I'm now realizing how much c**p I've (we've) accumulated in 43 years of marriage, 35 years in the same house, and 29 years in business as a surveyor.
Fortunately, it's only local.
1. Clean out large living room alcove
2. Move office next door into alcove. Note, alcove is about 1/2 as big as the former office and the door from the office is only 1'11" wide. A few big things have to go out the back office door, in the back kitchen door, through the kitchen, dining room, and living room. Lots of extra stuff now in the living room awaiting a decision on location.
3. Repaint new bedroom/former office.
4. Move upstairs bedroom downstairs into former office. This requires moving stuff down a narrow stairway and out a large removable (with difficulty) window at the bottom onto the back porch then directly in a larger back door to the former office. Note: the former office is about 2/3 the size of the upstairs bedroom.
5. Figure out what to do with the stuff still in the living room. Upstairs to the bedroom, downstairs to the unfinished basement, or out the door to trash or giveaway.
We're 3 days into it, currently partway through Step 2, and I'm tired of it all.
Time to contact a local auctioneer to set up a household auction. Let almost everything go except great-grandma's crib and teddy bear. Close your eyes and just do it.
Time for a '3 Step' Yard Sale...
Day One....Step One...price it as what it is really worth...hope it doesn't rain
Day Two...Step Two...price it so you won't have to store it...dang...run to WalMart for some blue tarps...
Day Three...Step Three...salvage the tarps and put the rest of the sodden crap out on the curb for free...three days before trash pickup..
DDSM:beer:
Tyler-
Have you adjusted your "Cat Swing" length for your new office yet ?
I suggest that you also may need to calibrate your "RB/Someter" (Rubber Boot per Second)when you try to escape SWMBO's Job Jar, within a smaller, more efficient venue !
TNAI
There are dirty jobs, hot jobs, cold jobs and many more - moving is the worst job I've ever had to do.
We re floored the house several years ago. It helped that the wife was visiting sisters that live in another country. Had to move the office and a place to sleep 4 times in the course of 2 weeks time. Everything non essential was put under the shed or on the big front porch.
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I got tired just reading about it...
I had a cousin who was stationed overseas while in the military. His wife decided to stay in the states and he asked me to help her move. They had a queen size bed with a one-piece box spring. Naturally, the bed had to go to the second floor. The stairway went up about 4 steps then turned 90° and went up the rest of the way. No matter which way we turned those box springs, they wouldn’t make the turn. I finally took up the carpet and removed about half the stair treads so we could stand the springs on end in the stairwell, then rotate them 90° and hoist them up the rest of the way. Then I had to replace all the treads and re-lay the carpet.
When hubby got reassigned back to states about six months later and she decided to join him, guess who she called to help her move.
Our steps take a 90° turn 2 steps up. When we moved in, we found the original owners/builders of this old house (about 1928) had cut a mattress-sized hole to the back porch at the turn so that stuff could go straight up. We had a full sized removable window installed there to replace the boarded-up hole.
With the stair headroom, we got a queen sized mattress upstairs. Only about 2" clearance though.
Go hire the strongest defensive linemen from the local HS. Show them your game plan. They will have you done moving the furniture by noon 1st day. Have a nice rack of ribs ready for each of them and too many tubs of slaw.
Have you ever noticed that if you buy a new home that is teice as big as the old one, all your crap won't fit in it?
(The new office doorway is 1'11" wide???? Don't EVEN try to tell me that you can walk through that door!! I'd turn that opening into a book shelf!)
Category Police
this should be in Humor- I'm having a good laugh at Tyler's expense....:-D
