Name: Fred and Cyndy
Location: Washington Heights
Pitch:
We call this the Workout Closet. It's a standard sized closet in our bedroom, but my husband has stashed most of our weights and various assorted exercise doodads in it. I am partly to blame for this mess. I told my husband that the only way we could have a bench in a Manhattan apartment was if he stashed it someplace inconspicuous.
I wish I had video of him trying to fit the bench into the closet. It's become so difficult to pull this bad boy out , he'll only pull it half way out when he works out. [more below...]
seriously. why would you keep broken appliances? they are broken. they do not work. therefore you are not likely to be needing them anytime soon. my rule of thumb about hanging on to broken stuff is that if within 6 months i don't get around to either repairing or replacing it, i don't need it enough to justify keeping it around 'just in case' i have a hankering to rewire that lamp or whatever.
is that a can of spam I see? either eat it or throw it away. how ridiculous. or, um, put it in the kitchen where it belongs.
also, this closet could benefit from taking everything out and trying to find a functional way of storing it all rather than just stacking everything haphazardly on top of everything else. i see what looks like plenty of shelf space up top for less frequently used items, whereas you have all these random odds and ends piled up at the bottom. maybe get some boxes?
as for the exercise equipment, i honestly don't think it would be so terrible if you just made some vague attempt to store it efficiently. and if that really isn't possible, um, that's what gym memberships are for.
I am usually a lurker, but I had to respond to the opoponax. um, what's with the attitude? Clearly they know the closet is a mess. do you know how obnoxious all those 'um's' are?
He's being realistic. No point in wasting a professionals time by sending him/her to this persons apartment.