Thanksgiving week....

[indigo_rose99]

Friends are wonderful people. My almost-brother J drove down the Sunday before Thanksgiving and stayed until we broke him (he claims it was the washer, but I knew it was coming) on Saturday. He made it feel like my birthday and Thanksgiving and a holiday even as we woke up at 6am every morning and worked at packing and moving all day every day.

We started moving stuff to the new house on Monday. We took loads over every day. Friday and Saturday were the big days with the 26-foot truck with the pneumatic lift. T loved that lift. And chikaru (hero of Saturday's furniture move) loves the forearm lifting straps.Yeah, it turns out that in 17 years of living in one house, we acquired enough stuff to fill a 26-foot truck twice. And still we are not done. *sigh*  This after I spent about 6 months Getting Rid of Stuff I Did Not Want to Move. But the rest can hopefully go by car or pickup truck.

I actually started unpacking Sunday afternoon. T hooked up the washer and dryer. We still have a punchlist of items that need to be done at the new house, but... unpacking can start. Sadly, I was trying to generate boxes and packing materials to bring back to the old house to fill again.... but a start is a start.

I will say that having a system on my boxes is pretty awesome. Yesterday I wanted to unpack stuff from the kitchen. Find a box labeled "Kitchen," look up the contents in my database.... No, I do not need my grandmother's china. T hasn't settled on where the buffet will stay, so no china. What about dishes? Glasses?  Yep, find a box, check the contents in my database and decide if it is the right time to unpack it. Yay! This means we won't have 50 opened-but-not-unpacked boxes cluttering up everything while T sorts out where he wants the furniture to finally land. Yeah, he asks my advice, but for  the most part I don't care. I give him my big picture wish ("I want a surface to put a drink on at both ends of the TV couch."), but otherwise leave the implementation up to him. He'll figure out something that will satisfy both of us. 

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[(Anonymous)]

Wish I could be there to help...Texpenguin

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

Me, too. Can I mention LivingDeb? She doesn't do heavy large box lifting. So she cleaned under my dryer (totally disgusting after they moved it!). She cleaned my stove (it looks like new!). She cleaned my baseboards! She quietly made things a lot easier on us.

[reedrover]

I love your database! I am all envious of your organization skills and application of said skills. I still hold out hope that I am even so organized as to have a *list* when I get to my next move.

[mr-efficient.livejournal.com]

You're reminding me why I just wrote a big check to have all my stuff boxed and moved by trained professionals.

[indigo-rose99.livejournal.com]

*wistful sigh* Yeah, if we could have afforded it, we would have. But T plans to spend the money that might have gone toward trained moving professionals to a riding mower (we have more than 4 very overgrown acres and while the neighbors have not complained to our faces yet... they will.) and blinds. T is big on privacy. Finding neighbors walking through the house after we had moved in was... An unpleasant shock. So, blinds and lots of locks. We don't think they were here to steal, just being nosy and walking their dirty shoes all over my new carpet.

I'm still mad about that. Every time I find dirt on the carpet I grind my teeth about it. The neighbors are NOT the high point of our new house...

Anyway, that money cannot provide blinds for the whole house, but it is a start.