Organised Chaos!

I have no idea why I decided to vacuum before the removal men came. Complete waste of time!

I thought I had a good system. Green stickers for rental. Red stickers for storage. All cupboards & shelves marked with stickers. Boxes we packed labelled with R or S + room / contents. Similar things grouped together for easy packing. Some boxes taken to the "new" house. Plants & some garden furniture to go there too. Stuff for charity or Freegle gone. Rubbish gone. A plan of position of furniture for rental.

A lot of time & effort planning, sorting & packing.

Removal men very hardworking - a very physically demanding job. Quite stressful too. 9.30 - 2.30 constant work.

Once they started it was utterly exhausting. 2 men packing for a day - lots of queries. Me up & down stairs constantly. Because there were 2, I was on the go all day. At the end the house was literally stuffed with boxes. Movement was limited. 

When I came to cook supper I discovered that they had emptied my kitchen cupboards of everything apart from a drawer of cutlery, a shelf of crockery & a cupboard of cereals. Even my bread bin had gone! No sharp knives, cooking utensils, trays or oven gloves. No food, other than what was in the fridge freezer. I thought that the rental stuff would wait till the day of the actual move so I could use it in the 2 intervening days (3 suppers, lunches & breakfasts). 

When I went to bed I realised that my bedroom curtains had gone. Fortunately I have an eye mask.

Today was moving stuff to storage - A hugely time consuming process. Big yellow is extremely well organised & the 3 men I spoke to were really helpful & lovely with it. But lots of information to go through & paperwork, even though I had done a lot in advance online. Then the keypad code didn't work so a lot of hanging around again. But everything went into the unit. It was very tight though. No chance of being able to get at anything now although technically I do have access. Given how tightly the removers must have packed it I do wonder what state things will come out again. I didn't see it go into the lorry or going into the store. I don't know how protected things like leather settees are protected. The facility is amazing - a little village of different sized storage units with streets!

Now peace reigns. I am about to tidy up & vacuum all the dust up so that I feel tidy & organised. Nothing is happening tomorrow. I just have to go to the rental to let BT in.

Thursday is actually moving to the rental. 

I will be so glad when this is over.