Moving

Moving Update: Aren’t we done YET? We’re down to the real annoying stuff now, that last 10% that’s hiding in the back corners of drawers and cupboards. Why do we have so much crap? At one point today I found myself carrying a fondue set, a popcorn popper, a jaffle maker, and a stick blender, and I thought to myself: “I’m going to be ashamed to read Unclutterer after this.” Not that we aren’t throwing things out. Ooooh no. We’re getting rid of heaps of stuff. I took three suitcases full of books, videotapes, clothes, toys, and boardgames over to our local Red Cross Op Shop. I’ve carried half a dozen big garbage bags of rubbish out to the trash room. And it’s still not empty! But it will be, hopefully by tomorrow afternoon. Then that gives us a few days to tidy up before the real cleaners come on Thursday to hopefully try to reclaim as much of our security deposit as possible. That also happens to be the DAY OF SETTLEMENT, which I’m a little disappointed to learn we aren’t expected to be at. I was envisioning some sort of very solemn ceremony, where we’d sign something, and they’d sign something, and we’d hand over an oversized cheque, and then there’d be the Ritual Handing Over of Keys. Except we’ve already got all the keys and the lawyer is authorised to dole out the cash, so my dreams of the Great Ritual of Settling on the House will go unfulfilled. Too bad.