May 22, 2013

After waking up panicked, I'm beginning to feel a little better. Three movers scheduled for next week and one estate sale planner. A second will call Tuesday to set up a time. Got through most of my office, separating out what I'll need immediately in VT. Still more pictures -- yowza. I'm not sure everything will get sorted before we leave. It would be really nice to have that done and off to be digitized so that they didn't have to travel in the car. Likewise, many notes and letters from my parents and grandfather -- won't have time to go through those. Maybe in front of the fire one cold Vermont night. :-) Committed to selling all the depression glass and to keeping the bare minimum of wedding presents. (How did we end up with five clear crystal bowls and four decanters??) Also jettisoned all but one of the pottery bowls. Feels good, feels very, very good. Off in the morning to VT for a little time off from the Georgia heat and from the craziness of the move-tossed house. Oh no, it looks like it's going to rain the entire weekend. :-(

May 20, 2013

Not as much progress today, it being a work day. Did manage to call two estate sale people and talk to one. Apparently, the things that sell are actual antiques, costume jewelry, nice clothes and shoes, quality furniture, kitsch, and the like. Hope we have enough good versus crap stuff.... At home, decided we were keeping the bird houses. Also, Alan went through his clothing and selected stuff to sell. Progress. :-) No boxes packed today, though. :-(

May 19, 2013

Argh, my back is killing me. I've been working more or less nonstop since 10am this morning. Cynthia stopped by then and helped me get organized. We started the inventory -- there are three categories -- deep storage (green), temporary storage (pink), and for the house (purple). I'm grouping the boxes by category for easy load onto the truck. So far, I'm up to 22 boxes, containing (from yesterday) camping gear, Christmas decorations, linens, and (from today) books, knick-knacks, more linen, kitchen pots, and the Kentucky Derby glasses. Watched The Contender (Love Joan Allen!) and the Bruins-Rangers game. Not a good one for the 'Gers. Also boxed up most of the framed photos. Took out three bags of trash. Now, just ordered some Greek delivery (gonna miss delivery!) and sitting back with 60 minutes. Looking around, it's hard to see the progress, although I know that progress is being made. :-(

May 18, 2013

So, I decided to set up this blog to document our efforts to leave Atlanta, our home of 24 years, for the wilds of New Hampshire. As you might imagine, in that timespan we have accumulated many, many things and despite my periodic attempts to purge, there is a LOT of crap in this house. Not to mention the storage locker filled with things from my parents' house that I haven't looked at in the 15 years they have been housed there. Or the storage locker Alan rented down the road to deal with the house being too full. Luckily, we are both determined to reduce, reduce, reduce. We're going to rent for a year, so we will get rid of alot of our furniture -- all the grad school stuff and anything with wear and tear. No point in paying to move bookshelves either. What is this blog supposed to accomplish? Mainly it's for me, to let me feel like I am actually accomplishing something even though it's hard to see the difference. We've basically been on this journey for a little less than two weeks and in that time, I have gone through my books and thoroughly purged them -- very little of grad school left. I've also gone through my clothes and selected those for good will or resale. If I haven't worn it in a year or it doesn't fit, out it goes. Today, I got the camping materials out of the attic, sorted through them, and got them boxed up. Then I filled up three suitcases with warm clothing; we can check those bags when we head up to Quimby's later this week. And I filled up three boxes of quilts and blankets. More to go but it's a start.