We have now sorted 33% of our 270 totes! And 15% of our totes are now empty. 15% doesn't sound like much - but that is 41 empty totes!
We continue to watch YouTube videos as we purge. This weekend we binge watched Florida With Five, a family with five kids who moved to Florida one year ago. The area they live in sounded so familiar, so, we decided to figure out where their house was. I know, that seems super creepy. But we have lived in that area for 8 or 9 summers and know it really well. What got us interested was when they talked about the Sun Rail, a commuter train that goes to Orlando. In all the research I had done and all the time spent in the area, I had never heard of the Sun Rail before. How was that possible?
It took some work during lunch time, but, we narrowed it down to what street they lived on. I had drove by that area five years ago and was amazed at how developed it had become! I had never considered that area because when we drove through it, it was just fields and golf courses.
And that is where the creepy part ends. I found the street, but I probably couldn't find it again without a ton of work. I would never tell anyone or care to go there. I just wanted to better understand the SunRail and now I see how developed that area has become, which I didn't previously know.
The SunRail extension to the south completed in July 2018. You can now take the rail from Poinciana all the way into Orlando and beyond. I plan to learn more about this because it could be a way to beat the I4 traffic!
We watched many videos that showed how people packed a pod. From what we saw: people don't move to Florida with furniture! I don't know how anyone can afford to move to Florida and buy all new furniture - furniture is expensive! We decided we needed to take a trip to Florida to do a final search for houses, and during that trip, visit some of the furniture stores in the area to see what the trick is.
A few other things we noticed was the use of different sized boxes to maximize every inch of the pod. A final thing we noticed was how much packing material often gets used: they'll wrap something in a blanket, then wrap that in plastic. Then they'll line boards and cardboard around that. The trick, from what I learned, is to pack the POD in sections - building walls of belongings. After each section (or wall) you use rope to hold it in place. This continues, section by section and wall by wall until the entire POD is filled.
I also learned that a POD can hold 10,000 pounds, however, the pod itself is 2500 pounds, so, really it only holds 7500 pounds (the same as a 22 foot moving truck). That may actually be a problem because I have a home gym filled with weight machines, dumbbells, and free wights.... how the heck am I going to move all of that? Perhaps I'll just sell everything and use a health club membership in Florida.
The weekend ended with three days of purging. We filled eight garbage bags with trash, and two garbage bags for the yard sale/donation. It was a lot of work and we are exhausted!
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