Progress?

I truly don't know whether I'm making progress on this house or not--or even whether I'm making progress with ANYTHING in my new life.

I think I'm just shuffling stuff around!  Today, I've just started pitching stuff in the trash. 

 

I'm not giving up...not yet!

Box-hab

Have you ever seen the Internet-famous cat, Maru?  He is fascinated with boxes!  Go to YouTube (Maru on YouTube) and watch him indulge in his passion.

Maru would be extremely happy in this house!  Boxes everywhere!  I'm trying to whittle down the piles, but it's going slowly. 

 

This was the long weekend's work--12 boxes emptied.  I know it doesn't sound like much, but that's 12 less boxes than I had on Friday!  And everything emptied from the boxes has a permanent home--although I may have to do a little rearranging to suit myself later.

 

I also put up shelves in one of the bedrooms for teddy bears and paperback books.  I have moved vinyl records, thrown away magazines, put books on shelves, put away paper, and thrown away what seems like tons of junk.  I finally just moved the city trash bin right outside the door and started tossing stuff.  Just a personal note--use those "just for looks" candles!  If you save them, they will end up melted together in a box and be totally worthless. 

 

 

See that empty space there?  Got rid of three boxes that had made themselves at home here! 

 

I vow to put up the kitchen spices, get rid of five more boxes in the den, and build the teddy bear shelves this week!  Check in and hold me to my promise!

The Great Move of 2012--95% complete!

The Great Move of 2012 is now 95% complete!  The pictures below are of the aftermath (and, yes, that is an Easter bunny still out on the shelf.  Why do you ask?):

Kitchen:  one box down already!

Junk on the kitchen table

The study/studio--when it's done it will be my jewelry studio

The gameroom (admittedly a lot of this is items that mom had dragged out before she died)

Living room/library

Den

Living room/library from the other direction

Teddy bear room

Guest bedroom

The first two boxes empty!!! Only one million more to go...

In progress

The Great Move of 2012 is now in progress!  So excited!

Where are we going?

The Great Move of 2012--continued

Sorry for the not-so-great photos, but, as you can see, I'm in the middle of packing. Well, I'm more or less supervising the packing. I can't do as much as I used to!



Just one of the many piles of boxes

Another bunch o'boxes

My teddy bear collection--bagged, if not tagged. 

Those poor men have been working on my studio for three hours now.  I'm sure they'll never want to see another bead ever!

The movers come next week.  I'm both excited and sad.  Somehow, as long as all this stuff was over here, I could sort of pretend that somehow everything was going to go back to "normal" at some point.  Now, with all my things boxed up, it all seems so real.  I've shed more than a few tears all over again. 

I absolutely DREAD having to unpack all of this.  Do they have a service for that?  

Update on "The Great Move of 2012"

So excited to report that I have packers coming on Sunday (the only day they could come), and movers coming next Saturday!  I will finally be able to get everything I want out of my house and into mom's.  The items I don't want from both houses will be consolidated at my house so that I can have an estate sale.   

After the estate sale, I can get the house ready to put on the market.  I am praying that by the end of the year, everything will be complete. 

I'll post some pictures of the process when it begins this weekend!  In the meantime, I'll leave you with this:

This was the last thing I had to move--my office, two years ago!  That wasn't fun either!