This moving stuff is for the birds!
We have 13 years of "baggage" here in this house and let me tell you, it is seeping out of the walls it seems. Moving for us is inevitable. Our plan is to put everything in storage and move to our summer/weekend home for the summer and possibly into the fall. Until the house is actually sold (we have a contract on it but no settlement date yet) we will keep furniture here and some basic items. There will be times we will be back here and spending the night or two. Other than that our plan is to get all the rest of the stuff packed and out.
I posted a couple weeks ago that I was unmotivated. I am motivated now and looking at all our STUFF is overwhelming. Most of the time I just say "pitch it".
To date we have had three yard sales each earning us a bit over $300. The most recent one we made $450! We have also sold another $200 on Craigslist. But we still have a ways to go. We have another room full of stuff for another yard sale which will be in a couple weeks. That will/should be our last one.
In packing my goal is to sort, group, and pack. I want to sort out the stuff we don't want to keep/no longer need/can't use and put that in one pile. Then I group all like objects together and pack them away in boxes.
We have collected all our plastic storage containers and are using them as much as we can. They stack well and can be moved easily as most have handles. The other boxes we get from the liquor store because they are sturdy but smallish so we can handle the size and weight easily. The big boxes are easy to pack but get heavy quickly.
At this point my house looks like a bomb blew up the inside or like it was burglarized.
We have some accomplishments at this point.
1. The attic has been cleaned out. It is all over my living room right now but there is nothing in the attic anymore.
2. My husband and I have cleaned out our closet and sorted through our clothes. We have gotten rid of 13 trash bags full of clothing. And YES we still have clothes to wear. And YES a lot of those bags were my clothes. LOL
3. We have moved three loads of boxes and furniture into storage.
4. We also have sorted through all our stuff already in storage and got rid of almost half of it to go to a yards sale or Goodwill. (That is amazing! To think we were storing stuff we could have gotten rid of a long time ago....)
Things I can't deal with right now:
1. my scrapbook stuff - I have a ton of it and I just can't go through it and sort and get rid of it.
2. a final sort of our homeschool supplies - again I just can't go through it and weed out stuff. I just don't know what I will need because I am not planning next year yet other than basic subjects.
Our move out date is the end of May. That is putting our stuff in storage and moving to our summer place. The house and basic stuff will stay here in our house until it is sold. But by the end of May we should be living more time at our summer place than here in town. (fingers crossed)
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