Car Tetris: level up

We have three cars parked in a two-car garage, and at the moment there are three cars in the driveway. My wife will soon arrive home, making it four cars parked in a longish, two-lane driveway. Yeah, I know.

Tomorrow morning I'm leaving with the car parked in the right side of the garage. My wife is leaving a little before me, though. So, thinking ahead, I just moved the three cars in the driveway into the left lane. My wife will block me into tonight, but once she leaves I'll have a clear shot out of the driveway.

Of course, my battery will probably be dead or something.

I know your pain well. At the moment I have 7 cars, two buses, 4 trailers and a boat, in the front drive, back drive and behind the shop. It's a constant battle of moving something to get to another something. Unfortunately some stuff is going to have to go.

Just so long as they don't disappear when you get the lined up with each other!

I found a house that is on the corner lot with on street parking and 2 driveways for just this kind of situation

There must have been another house sometime in the last 100+ years. One of the few benefits in living in collapsed industry boom town.

We just park all over the yard all willy nilly.

Our driveway is a crooked funnel that tapers from our 2-car garage to a single-car width and, angles twice before reaching the street. There's no room to(safely) park on the street either.

The only good thing is we have a bit of room on the sand/dirt/grass next to the driveway, but it's a narrow entrance between the shrubbery and fence - it's also a soggy pit from the 4-days of heavy rain this week.

We have both boys living here now, and the girls(with friends) will be here for a week next Friday, so we'll be juggling 5 vehicles and 8 people. That'll be a mess.

In reply to David S. Wallens: My Life Resembles that remark, the City recently helped me Make a Decision on some of the extra cars.

Typical sights outside my old garage. Trying to keep everything inside my property line.

Not to brag but my odd "driveway" is more of a parking lot. I can park 8 cars across and still move any one without disturbing the others.
On occasions where that is not enough I have a real parking lot next door that is never full. Last winter I left 3 cars there, unmoved for 3 months.

Currently I have 6 cars in the "driveway".

Just the other day we were expecting two visitors. Though we had room for the 2 additional cars I intentionally moved 2 cars over to the parking lot so the visitors wouldn't think they came at a bad time since 6 cars in the drive makes it look like you have company.

We have seven cars and only two outside. Any of them can move without another blocking them. I could host a bunch of people without parking any of the cars in. I'm spoiled now! (Only lived here ~two years and there's no way I could go back)

I have two cars in my driveway. And one car in SyntheticBlinkerFluids driveway. And one car in swankforceone's driveway. And one in a barn in Minnesota.

I have the Porsche in one garage bay. The other garage bay can fit the e30 for work if the weather is bad (a few things on wheels need to be moved for that to happen). The WRX and CX-9 and rally car usually in the driveway. Sequoia (tow pig) on the street (it's a cul-de-sac), and both the big trailer and my mini-trailer parked behind a privacy fence on the side of the house.

I don't have to do much tetris with cars except when I have the trailer in the driveway with the rally car on it (usually a day or two before events). Once the Porsche can actually be driven, will have to do some car-moving depending on what I feel like driving...

My house is definitely turning into Tetris. Two cars in a 1.5 car garage ('03 TDI and GT6). Two in the back yard (crusty 1800ES and Jetta wagon parts car). Two in the driveways (Spitfire in the driveway to the garage, Grand Caravan in the second driveway to the side). Car #7 will likely be coming home tomorrow, which will just barely fit in the garage driveway.

At that point, I will be 100% out of room and I will really need to figure something out before Winter so at least one of the dailies can live in the garage. If all goes well, the parts Jetta and the Grand Caravan will be gone and maybe I'll have some sort of semi-permanent cover in the back yard.

The semi-amusing part is the Tetris analogy extends inside as well. I have 7 bikes stuffed into my living room and it's a PITA when I need to get to one in the back of the group...

While out front today, I realized that we have the GRM Holy Trinity going on here at home, too: Miata, Mustang, M3. (The rest of the Tetris pieces include Civic Si, Porsche 911 and BRZ; in the place of a P71 we have our '75 Pontiac wagon.)

When shopping for a house, I made sure to find one with a decent driveway. It took priority over a large garage!

Mine currently is a 2-car garage and a 2-car wide driveway. It's on a cul-de-sac so I have plenty of street parking too. Parents have a nice 2-car garage and a patch on the side of the driveway to fit 2 more cars without blocking anything in. Shame it's on such a steep of an incline. I eventually want to pave the side yard and add a garage in the back yard so I can have plenty of driveway space.

HA! I know of one member here that has 5 cars in a 2 car garage.

In reply to Spinout007:

That's not a 2 car garage!

We have one car in the one-car-plus-shop garage, two wedged onto our side of the shared driveway (Foo! Never doing that again!), and a van out front.

The extent to which I should be autocrossing an E36, Miata, E30 or something this season instead of the Mini is substantial, and parking is the reason it's not happening. The Ranchero has its turn in the shop, the 2002 is sacred, and the Mini actually takes us places (while the van takes our stuff).

Never mind the fact that parking's so tight I can't even sneak in extra motorcycles.

I feel bad for some of you for the tight parking, but I stand in awe of your ability to overcome.

I'm lucky in this regard. can fit 3 across in front of the house where the white miata is, the carport is 23x25 I know I can fit 3 easily, 4 depending on size. Then along the driveway is where I fill in during parties.

It's probably a good thing I'm broke or this place would be a junkyard.

Tengen or Nintendo Tetris? Because one is superior.