Well, after a brief hiatus, it’s official: we have moved in. Last weekend, joined by as many family and friends as we could convince to help us, Steve & I gathered substantially all of our belongings from our respective parents’ houses and the teeny-tiny apartment we’ve been living in since we got married in January and deposited them in our new digs. Here’s how it went:
A week or two before the big move, we each started packing up things we wouldn’t need. Steve, being a CPA, suddenly found himself with very little to do at work after April 15, and so took Thursday and Friday off to pack up. Here’s Steve in the living room during the process:
Hmmm, looks like he’s watching the hockey game and messing around on his laptop. If he’s packing too, that’s some serious multi-tasking! Needless to say, when Saturday rolled around and we picked up the truck we rented, there was still a fair amount of packing to do. Fortunately, we did have a number of friends helping us out.
Even so, we still didn’t finish packing the truck, which we picked up around 10am, until 3:30 in the afternoon! I can’t imagine how long it would have taken if we had been on our own. The only downside is things really just got thrown into boxes just to get it done, so there is not a whole lot of organization to the way things are packed and it’s making unpacking a bit of a challenge.
Next time we move, which will hopefully not be for a long, long time, I’m going to suggest hiring movers. At a minimum, labeling the moving boxes is going to be mandatory!
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