Packing the house……
Ok so it finally seems real, we have begun the packing phase.
Wait! I thought you were still waiting on papers? Have you sold you house?
These are very excellent questions and I shall answer them in turn.
Yes…….No…….
However, the fact that we have yet to receive official paperwork to legalize our move, and the absence of a pending sale of our house does not mean that we are not in the midst of packing. You see, I am married to a J (of the Myers-Briggs Type see this link for more detail or this one for detail on INTJs) and so we need to start early for the move so that we are not rushed at the last minute getting everything completed. Since we do not have control over the speed of the paperwork process or the sale of our house, we must control what we can, and that means packing early.
If you will recall from the previous post (http://gilgrimes.blogspot.com/2008/06/movingdo-it-yourself-or-hire-it-out.html) we have hired the Mayflower company to move our stuff. As a value added benefit, they will give us all the used boxes we need to pack our stuff. So yesterday we headed to the office and loaded up on boxes. Since they had just off-loaded a family we got most of their boxes and all their used wrapping paper. This is saving us a bundle, and it meant that we could begin the packing in earnest. We started with all the glass and crystal since we had so many dish-pack boxes and it allows us to free up the china cabinet so we can get that back to mother prior to our move. It was amazing how easily things went, so very unlike our previous moves, things flowed. It may be that we had plenty of time to pack the room up, or that it was happening early, either way it was nice not to have to rush the packing job.
Having cleaned out the china cabinet we turned out attention to Nancy’s study. We packed 90% of her books and cleared out her desk. We have not decided if we are keeping the desk or not, but we have cleared it out none the less. We also decided to make Nancy’s study the storage area for the packed boxes.
Other news…….
I am not sure if you all are watching the Flikr web site where I am posting photos, but I am posting some of my sketch work as well. I have to utilize a scanner form a friend so it will be intermittent, but I am planning on getting a scanner soon and I should be able to add more. I am trying to include a little information about the sketch so that it makes a bit more sense.
Well that is it for today………Had a couple look at the house………….Hope they want it.
Ok so it finally seems real, we have begun the packing phase.
Wait! I thought you were still waiting on papers? Have you sold you house?
These are very excellent questions and I shall answer them in turn.
Yes…….No…….
However, the fact that we have yet to receive official paperwork to legalize our move, and the absence of a pending sale of our house does not mean that we are not in the midst of packing. You see, I am married to a J (of the Myers-Briggs Type see this link for more detail or this one for detail on INTJs) and so we need to start early for the move so that we are not rushed at the last minute getting everything completed. Since we do not have control over the speed of the paperwork process or the sale of our house, we must control what we can, and that means packing early.
If you will recall from the previous post (http://gilgrimes.blogspot.com/2008/06/movingdo-it-yourself-or-hire-it-out.html) we have hired the Mayflower company to move our stuff. As a value added benefit, they will give us all the used boxes we need to pack our stuff. So yesterday we headed to the office and loaded up on boxes. Since they had just off-loaded a family we got most of their boxes and all their used wrapping paper. This is saving us a bundle, and it meant that we could begin the packing in earnest. We started with all the glass and crystal since we had so many dish-pack boxes and it allows us to free up the china cabinet so we can get that back to mother prior to our move. It was amazing how easily things went, so very unlike our previous moves, things flowed. It may be that we had plenty of time to pack the room up, or that it was happening early, either way it was nice not to have to rush the packing job.
Having cleaned out the china cabinet we turned out attention to Nancy’s study. We packed 90% of her books and cleared out her desk. We have not decided if we are keeping the desk or not, but we have cleared it out none the less. We also decided to make Nancy’s study the storage area for the packed boxes.
Other news…….
I am not sure if you all are watching the Flikr web site where I am posting photos, but I am posting some of my sketch work as well. I have to utilize a scanner form a friend so it will be intermittent, but I am planning on getting a scanner soon and I should be able to add more. I am trying to include a little information about the sketch so that it makes a bit more sense.
Well that is it for today………Had a couple look at the house………….Hope they want it.
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Good luck with your move--I will be waiting for more installments.
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