table, even a lamp so I can sit out at night. Modern houses in the burbs tend not to be built with ample front porches.

Perhaps the garage sitters harken to an earlier heritage of porch-sitting.

BarnacleBill, Mayor of (insert name of street here ______).
I love your porch. I can actually visualize it.

In my old neighborhood, there was a family who spent so much time in their garage that they actually had a special screened garage door the put down. They barbecued out there and everything in the summer.

I think people do that now because they don’t make the awesome porches that the used to. My grandparents used to live like that on their front porch. In fact, once they got it screened in, they’d sleep out on the porch if it got too hot. My grandmother said when she was growing up, sitting on the porch and watching people walk or drive by was a big hobby in a small town. You just did everything out there and said hello to everyone who passed.

These days, you can’t even really do much under a porch except stand under it to slightly get out of the rain. (Well, we just moved into a place with the most awesome porch ever..we actually picked it because of the porch.) I think the garage is taking the place of the porch in some neighborhoods—especially ones where the neighbors like to take evening strolls in the summertime.

I don’t have a garage and my basement looks like a dungeon. It even has bats in it, no word of a lie.
I just sit in my livingroom and get drunk while watching movies about King Arthur.

My dad does this. I think he does it to get away from my mom and just relax and he knows the garage is the last place she’ll go. Plus, he loves working in his garage. Fixing cars, building things, etc.