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[quote=Anonymous]Many of the reasons already cited:
Inclement weather - we have young children and sometimes we'll stay out until their bedtime.  We will then take 5 minutes to change them into jammies and then put them in the car where they'll fall asleep on the way home.  If we get home and it's very cold, very hot, raining, snowing, very windy, etc, they'll wake up.  In the garage, I can take them out and put them to bed without them waking.  We've done the same thing when traveling and usually when I get them out of the car, even when it's just a 10 ft walk to the door, they'll wake up and then it takes 30-45 minutes to get them back to sleep (they want a drink, they want a snack, they need to use the bathroom, they can't sleep, etc).  With twins, I often had to unload the kids by myself and in my garage with the door closed, I can take one in all the way to the bedroom and then come back for the other.  I could never do that with street parking.  Basically with street parking, you can't ever get two sleeping kids into the house by yourself without waking them.

Don't like clearing off the car just to use it.

The garage is also good usable space.  When the weather is too cold, rainy, snowy, windy, I can move the cars out to the driveway, close the door and the kids have a play space.  They can ride bikes, play with some toys we don't allow in the house, draw with chalk on the floors, run around and jump without destroying the furniture, etc.

I've used it to grill when it's raining without having to stand in the rain.

Nice big workspace at night.  I've worked in theater and I have painted flats and built large set pieces in my garage.  We've helped several productions by building set pieces before a show and then delivering it during tech week.  I build it and my wife paints it and she's a scene painter.  We can work on it over 2-4 nights after we put the kids to bed and have it ready to go when the theater needs it.  Even if you don't work on sets, it's a great workspace where you can use power tools or hammers at night without waking up the family and where you can leave the work set up to work on it several nights in a row.

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