LOL, Ken -- your wife is obviously smarter than I am! I must have harvested quite a bit more garlic than I usually do (maybe I should start weighing it, so I would actually know...), because I gave quite a bit away, and also used a good bit for replanting in the fall. And I still have plenty of the softneck garlic for fresh use.
I tried using the peeling method of putting the cloves in a jar and shaking it -- which didn't work at all for me (possibly because a lot of the cloves that I was using were pretty small).