Moving!

There is nothing like that sold sticker on the sign that tells the world "I bought this place!!!"

The big day came and went! I write this as we sit in our new home of a week. We are sorting out the little kinks that always come with 'new' houses.

The water heater is a gravity fed, which means we have no shower pressure :( First world problem, I know!


I must admit, it has been quite stressful, getting everything done on time. At 4:45pm on the Monday, 10 days before the settlement date, we found out that probate hadn't gone through for the vendors, since it is a deceased estate. Basically, we were told the house couldn't be sold until it did. Needless to say there was no sleeping that night!! I spent the next day on the phone freaking out, since no one thought to tell us that we could possibly not have a home! Probate was granted exactly a week before settlement, which was a relief to us!


 To add insult to injury, my darling other half spent weeks refusing everybody's help to move, stating "we can do it on our own, we'll be fine"... Meanwhile in the background, I could have strangled him! After speaking to him rather un-calmly and giving him a tour of our real house, we accepted any and all offers to help.

Weeks out I started packing up boxes and going through our monumentous amount of stuff. It is amazing just how much we have collected in the three years we have lived together! As many moving tips suggest- packing is the perfect time to look at all of your possessions and decide whether or not to keep it.

I honestly think 21 big garbage bags worth of stuff left my house, to both the bin and the Vinnies (an Australian thrift shop).

This was the first of about 3 loads to the thrift shop. Lots more went into the bin over a few weeks. The lamp I got from an old boss over 3 years ago who was giving it away... It never even got a light bulb or plugged in!

The boxes also started piling up, lovingly nicknamed Mt. Boxmore. Which took up our guest bedroom. Oscar, the devilish little boy loved all the nooks and crannies that were created and even found a way to climb them!

While doing the dishes one night I heard a mewing coming from the room, and it sounded a bit suspicious. Upon investigation I found this...

Little Bugger is on the guest bed we had upturned to make room for Boxmore! This was about 2 weeks before the move, and MT Boxmore grew to about double this size!!

We had 13 people help us on moving day and a truck we hired. Boy am I glad himself listened to reason! The boxes were loaded in less than 20 minutes and a majority of the move took 5 hours!

We are still unpacking slowly- it is so hard to be motivated when there are still a million boxes to unpack after this one...

My fingers are itching to start renovating to help make this house feel like home!