Unpacking and moving

Wow, what fun it is to unpack 21 boxes of stuff, and try to put it all back where it came from.

Yeah, right.

By end of day yesterday, most of the boxes were emptied and their contents moved to their old/new homes. We've loaded the glass-front cabinets with pretty wine glasses. You can almost see them in pix 1. I'll attempt a better pix today, after the painters leave.

Pix 2 = wine glass cabinet. We lost 3" width, and ?? height. So not all the glasses can go back where they came from. Wine glasses, yes. Water glasses, OJ glasses, etc. - no.

Pix 3 = The hutch is all back to where it was before we emptied it to make room for our everyday pans, dishes, etc. I can't recall who had that tip, but it was a really good one.

We are finding things that we just don't want to keep anymore. Luckily my friend (Donna) is having a garage sale this month, and is willing to take it off our hands. This works out for us - we get rid of it, without throwing it away. Donna makes a bit of cash, hopefully enough to pay for her trouble. And what she doesn't sell, SHE gets to throw away. Win-Win.

Pix 3 = dining room and pix 4 = living room. It's been cleaned up a lot since then. Bob has broken down most of the empty boxes - the misc. ones that we accumulated from wine purchases, Amazon, etc. - and they are on the curb for the re-cycle pickup. We still have quite a few of the boxes we bought. I hate to throw them away. Maybe the garage sale????

Anyway, yesterday was a very long & painful day (as in aching muscles - ALL OF THEM). Bob helped by schlepping boxes, and putting things on the top shelves. He also re-did the spacing on various shelves multiple times. It was hard to judge the spacing until I started putting things away. He was helpful, kind and patient throughout. What a sweetie!

We are going to order some extra shelves for what I call 'deep storage'. Things that I seldom use, but would be nice to have in the kitchen instead of the basement. Although, considering where the shelves will be, perhaps I should call it 'high storage'. :-)