We are pacing in readiness for our move...supposed to be Dec. 31, but our landlord has not settled the 30 months left on our lease. We don't want to go till that is done. It is difficult to hire a mover saying "I'll gladly pay you Thursday for a move you do today." Especially if you are not sure you will get enough to pay the bill!
My husband had his Bible Study buddies over on Friday (Remembrance Day...and remember what friends are for day!) and they moved a LOT of stuff.
Picture this cupboard (tilt your head a bit and squint) full to the top with the orange boxes pictured below. My button stash and my upholstery fabric stash.
I filled this up to the top again today in readiness for the next moving day. All larger boxes with fabric and my yarn stash in them. I emptied a cabinet that we are going to use in the dining room in the new place. These two bookshelves will go to when we move the office, they are the back wall for it.
Two bookshelves just like these and the boxes of all the books that were packed solidly in them went to the new place, and three boxes of books went to my Art Quilting group. I spent the day with them as my DH did not want me around annoying the young fellows who were moving. (i.e. mud on floors, breakage, putting stuff in the wrong place at our new home......etc.) I managed to forward three boxes of books to friends this way, had to bring very few home again.
On the way home we stopped at the new place, and I did have to spend an hour with a very nice fellow moving boxes to their proper place so that the heavy furniture can be placed exactly the first time. I do not want to have to play Chinese Puzzle with boxes and heavy furniture when I get there. I planned out on graph paper exactly where everything is to go. We only want to schlepp the furniture around once.
Notice the ties are all gone...seven big boxes! More empty boxes a table to be sorted and a willing to help cat. We are finding a multitude of cat toys behind and under stuff. The cat is happy. (This morning while I was on the loo he brought me a little orange ball and we played fetch for a looong time. He had me captured on the throne and at his mercy, and he brought the ball right back to my feet every time.....he has no off button!)
I also swept up enough cat hair to make another cat! I am going to have to find a way to keep stuff from creeping or being played under the rolling bins. I might just leave the wheels off after the move.
And yes I do feel a bit topsy-turvy.......guess where they put stuff that was on the furniture that I did not want moved yet...yep, you're right...on the nearest flat surface. And yes I had to go and get some stuff for the commission I am doing (has to be done before Christmas) and bring it back! Lots of packing yet to do.
But I refuse to whinge about the small stuff, those guys worked very hard and I am sooo grateful. They were using two vans and two pick-up trucks and they made two trips each fuelled only by two boxes of donuts! Next time I will have Pizza for them, but I wasn't there. Remember...I had been sent away for the day!
One of our friends hid a big box of ties (rose boxes from the flower shop, 1' x 1' x 4') on me. He is always teasing me that I have too much stash, only that is not what he calls it. I noticed right away and remarked about it. I had found in the garage, but was not going to let on. Today I told him that if he touched that tie box in the garage I would tear his arm off and stick the wet end in his ear!We had a good laugh.
I have finished packing for today, but I must admit that it is lovely to go through it all and fondle it a bit while repacking it.
Tired but satisfied sigh,
Dianne Leatherdale Johnson
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