It's Now or Never...

    Today we FINALLY got both cars in the garage! Of course we had to do it in 98 degree heat, but if we kept waiting for a cooler day it would most likely be October and by that time I would have hit my sanity limit!

    Turning the calendar back... on Move-in day, the movers were unloading boxes and putting them where they were to go. Some rooms were quickly filling up with boxes when we realized that there was no room to set up beds, desks, or furniture in general. SO I told them to just leave the boxes in the garage and we would bring them in and unpack them at our leisure. WRONG! It has been 37 days since we got here and we still have no idea where things are other that IN the garage. So today was the day!
     As would be the case, we brought more stuff from our 5 bedroom/2 story house in Virginia that we could possibly want , need or use for our one year stay in a 3 bedroom bungalow in Alabama. Even though we had a floor plan, and called ourselves “planning”, we still brought too much STUFF!

We were delighted to find that there is quite a bit of storage here (garage attic and a loft area in one of the bedrooms) but as you can imagine, they are already filled with boxes for the next move and boxes for all the electronics.
    So once we got started, we were hell bent on getting things in a designated place in the garage so we could put BOTH cars in TODAY! That was the plan. We unpacked and then repacked boxes that we did not need at this house. We packed SEVERAL boxes for a Garage Sale…or Goodwill. We organized and lined the garage with boxes that didn’t fit in the garage attic or were too heavy to lift and/or carry up the ladder. We found places for the items of furniture that we brought with us but just couldn’t find a place in the house for them to go. (We actually used a lot of furniture pieces in ways and /or rooms that we hadn’t planned). And of course, we had to find places for the things that generally go in a garage such as tools, ladders, yard tools, lawn furniture, hoses, sprinklers, garbage cans, etc.
     Then we carried all the other boxes into the house. They are staged in the dining room waiting for their assigned area in an assigned room. (Good Luck with that , Joan!) I even purchased bed lifters for the guest bed just for the purpose of  making it higher so we can put things under for extra storage.
     After about 2-3 hours we were able to move the cars in the garage. Yeah!

    Afterwards, I wrote a list called WHERE’S MY STUFF? just so I would know which room, which closet, under which bed things have been placed.

     Note: In case you are wondering... All craft supplies are in the house, present and accounted for!