I’ve got a gag order firmly in place, still, against talking too much about the new place until we’ve got keys in hand (soon. V. V. SOON.) but I can tell you about today: we have started PACKING.
Walls are becoming bare, books are getting commandeered off the shelves to pack amongst brick-a-brack. My dad is here, my trusty right-hand packing man who only complains about the music a little bit every 15 minutes as is his paternal right. The boxes, they’re being numerically entered into a CLIPBOARD (you know I’m loving it), and at the end of each day, the box log and its contents will be entered into the computer and printed up. Packing! You can do it! Computers can help!
There’s something glorious about the first day of packing where everything seems possible and flowcharts are positive and estimates are glowing for completion on time. Ahead of time, even! We’ll be waltzing around neatly stacked boxes by Wednesday! Ha ha hee hee ho ho!
Of course the reality is going to get more back-breaking and less organized every day and I fully expect all involved parties to seriously contemplate deflection and/or the window-expulsion technique of packing. Here, movers! CATCH!
But for now, it’s all rosy possibilities and easy book-packing. Anything you can do, I can do better! Tra la la! And other songs as well.
so it begins
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Woo! I love your recording system for packed stuff and I never even thought about movers stealing things…
The friends who helped us move thought my system was psycho enough. I separated things into piles like “fragile,” “can go at the bottom of stacks,” and so on. Whatever, it helped us not break anything!
Meanwhile, “Mommie Dearest” went back to RI, after a great Mother’s Day celebration in NY with her babies and is making the Roman Shades to dress the windows of the apto. in time for the “first night at Sunset”!
Looooove the Tom Robbins laughter that you inserted into your post. It made my day!
Okay I admit you didn’t ask for advice but for some reason I feel the need to share. If you buy those wonderful colored stickers you can then place a colored sticker that corresponds to the room it will go in at the new place. Then the wonderful movers can know that this box of very important things goes in the green room. While the box you don’t care about goes to the blue room. No reading on their part and it works on futurniture as well. That dresser it goes to the green room. They know this because there is a green dot on the door of the green room! Can I tell you how great this is when you are paying movers by the hour. It speeds things up. Trust me!
Oh man, help me pack. I’m moving to Australia in like 7 weeks and I’m seriously considering throwing everything (save books and clothes) OUT. OUT!
Moving makes me grrrrrrrrrr.
I could get released from prison and I’d be all, “Maaaan, now I am going to have to take down my posters and pack away my shivs and toilet-made wine?”
I called Boxes To Go to send me boxes, packing tape, scissors, and labels. It saved my life.
And also? Your dock on the ocean is waiting. I arranged your kayaks for you two today.