T-Minus 150 Days: Inlaw Moving Planned

 With 150 days left before the big move, things are starting to feel real!

My parents live in an in-law apartment attached to the New York house. They are moving to a 55+ community at the end of February. I have the movers all scheduled and paid. I simply called uHaul and told them what I needed. UHaul is provide a 15 foot truck, two guys to load the truck at our house, and then two guys to meet us at the destination to unload it. The cost was $500.

We have a place in Florida reserved for our mid-February trip. That is exciting.

We are also planning out May and June. My youngest is graduating from high school at the end of June, so, we will have a graduation party. We are actually going to combine the graduation party with several other activities. It will also be my wife and my 30th wedding anniversary. And, we want to have a good bye party because it may be a very long time before we see our family and friends again. All three events will be part of one big party. Because of COVID, it will be a physical and zoom party.

We are planning a May and a June garage sale. May will be the first opportunity for a sale due to the New York weather.

In order to be in Florida by July 1, our move date would have to be Monday, June 28. We have tentatively set that date on our calendar. 

We have 150 days left to hit our Marketplace Move Budget goal. We haven't started selling any big stuff yet, so, I'm hoping the big stuff will close the gap. 

I write a lot about purging because purging has become a big part of our life consuming a lot of our spare time (what little spare time we have). I am busy digitizing papers, photos, and video tapes so we might not have to take them with us. My daughter is still going through the dozen of her totes in Tub City to decide what she wants to keep from her childhood and what she wants to get rid of. We have started cleaning out closets and draws in the main house. And in February we will be packing up the in-law apartment for their move. 

I am still doing the technical training in preparation for my Florida job. I had hoped to be 50% done with that by now, but am only 25% due to everything else going on. A recent promotion at work is taking away many cycles that would otherwise be spent on training.

That's the update for today - probably not much different than other recent updates. Rinse, wash, repeat. Eventually it'll either get done or we will run out of time.