Hi,
The move has begun. I am sitting and singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall" with slightly altered lyrics. I'm getting a little punch drunk with this whole affair.
It's going well. This is day #2 and everything is boxed and wrapped. Only one casualty, a ceiling fixture got whacked and cracked, not a huge deal breaker, $20 at Home Depot will cover it. I did have to threaten one of the younger crew members that if I caught him playing with his phone one more time I was going to take it away from him or send him home. This is work and you are not getting paid to text your buddies all day. He was shocked that I let him know I was not going to put up with his phone addiction on my dime..... His co-workers applauded my action, literally. I also told the supervisor about the phone problem, he congratulated me on my effort to control this behavior. My guess is this young man doesn't get to work another job with this company. Just call me Mrs. Meany.
I have to say the house inventory is certainly over whelming when you see it piled in every room. You think you don't own anything until the cupboards, drawers, desks, closets, and cubbyholes are emptied out. Then there are the piles of furniture. Literally piles. The estimated weight of our whole load is 18,000 lbs., or what two good size elephants weigh. There are 270 line items on the inventory packing list, 150 of them are 'boxes' containing everything from the kitchen spoons to the coasters. The rest are furniture pieces, mirrors, art works... Who knows? I'm sure most of this is really not even ours at all. It snuck into the house when I wasn't looking.... Along with the dust bunnies I promise you do not live here.
When I made the list of everything we have going into storage, yes everything, it was a frightening number that we totaled up. We had to look up and assign a replacement cost to it all. That rocked my world. When did we even have time to purchase all this chazerai? If you ever want to figure out where all your money goes try itemizing every item in your life. There is your answer and it probably isn't pretty.
We do have less things than we started with a month ago. Donations, garbage sorting, garage sale, give it away, burn it to the ground, do a David-Copperfield-and-make-it-disappear trick.... Anything to lighten up the load. That has worked some magic on stuff. I wish I could be Tinker-bell and wave fairy dust in everything to bring on some instant evaporation or vaporization with a ray gun.... I know that would be a huge seller if I could design and manufacture such a toy. Zap, you're toast!
The purging is done, the rest is all wrapped up. It's all over but the goodbye song tomorrow as they load the truck.... So long, farewell, auf vederzen, adieu.....
Xox
M
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