I am finding the house clean out, which I have done quite a few times in my adult life (I tried to count how many times I have moved in my life and I just never get to the end for the final count it's been so often) extremely difficult, annoying and overwhelming this time around.
I hate thrift stores.....as an option. Seriously. I will be in a room, okay honestly my bedroom, where there are at least a thousand things to sort through and decide where they go.
At first I was going to just throw ninety per cent of it in garbage bags and get Shane, my junk guy, to take it to the dump. But as I am eliminating the tenth item of clothing with a price tag on it still (ashamed) I start thinking about stupid damned thrift stores. I hate them. We have been quite traumatically rejected by them both here and in Kamloops. Like what the eff do they want anyway? (SHOVEL LIST).
So out the name taggy stuff comes and I put them into a separate bag for....the freaking thrift store. We have found one that seems friendly. I heard that they take everything and 'she doesn't make you stand there whilst she sorts through your boxes'. Sounds good to me. Now there are thrift store bags sitting around waiting to be taken down to the thrift store instead of being thrown onto the back deck for Shane to deal with.
And what bugs me the most is that sorting just slows you down. Frankly if I went to visit my awesome grandchildren for a week and my house was pretty much empty except for the dire necessities when I got home, I would be one happy camper. But for me to do it...well it causes pause and thinking...which is time consuming, not to mention exhausting.
Plus now, this time around it's quite different. I am not in the kind of shape those annoying 70plus energized oldsters are. I have longevity as far as energy goes but my physical body can't do it. My back and hip hurt so bad within ten minutes of running around and bending over (the worst) that I seriously can't stand. The moment I sit its perfect. No pain. Within a few minutes I am good to go for another ten minutes. Do you know how freaking annoying that is? Makes me mad.
I am getting smarter about it though. I have a red cheapo office chair. I have started to put piles that need sorting on the floor in front of me and a garbage bag for donations on the left and a garbage garbage bag on the right and a box for the stuff I HAVE to keep to put away later within throwing distance. It has really helped doing that. I can scoot around too without having to get up. I don't have to stop! Once I get going I don't like stopping. And a bonus to that method is I don't fall or lose my balance nearly as often!
I now have the guest room five minutes away from bing totally ready for company. I have my bedroom eighty per cent done. Now all I have left is ...an overloaded hugely packed big laundry room, two sheds that are the size of small bedrooms and Tinny. Tinny is thirty foot by twelve foot tin building erected on cement flooring and all three of those are packed full. Waaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! Not to mention a packed dining room and back deck. Frankly it's overwhelming.
My main goal is to get all this cleared out, Ange situated in Chiliwack with her family and Monte living independently somewhere he can afford. Thats all. I can't die until all that is done. I don't want my kids to have to deal with any of that.
In the meantime the clean out continues. Tomorrow I am commandeering Mr. Man to help me with the deck. I can't be bending and carrying. So he can do that for me. I don't think it will take too long...hopefully! I think I am going to get him to go buy a few proper packing boxes from budget and I am going to fill them with the awkward hard stuff for the thrift store. I have a huge amount of kitchen pots, pans, muffin tins, pop over tins, etc etc etc. Also dishes and mugs and endless odds and ends. They all gotta go! Then I will be able to breathe.
Well thats it for today. If you got this far in this post my hat is off to you! I will tell y'all when it's all done and you can come visit me. I will be keeping enough dinnerware to make delicious food for you!!!
TFL&TTYL
