Saturday, April 07, 2007

The move-out date is near!

The end is near.. the end of how long we can stay in the scraper. Construction has started in the vacant lot next door, and we'll have to move out of the scraper on May 20th when the house will be demolished. But where will we move to? Our current plans are to move back to the house, into the two untouched bedrooms. Our house is likely to be under construction until June or July, but I don't want to move twice, and I don't want to pay any more money for rent! Most importantly, I don't want to have to move the furniture twice.

So... I've concocted an elaborate plan which will will have to carry out over the next month:

  1. Move all the boxes in our garage and the upstairs guest bedroom elsewhere (to someone's garage or to a storage box outside)
  2. Pack up everything that's in the cabinetry in the garage
  3. Remove the garage cabinets
  4. Install the old kitchen cabinets in the garage (thus clearing out more space in the garage
  5. Move the furniture from the scraper to the garage, and cover it well
  6. Sell the office furniture (currently in the scraper) since it won't fit well in the new office
  7. Sell the Clavinova so we don't have to move it
  8. Bring the TV to Kurt's folks so we don't have to move it back to the house and then move it out again once we get a new one (it's heavy, and moving it down a staircase is a real effort)
Given that I'm going to be away for a week on a business trip in a week, we won't be able to start on this plan until the end of April, which will give us three weeks. No pressure!

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