The One Where Phase 1 Ends
My Goal can be summed up quite simply - to empty our house and ensure that the few things we want and need are moved to our new home in Shanghai.
This task has been on-going now for the last three months. When I first started with this at the beginning of December 2004, like Chandler Bing making it up the aisle, I had to take it one step at a time - a drawer here, a cupboard there - if I had stopped to consider the amount of work I had to do as a whole, the enormity of it would have simply been beyond comprehension.
Since I started, thanks to the close proximity of the tip (only 5 minutes by car) and the willingness of the people at work to devour my "For Sale" lists (currently on list 15, sent to approximately 50 people), I reckon I must have removed the equivalent of around 700 bin bags of stuff. For what felt like an eternity, there seemed to be a kind of magic about it - like one of those dolly bottles that starts off full of milk, tip it up and it's empty, put it the right way up again and hey presto - full to the top again. In as little as two hours, I could fill 10 black bin bags with 'rubbish', pile it up in the hall, and take it to the tip. The house would look no different. I would pile up enormous amounts of stuff in the living room, fill my car with it, and deliver it to work. The house would look no different.
But I'm finally seeing an end to all this.
I have 11 black bin bags of clothes in one bedroom which I am delivering tomorrow (at 6am) to J's school (Bags2School - they pay 20p per kg apparently). I have 12 black bin bags of rubbish in the hall (created since 4pm last Sunday when the tip closed) ready to be dumped on Saturday. I have a car full of toys from B & D's bedroom to take to work tomorrow. Once these three collections are disposed of, I can safely say I have done enough clearing of the decks, and it's time to move onto Phase 2 - PACKING.
To herald the beginning of Phase 2, TNT efficiently delivered 30 tea chests this afternoon and put them in the shed. I also received a large, thick white A4 envelope containing two bundles of forms to fill in (one set for Air, one set for Sea) from the removal people.
I think I need to start thinking like Chandler again.
This task has been on-going now for the last three months. When I first started with this at the beginning of December 2004, like Chandler Bing making it up the aisle, I had to take it one step at a time - a drawer here, a cupboard there - if I had stopped to consider the amount of work I had to do as a whole, the enormity of it would have simply been beyond comprehension.
Since I started, thanks to the close proximity of the tip (only 5 minutes by car) and the willingness of the people at work to devour my "For Sale" lists (currently on list 15, sent to approximately 50 people), I reckon I must have removed the equivalent of around 700 bin bags of stuff. For what felt like an eternity, there seemed to be a kind of magic about it - like one of those dolly bottles that starts off full of milk, tip it up and it's empty, put it the right way up again and hey presto - full to the top again. In as little as two hours, I could fill 10 black bin bags with 'rubbish', pile it up in the hall, and take it to the tip. The house would look no different. I would pile up enormous amounts of stuff in the living room, fill my car with it, and deliver it to work. The house would look no different.
But I'm finally seeing an end to all this.
I have 11 black bin bags of clothes in one bedroom which I am delivering tomorrow (at 6am) to J's school (Bags2School - they pay 20p per kg apparently). I have 12 black bin bags of rubbish in the hall (created since 4pm last Sunday when the tip closed) ready to be dumped on Saturday. I have a car full of toys from B & D's bedroom to take to work tomorrow. Once these three collections are disposed of, I can safely say I have done enough clearing of the decks, and it's time to move onto Phase 2 - PACKING.
To herald the beginning of Phase 2, TNT efficiently delivered 30 tea chests this afternoon and put them in the shed. I also received a large, thick white A4 envelope containing two bundles of forms to fill in (one set for Air, one set for Sea) from the removal people.
I think I need to start thinking like Chandler again.
posted by Linda at 11:30 PM
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