Hi Reddit made an account on here, never really used Reddit before but I’ve asked my friends about this situation and I don’t feel like they’re being honest with me about this situation so thought I’d come here instead. So this happened last weekend and my wife still won’t talk to me except to insult me. I feel like I was genuinely trying to do something good, but maybe I messed up? I don’t know. My wife went out of town for four days to visit her mom. While she was gone, I decided to tackle the garage, it’s been a disaster zone since we moved in almost six years ago. I’ve brought it up before, but she always said she’d “get to it later” and that there were things in there she needed to go through herself. But she never did, and honestly, it was driving me crazy. I have wanted to convert the space for a while so I can use it as a hang out spot for me and a couple friends. So I took initiative and spent all weekend cleaning and organizing. I even bought new shelves and bins and labeled everything. I found a bunch of boxes in the back that looked like old school stuff, birthday cards, childhood art, some ratty stuffed animals, a couple sweaters that looked moth-eaten, etc. One of the boxes literally just had rocks in it (turns out they were from a hiking trip with her dad which I didn’t know at the time). It all looked like junk to me. Like, stuff you keep saying you’ll sort through but never do. I didn’t just toss everything, I skimmed through some of it to see if there was anything obviously important. There were a lot of old notebooks and papers with doodles, but nothing that looked critical. I genuinely thought I was helping by decluttering it. When she got back, I was excited to show her. I even set up a little area in the garage with a chair and a table where she could do her gardening stuff, which she always says she wants to do more of. At first, she seemed impressed until she noticed her boxes were gone. I told her I cleaned them out, and immediately her face changed. She asked if I went through them, and I said yes, sort of, but that it was mostly old stuff she never touched, so I figured it was safe to toss. Then she got really quiet, then really upset. She asked if I threw away the box with her dad’s drawings in it, or the box of rocks (he passed away when she was 13) I honestly had no idea what they were. Just old colored pencil sketches that looked like they were done by a kid, and random rocks maybe from beaches or a collection that was going to be used to like paint on to decorate the yard but never used. She said those were the only things she had left from him. I thought she would appreciate having the garage cleaned out, but now she says I should’ve waited for her or asked first, especially since she’s told me before that she needed to go through it herself. I don’t really know what to do or how to help the situation, but if possible I’d like some advice or opinions.