Thursday, March 20, 2014

Getting ready to move

A practice session helps

This process began a couple of years ago when we decided we were ready to list the house. There was a lot of purging done or so I thought. We packed up a storage locker full of items we were not ready to part with but realized we would not need in the near future. This was done in an effort to  declutter the house for showing purposes. We never expected the sale to take almost 2 years. That turned out to be a blessing  as we have realized that much of what we thought was important is now so much easier to part with after it has not been around for so long. We did have to make our build  plans smaller than we had originally thought so a go through of our 'stuff' is required to lessen its amount after the reduction in home size. It is still a daunting task to pack your whole life into boxes.

The fact that we are moving into an apartment for two months while we wait for the warmer weather does make things different.  As we prepare to move on Saturday we have found a very easy and inexpensive means to mark boxes. For us we have boxes that are not needed until the build is complete, we marked them red. Boxes that may be wanted before the build is complete but are not necessities are marked blue. Finally boxes that are required while we are building we marked green. We made sure to mark every side of the box so the mark is visible and it was easy to know what type of box it is regardless of how it was stacked. And what did we use? Bingo dabbers! You could use them to sort for each room if that is what you needed. Much better and cheaper than markers.  



This practice move is helpful but I would not suggest it as a preferred method. Moving an entire household three times in 7 months is not something I ever want to do again. Putting the building of a house in there is looking like crazy when it is in writing but this is going to happen and we are crazy enough to share it with all of you. Hope your comments can keep us inspired. :)