T-Minus 310 Days: Packing The Rooms

Several weeks ago I created a schedule for packing every room/location in the house. According to the schedule, if we packed one room/location per week (got it completely ready to load onto a moving truck) we would have just ten weeks to spare! That isn’t a lot of time.

I decided to get a jump start and do the easiest room in the house myself: the basement storage room. This storage room is filled with (mostly) my stuff. Everything is placed into neat uniformed boxes with labels, and all the boxes are in alphabetical order. I need a cable strap? Those are under “C”. Need a power cord? Those are under “P”.  

I thought this would be easy: I would just throw away stuff, put it in the yard sale, or sell it online. What I discovered is shelves hold a lot of stuff! By my second day, the room looked nothing like I thought it would. I thought it would be all empty and swept clean. There was just so much stuff in that room... I still am not done.

Another room in the basement was once the kid’s toy room. When the kids became older and stopped using it, I turned it into a man cave. That made my boys say “this would be a perfect room for playing video games” and they took it over. Then the room became the staging room for the Facebook Market Place sales: the room that we cleaned things up, took pictures, and stored until the item sold. My wife thought: let’s pack up that room. After 8 hours of dusting and cleaning and sorting, throwing away three garbage bags, and getting stuff ready to sell? The  isn’t “move out” ready yet, but it went from looking like a bomb went off in the room to something much nicer.

Packing a full house is a ton of work! I am not sure we can do one area every week!