We moved into our house six weeks ago, but the lease on our apartment is only up on Monday. With the large overlap, we didn’t rush to move everything right away — we concentrated on getting the essentials into the house. You know what’s coming next, right?
Six weeks later, there was still quite a large amount of UN-essential stuff left in our apartment. Some of it is stuff we use but not frequently. Some of it has sentimental value. And most of it is just crap that we’ve accumulated over the years.
Instead of making a thousand back-and-forth trips with my car, today after I finally got up (at the respectable hour of 12:45; pretty soon I’ll be up before noon!) Jose and I rented a U-haul and cleaned out the rest of the apartment in one fell swoop. Four hours, two trips, and four bottles of Gatorade, we were done. It sucked. We both hate moving, and we both hate that we have so much stuff, but we put off moving it so long that of course we didn’t have time to actually sort through everything. Instead, it all came to the house. Where it is now sitting in the garage.
Hopefully we can be more timely about getting it out of the garage?
We got back to the house with just enough time for me to shower and dress for work. I was so tight on time that I had to use my car as a hair dryer. What, you’ve never heard of using a car as a hair dryer? It’s very easy. Just put both front windows down as you drive on the highway. It’s surprisingly effective, as long as you can keep your hair out of your eyes so that you can actually see.
And there’s your helpful tip for the day.
Jaclyn and I had to endure three moves when we built our house. In each and every move we got rid of a bunch of crap and you know what – we still have crap!
Now just make sure to actually get to it soon or I’ll see you in a few years on Mission Organization on HGTV. This is how it always starts. Innocently. 🙂
You essentially have about 4 weeks to go through that stuff. After that it will remain there for all time…
I agree with Karen. The same thing happened to us, but with us the hubby placed it all in the attic. You know the saying, “Out of sight, out of mind?”. Yeah well, it’s all still there! I’ve made a couple of trips to the attic to get some cookbooks, but other than that it’s been pretty much forgotten. One day we’ll get to it…like when the kids are in college!