{"id":1055,"date":"2008-07-22T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.forgetful.ca\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2008-07-22T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2008-07-22T14:17:09","slug":"unorganized-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/?p=1055","title":{"rendered":"Unorganized chaos."},"content":{"rendered":"

So.\u00a0 We’re moved in.\u00a0 All of our stuff has been moved from\u00a0one\u00a0house and stuffed into the other.\u00a0 And until my parents arrived on Saturday night, I would have been hard-pressed to say that anything was organized at all.\u00a0 But we’re getting there – slowly but surely.\u00a0 The kitchen is completely unpacked and looks fabulous (thanks, Mom) and we can actually see the floor in most rooms by now.<\/p>\n

We realized a few things during this move – the major one being how much I detest moving.\u00a0 I know it’s been said before, by me many, many times, but we plan to dig our heels in and stay here for awhile.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0This house suits us.\u00a0 And we like living in\u00a0the\u00a0east end\u00a0so far.<\/p>\n

Our house, it turns out needs a bit more work than we originally thought.\u00a0 Thankfully, we are ok with that, as it was part of the reason we went with an older home rather than brand new.\u00a0 Our first project will be a bathroom remodel.\u00a0 The inspector told us we’d need to re-grout.\u00a0 Why not re-tile if you have re-grout?\u00a0 And why not re-model if you have to re-tile?\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 We have big plans and are excited to start.\u00a0 We need to get some inspiration photos, but think ‘spa’ and that’s the feel we’re going for.\u00a0 Very excited.<\/p>\n

And now, after my umpteenth move, a list of moving dos and don’ts – for those of you thinking of taking the plunge:<\/p>\n

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  1. Hire movers.\u00a0 It might seem expensive, but trying to round up enough friends with pick-up trucks and big muscles gets old – especially when they’ve helped you move 300 times already.\u00a0 Movers do all the hard work.\u00a0 You get to stand there and direct traffic and point to where the fridge goes rather than try to jam it through the front door when it’s obvious too big to fit.\u00a0 Let someone else worry about that part.<\/li>\n
  2. Take your friends up on offers to babysit (kids or dogs).\u00a0 As much as you think you won’t have to, trying to get organized AND entertain an 18-month old at the same time isn’t easy.\u00a0 And the dog will hate being locked in the backyard while strangers roam about the house.\u00a0 There will be barking.\u00a0 And whining.<\/li>\n
  3. Bridge finance, if you can.\u00a0 We took possession on Friday and had to be out on the following Thursday.\u00a0 That gave us plenty of time to get organized and we never once felt really rushed.<\/li>\n
  4. Plan to move on the day of or the day before garbage day.\u00a0 It wasn’t factored into\u00a0our original plans, but that’s how it turned out and it worked out fabulously.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  5. Try to avoid the last minute, throw-it-in-a-box-with-other-crap-type packing without proper labelling.\u00a0 We tend to do that with the stuff we leave out the longest (a.k.a. the most important stuff – telephones, pens, remotes, toiletries) and then when we get to the new house, we wrack our brains to remember where it ended up.\u00a0 Detailed labelling pays off in spades in the first few days.\u00a0 You won’t regret it.<\/li>\n
  6. Try to unpack one room at a time.\u00a0 Go in there, get it all done and move on.\u00a0 You’ll feel a greater sense of accomplishment having a few completely finished rooms rather than a little bit done in each one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00a0The end (of the unpacking) is in sight for us now.\u00a0 I’m thrilled to see our new home finally taking shape.\u00a0 Our focus will soon change from buying, selling, worrying about selling, panicking about not selling fast enough, actually selling, packing, moving, unpacking to…life.\u00a0 Just plain old life, where you don’t think twice about where you live, you just live.\u00a0 I can’t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    So.\u00a0 We’re moved in.\u00a0 All of our stuff has been moved from\u00a0one\u00a0house and stuffed into the other.\u00a0 And until my parents arrived on Saturday night, I would have been hard-pressed to say that anything was organized at all.\u00a0 But we’re getting there – slowly but surely.\u00a0 The kitchen is completely unpacked and looks fabulous (thanks, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[5,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forgetful.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}