I wish I could clean and organize my stuff like a normal human and not have my brain turn it into a Big Thing. But I'm clearly making progress!

Some of these boxes were from a couple of moves ago, a couple were much newer. But surprisingly I was able to eliminate 7 boxes just by sorting items out that I have places for and putting them away, sorting some items into a separate tote and repacking the remaining contents into 2 similarly old doom boxes that were previously half full as well.

I now have a neat stack of doom boxes and totes where I previously had a much larger wild pile of collapsing doom boxes and stuff stacked on top of said boxes since it's in a bedroom that we haven't used for anything other than storage since my youngest started sleeping through the night, and the cats like to climb on the boxes and make the mess worse!

I had two screen doors have their handles break in short succession, one from a hail storm, the other just from overuse (I found the bottom part of the handle was never screwed in, so every pull was putting twice as much strain on it than it should have)

At first I reused the old button out of laziness, as they changed how the mechanism mates with the button on the broken handle, but then I tried the new button on the door with the broken button and found it was the same mechanism so I could fix both handles with one handle kit!

Next I need to get the correct tool to reinstall the screen that caught an elbow and clean up some of the dirt that's accumulated on the inside and we'll really be in good shape!

My small garage was built in the 40s and has wood siding which was damaged by a recent hail storm. Insurance cut us a settlement check and I decided to challenge myself to repaint the garage myself

The hail mostly damaged the paint, with some small chips in a couple of spots. My plan is to sand the portions that are to be repainted, fill the chips with wood filler and repaint

I'm looking at getting an air compressor (Partly as I'm seeing commentary on it being far easier and faster than rollers, and partly out of buying a tool I might not ever have a decent enough reason to buy in the future that'll be useful to have on hand) and a sprayer to do the bulk of the painting

Given I'm mostly looking to repair some quarter size damage to the paint splottered all over 2 sides of the garage, do I need to sand all of the old paint off before repainting or can I simply paint over the old paint? The old paint is in pretty good shape where the hail didn't sand it away. Looks like its been repainted within the century, possibly even within the last decade, and I'm not changing colors dramatically, just doing a flat "white" over a flat "white" which shouldn't be a very obvious difference after weathering. Basically am I reducing the durability of the paint job if I paint over the existing undamaged matte paint?

Additionally, any other gotchas I should be aware of?

I can provide photos tomorrow of the damage and existing paint if needed

Update: I ended up putting wood filler into the cracks, dents and gouges, sanding flat only where I put in wood filler and then painting over the existing paint and it turned out brilliantly. I only painted two sides of the garage as the other two were not damaged by the hail and have a bunch of overgrowth in the way so I'm planning on coming back this spring to cut back that overgrowth and paint the other two sides so they look just as good. The new paint so far has not shown any care for the sun, extreme heat, strong winds, rain, Aurora Borealis, snow, sleet, ice, extreme cold nor flash-freezes that mother nature has thrown at it since and the new paint simply continues to exist without any visual change