Boxes

Welcome to our remodel Blog. I've never blogged before, so this is going to be a learning experience for me. Also, I don't anticipate having oodles of time to spend posting, so I'm going to try and keep it simple. Most of the photos here will be coming from my phone; it's just easier that way. So if you click on a photo to enlarge it and it looks grainy, you're going to have to live with it :) We thought this would be a fun, fairly easy way to keep everybody up to date on the progress of the house

Now, on with the meat of it all. This is not very sexy for a first post, but we have to begin somewhere. Friends & family, behold $300 worth of boxes & packing materials. What a great way to spend all our Christmas money! We priced boxes locally, and it was actually a bit cheaper (and much easier) to order them from MoveOut.com. They shipped for free, and since they are coming from Fresno, we ordered them one morning, and they were on the doorstep - neatly packaged, I might add - waiting for us the next day. In addition to this shipment, we have a bunch of moving pads - of equal value, incidentally - arriving today. Since everything is going into a Pod for three to four months, we had to buy moving blankets instead of using them from the moving company. We figured it was cheaper to buy the blankets than damage pieces of furniture.

I have the next four days off, so the packing commences tonight. The idea is to have everything boxed up & ready to go by noon on Monday. That's when the moving labor is showing up. We've got them for 3+ hours and they will be doing the heavy lifting & loading the pod. Anything that doesn't fit, well, it's either going to go to the rental house, or find another home.

More to come...

David