Aches and Pain in the Ass

Spent much of yesterday cleaning out/organizing the garage.

Not that we can keep any stuff in it, just to get it ready to act as a staging area.

We've decided to put stuff into four piles: to store, to move with us to Surfside, to sell (there's a neighborhood yard sale every Labor Day, but we've decided to donate the stuff instead... there's not much cash value we're going to get out of the items [we tend to price to move... get the damn thing over before lunch], and a great tax benefit if we donate), and to shitcan.

At least with the garage, it's working out to my master plan: the piles for donation and dumping are much larger than the move and store piles (though I am beginning to cringe at the size of the move pile... ewww).

I've checked with the City... there's household hazardous waste dumping every month... of course, the next date won't be until after we "move"... so I'm going to need to find a place to store it for a week. Joy.

Today, we work on another room: yet to be decided... we'll figure that one out over breakfast. I'm thinking kitchen/living room, or our bedroom. I definitely want to get the shed emptied temporarily and moved off into the corner of the back yard.

We're going to call the donation place and get our first batch of donations picked up / or find out where to drop off... we need to do that quickly, as we're losing room in the garage.

Over the course of the week, I want to dismantle at least one large piece of furniture per night.
... and I'd like to move the pieces into the garage as we go. (thus the need to open up space quickly).

There's still "technically" two weeks before we have to be out of the house... we can move into the other place next Sunday, but we'll be out of town for the wedding of a former student of mine next weekend.

So, here's what I'd like to do:

• this week: get the temporary dumpster for the stuff we're shitcanning
• this week: get the first of the donation batches out of the property
• this week: get much of the hard stuff (deconstruction and packing) out of the way
• next Mon/Tues/Wed (July 2/3/4): move smaller stuff into Surfside
• next Thurs/Fri (July 5/6): get the pod delivered and move stuff into that
• the weekend of July 7: move us into Surfside and have the pod people pick up the storage pod

(oh, yeah... and work every day during this as well...)

Then demo can begin in July 9... that is, of course, if we can get all the building permit stuff taken care of by then (should really make a list of all that needs to be done there)...