Pre-Move

This is our living room. It's been more or less like this for the past two weeks and it's getting worse.  But thankfully there's a light at the end of the tunnel and everything is slowly coming together. I think the hardest part about moving is the balance between needing to live in your current place vs packing up your whole life. 

The first packing week was spent packing up the items we know we won't need to live: the record player, the LPS, decorative glassware, etc. We packed up all but two of our coffee mugs, same for wine glasses, drinking glasses, etc. And it took time to wrap everything individually in newspaper so I'm glad its all out of the way. There's a few more breakable items that still need to be packed but those can wait. 

We also went through all our stuff and put everything we wanted to either donate or sell in a HUGE pile. 

The second packing week has been spent properly labeling every box, boxing up items that we can do without for a week (baking supplies, clothes, extra towels, etc). 

And next week will be everything else. Thankfully everything else is just a few pots and pans, food, our bathroom items, and the rest of our clothes. That's easy. 

For the labels I wrote where each items was supposed to go, what was in each box, and if it was heavy or fragile. Hopefully this will help us on moving day.

There's a small corner with all of our "to donate" items. There's one box of stuff we'd like to sell. We'll be borrowing a car next week so hopefully we can get rid of this pile ASAP.

There's a small chance we might be getting the keys to the new place next Wednesday instead of next Friday which would be awesome. The only problem is that G has to work and I don't know how to drive here. But it'll still be nice to have the keys. I can move over a few items via bus and start setting us up.

With our last place we had a month to move, meaning we paid double rent for our old place and our current place. But it gave us the time to fix up the new place (it really needed it) and slowly move everything over. For next week's move we have like five days between when we can move to our new place and when the new tenant is moving into our old place. The move needs to be as organized as possible. So that means it's time to pack a few more boxes.