408 boxes of stuff. Just stuff. All kinds of stuff. Good stuff, dumb stuff, old stuff, new stuff, stuff we've never seen. Just stuff. 408 of 'em. That's how many boxes Servepro brought back to our house when we were ready to move back in. Everything was looking so good and then they brought in all the boxes. Every room was full ceiling to floor and wall to wall. I've never seen so many boxes crammed in a house. I didn't know we had so much stuff. However, the boxes were not full - not even close to being full. Most boxes only had a few small items in them. I could have crammed all the stuff in a fraction of the boxes. But then, Servepro wouldn't have made as much money, now, would they? Yeah...they charged $3.50 per box, plus charged so much per square foot for storing them for 5 months, then charged to deliver them back to our house. Uh huh...somebody made a bunch of money off of us.
But as somebody told me, it's been kinda like Christmas. We're opening all these boxes, not knowing what's in any of them and finding all kinds of surprises. ALL KINDS OF SURPRISES!!! We found Mayfield Dairy Employee shirts. None of us has ever worked at Mayfield Dairy. We found teeny, tiny little baby dresses. No babies in our house in about 26 years. How about the size 42 black sheer, lacy negligee??? You read right...size 42! It would have fit Tim!!! LOL And how about the H-U-G-E black lace thong that probably went with the size 42 negligee? Not stretched out, it was 18" wide. Let me just say...Ewwwwwww. In spite of all the time-consuming weariness of unpacking all the boxes, we've had quite a few laughs from it. We're just tired of it now. We took 300+ hanging items to Goodwill (clothes, bedspreads, curtains, etc etc - each item hung separately on individual hangers). We've got about 50 boxes so far to go to the church's thrift store, quite a bit of odds and ends furniture to go there, and we've had mountains of trash. If our trashman got paid on commission, he would love us this week!
But we're almost there. Almost done! Furniture is being delivered this week and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. And I can see carpet where boxes used to be!! Fewer than 100 boxes to go, then we can furnish and decorate. Oh the joy! When we get everything in place, I'll give a big ole "Yall come now, ya hear!" shout out to everybody in town!
Until then, time's a-wastin'...I've got more boxes to unpack. Talk to you later!
But as somebody told me, it's been kinda like Christmas. We're opening all these boxes, not knowing what's in any of them and finding all kinds of surprises. ALL KINDS OF SURPRISES!!! We found Mayfield Dairy Employee shirts. None of us has ever worked at Mayfield Dairy. We found teeny, tiny little baby dresses. No babies in our house in about 26 years. How about the size 42 black sheer, lacy negligee??? You read right...size 42! It would have fit Tim!!! LOL And how about the H-U-G-E black lace thong that probably went with the size 42 negligee? Not stretched out, it was 18" wide. Let me just say...Ewwwwwww. In spite of all the time-consuming weariness of unpacking all the boxes, we've had quite a few laughs from it. We're just tired of it now. We took 300+ hanging items to Goodwill (clothes, bedspreads, curtains, etc etc - each item hung separately on individual hangers). We've got about 50 boxes so far to go to the church's thrift store, quite a bit of odds and ends furniture to go there, and we've had mountains of trash. If our trashman got paid on commission, he would love us this week!
But we're almost there. Almost done! Furniture is being delivered this week and I can actually see the light at the end of the tunnel. And I can see carpet where boxes used to be!! Fewer than 100 boxes to go, then we can furnish and decorate. Oh the joy! When we get everything in place, I'll give a big ole "Yall come now, ya hear!" shout out to everybody in town!
Until then, time's a-wastin'...I've got more boxes to unpack. Talk to you later!
