Wow, we sure do work fast.
When we started to pack things up it seemed like it would take simply forever. Wednesday Lib & I wanted to get the garage cleared out so we could put things out for the rag & bone man who was coming friday morning. And boy howdy, did we manage it! We took 4 truck loads of stuff to the shed. And that included condensing boxes, repacking boxes that were dead or dying and loading it all up. And the majority of boxes we have? You guess it: books. I think we have an endless supply of books. The only thing we have in the garage right now are furniture that our hired muscle will help move next week. It's nice to have male friends.
And with the garage all but done, we looked inward. So we were up at 6, got the stuff out for the rag & bone man and they were taking only metal and electronics- not what the flyer they put out said. Hopefully vultures will come by tonight and take what we don't want. But then, this ain't exactly Hull and we don't exactly have Travelers walking the streets looking for things to take. But we do get scavengers every now and then. By 7:30 we had a truck full of stuff to take over to Goodwill- but only after a spot of breakfast. By 8:15 we were back home and putting things into boxes. Our living room is stacked with boxes, boxes and even more boxes. In some cases we even have box-ception which will make things fun when we open them.
We're even being really smart about the labeling too! We're writing what's inside the box along with the year of closing (eg., memorabilia 2013) so we know when something was last opened. We had some Christmas decoration Mom & I had gotten when we first moved into this house because we couldn't find our regular decorations for the tree and last year my sister bought more tree decorations so we had quite a few boxes. It's nice though because we have 2 boxes full of the more traditional decorations we've had for ages and the newer, slightly less sentimental, ornaments from the last few years. At least we have lights that work.
I can't even begin to imagine how much stuff we've gotten rid of. It seems to be the way, whenever you move you get rid of things you don't really need and then, when you unpack from a move, you throw even more things out.
But now it is the 26th and we were hoping to be out by the 1st and it looks like we just might do it too. And, for the most part we're done packing. Oh sure, there's a few odds and ends and then there's food we have to go through and figure out what to do with it but we're done packing. Mostly.
The hard part comes next: getting everything out. We have things left in the garage that we're going to need to clear out, break down, and move. And won't that be fun? It seems quite daunting right now. It's one thing to get the house pretty much packed up but now it's time to clear it all out and make it all pretty.
We're hoping to have friends come on Saturday to help us clear out the furniture that we can't quite do on our own- at least, not easily. God willing we'll be able to get a place by then (knock on wood) but I'm not holding my breath. If we do though, then we'll be able to move all that furniture right into the new house and won't that be simply grand? :)
So, we'll see what happens over the next couple of days. Today we're going to turn in applications to rent a house for a bit. Hopefully the fact that two of us really aren't working much right now isn't going to be an issue.
When we started to pack things up it seemed like it would take simply forever. Wednesday Lib & I wanted to get the garage cleared out so we could put things out for the rag & bone man who was coming friday morning. And boy howdy, did we manage it! We took 4 truck loads of stuff to the shed. And that included condensing boxes, repacking boxes that were dead or dying and loading it all up. And the majority of boxes we have? You guess it: books. I think we have an endless supply of books. The only thing we have in the garage right now are furniture that our hired muscle will help move next week. It's nice to have male friends.
And with the garage all but done, we looked inward. So we were up at 6, got the stuff out for the rag & bone man and they were taking only metal and electronics- not what the flyer they put out said. Hopefully vultures will come by tonight and take what we don't want. But then, this ain't exactly Hull and we don't exactly have Travelers walking the streets looking for things to take. But we do get scavengers every now and then. By 7:30 we had a truck full of stuff to take over to Goodwill- but only after a spot of breakfast. By 8:15 we were back home and putting things into boxes. Our living room is stacked with boxes, boxes and even more boxes. In some cases we even have box-ception which will make things fun when we open them.
We're even being really smart about the labeling too! We're writing what's inside the box along with the year of closing (eg., memorabilia 2013) so we know when something was last opened. We had some Christmas decoration Mom & I had gotten when we first moved into this house because we couldn't find our regular decorations for the tree and last year my sister bought more tree decorations so we had quite a few boxes. It's nice though because we have 2 boxes full of the more traditional decorations we've had for ages and the newer, slightly less sentimental, ornaments from the last few years. At least we have lights that work.
I can't even begin to imagine how much stuff we've gotten rid of. It seems to be the way, whenever you move you get rid of things you don't really need and then, when you unpack from a move, you throw even more things out.
But now it is the 26th and we were hoping to be out by the 1st and it looks like we just might do it too. And, for the most part we're done packing. Oh sure, there's a few odds and ends and then there's food we have to go through and figure out what to do with it but we're done packing. Mostly.
The hard part comes next: getting everything out. We have things left in the garage that we're going to need to clear out, break down, and move. And won't that be fun? It seems quite daunting right now. It's one thing to get the house pretty much packed up but now it's time to clear it all out and make it all pretty.
We're hoping to have friends come on Saturday to help us clear out the furniture that we can't quite do on our own- at least, not easily. God willing we'll be able to get a place by then (knock on wood) but I'm not holding my breath. If we do though, then we'll be able to move all that furniture right into the new house and won't that be simply grand? :)
So, we'll see what happens over the next couple of days. Today we're going to turn in applications to rent a house for a bit. Hopefully the fact that two of us really aren't working much right now isn't going to be an issue.
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