Tuesday - November 27, 2012

Snowballed

Living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom are done. Empty and cleaned. Attic is empty. Only have to go back and spackle up a few nail holes in the walls.

Bedroom 1 is 2/3 done. Laundry room is 1/2 done. Garage is 2/3 done. That’s my list for today if I can swing it; it’s snowing HARD outside right now.

Bedroom 2 is a freakin’ disaster area, with stuff strewn everywhere and piles of junk that would make a hoarder proud.

I carved up about 40lb of cardboard boxes last night for recycling.  They were all up in the attic. Audiophiles always try to save the original boxes the equipment comes in, just in case it ever has to go back to the factory. Fug that. We bought the speakers in 1997 and they’re still working just fine, so the fantastic shipping boxes they came in ... on their own little pallets, with Masonite liners in the boxes and multiple layers of cardboard, surely the greatest boxes ever made ... they can go. I have enough spare gear to build an entire second home theater/stereo, mostly with “mid-fi” components from the middle 90s. Yippee.

God, I hope we can get this done by the end of the month. Worst case, I hope we can have everything out of the house by then. I doubt if the landlord cares if there’s a bit left in the garage, as long as we send him a couple bucks for carryover rent.

Damn, we’ve been living like pack rats. I never noticed it, since that condo has huge closets everywhere. This place doesn’t, so thinning stuff out is going to be our new hobby. Once we’ve moved, it will be a box of stuff a day: look at the stuff and decide whether to toss it, or how to work it into the space we have. Emphasis on TOSS IT.

I know, you guys are sick to death of these We’re Moving posts. Imagine how I feel, spending 6 or more hours a day at it. Every day of the month, outside events notwithstanding.

Posted by Drew458     on 11/27/2012 at 08:41 AM   
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