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So we're now 11 months out from our move to Hawaii.
At the start of the year, Kimberly and I decided that we were going to do our best to do one major thing every month, to move us toward moving, and also do some continuous work to reduce the clutter in the house.
Our major work in January was to get in contact with a gardener and a handyman. These folks are both going to help us by making the house more presentable and thus salable. They were both out last Friday.
The gardener stared actual work today, and cleared the front yard of weeds and covered it over with black plastic (and also hauled some old rotting wood away). Next up will be some mulch and then ... we start planting I guess.
I prepared a TODO list for the handyman, and he was supposed to give us a quote by today, but haven't. Well, we've got the process started anyway, and I'll bug him tomorrow.
Meanwhile, we've been quite successful this month getting rid of clutter. Kimberly said multiple bags of clothes to Goodwill and gave away a variety of unused kitchen stuff on Freecycle. I cleaned up my cache of American games that we used to play on RPG days, but haven't in over a decade (The Challenge, Riddle of the Ring, Source of the Nile, etc) and got rid of my last CCG, Mythos, or at least it's ready to go when someone picks it up in a week and a half. I've also been cleaning drawer clutter here and there. And I was happy to give Eric L. some of my old trade paperbacks that I'd flagged to get rid of.
For next month, Kimberly and I have both taken filing as our major task. She's got her office files. I have much less in the way of office filing (because I mostly give it to her), but I'll clean up the Skotos filing, because that certainly needs to be done too. And I will cut my personal files down to the bare minimum (which should be pretty bare).
So, one month gone, and we did a good job of preparing for the move so it doesn't all hit next fall.
At the start of the year, Kimberly and I decided that we were going to do our best to do one major thing every month, to move us toward moving, and also do some continuous work to reduce the clutter in the house.
Our major work in January was to get in contact with a gardener and a handyman. These folks are both going to help us by making the house more presentable and thus salable. They were both out last Friday.
The gardener stared actual work today, and cleared the front yard of weeds and covered it over with black plastic (and also hauled some old rotting wood away). Next up will be some mulch and then ... we start planting I guess.
I prepared a TODO list for the handyman, and he was supposed to give us a quote by today, but haven't. Well, we've got the process started anyway, and I'll bug him tomorrow.
Meanwhile, we've been quite successful this month getting rid of clutter. Kimberly said multiple bags of clothes to Goodwill and gave away a variety of unused kitchen stuff on Freecycle. I cleaned up my cache of American games that we used to play on RPG days, but haven't in over a decade (The Challenge, Riddle of the Ring, Source of the Nile, etc) and got rid of my last CCG, Mythos, or at least it's ready to go when someone picks it up in a week and a half. I've also been cleaning drawer clutter here and there. And I was happy to give Eric L. some of my old trade paperbacks that I'd flagged to get rid of.
For next month, Kimberly and I have both taken filing as our major task. She's got her office files. I have much less in the way of office filing (because I mostly give it to her), but I'll clean up the Skotos filing, because that certainly needs to be done too. And I will cut my personal files down to the bare minimum (which should be pretty bare).
So, one month gone, and we did a good job of preparing for the move so it doesn't all hit next fall.