Saturday, July 26, 2008

A Get Your Hands Dirty Day

Before:

After:

That big
box is the last load from our movers. They FedEx-ed it to us. 415 lbs (including our TV, a small recliner, a drill press, and DeWalt compound miter saw, several other various items, and a couple big boxes full of things). I am still unclear why they thought it was OK to leave that stuff behind.





Needless to say, I will not be doing a lot of lifting today. My back and shoulders are so sore!! I carried to the basement all our camping gear, a pair of skis, the compound miter saw, a table saw (hiding behind the box on the top picture), two boxes of small tools, a carpet, and 3 folding tables. I made Peter carry down the drill press, it was too heavy! I also found 4 huge bags of soda cans~ in CT you have to pay a "recycling deposit" with every can you buy. If you bring the cans back and put them in a recycling machine (one at a time, it takes forever) you get the money back. Otherwise we would recycle them with the rest of our stuff and not accumulate bags of them~ 6 lamps that I threw away, a pile of boxes I folded down, dead crickets and old spider webs, my bundt pan, Lincoln logs and Mr Potato Head accessories, and TONS of other things. I also tore down the entertainment center. I have to find out how to do large item pickup, right now I have a HUGE pile covered in a tarp at the top of my driveway.

10 comments:

  1. wow! That looks amazing. You did all that in one day?? When they do stuff like that on TV it takes days. I bet you feel so relieved.

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  2. Good job. I REALLy need to clean out my garage. It is more than just a few months of crap. Maybe you should come do it for me?

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  3. You are seriously amazing. I can't believe you carried all those tools to the basement. Those are heavy and bulky tools! The garage looks fantastic. I am SO impressed. I was proud of myself for clearing off my window sill. Haha! It's not quite the same ballpark is it?

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  4. that is an incredible feat! doesn't it feel so good to have it completed though? the work is hard, but when it is done i always think, i should have done that sooner, it looks so nice.

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  5. Hi Charlotte! I can't believe how big your kids are getting. I wish we were closer so we could get to know your little ones. Remember that time Tyler and Kirsty played so well together at Grandma's? It would be so good to see you guys. It's been too long!

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  6. Wow you did alot. It took me two weeks to clean out Grandma's garage. The movers can be so dumb. They wraped each of the sliver ware in paper. We have about fifty bags full of paper when we were done. Good job

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  7. Do you know how much I love before and after pictures? I might have to look at them again and again...I am impressed with all the hard work...wanna come do our basement?

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  8. just reading the blog makes me feel like I have acomplished enough to need a nap. I can't imagine actually doing the stuff

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  9. That looks great, but I got to admit, cleaning grandma's stuff looked like it would be harder (imagine 80 years of CRAP building up without anyone to throw it away)

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  10. i dont blame you for picking up heavy stuff and then a sore back wow could you come clean are garage

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