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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Gracious sakes alive. All this, before lunch!! (but the chocolate lunch sounds deliciously 'healthy'! I'm with you there.)
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Except for the fire and flood, it was a pretty normal morning.
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Originally Posted by Verencat
Right now sitting on the floor of my new apartment with laptop on my knees, facing the wall to avoid looking at the sea of bags and boxes piled up behind me, really wanting to brush my teeth, but in no way able to even get up to start looking for the "bathroom" boxes (2 boxes and one garbage bag because I ran out of boxes). In desperate need of the most well deserved shower ever, but wont have a shower nor a bath for two days because landlord has put off fixing the ceramic just a tiny winy bit too long. And lord knows I'm sticky and smelly right now (moving to a third floor on a sunny 30C day makes that to you).
Now also fridge less, my dad and my brother barely managed to get the oven in here, so there was no way the big old fridge from the 80ies could be taken up.
Discovered yesterday that dependence on MR leaves me, when I'm computer less, in a tragic state of despair. There is two entire pages of threads I need to catch up to, and really really wanna read, and I left MR for 30 hours tops.
So right now, I'm looking back on these last couple of days and I'm realizing things: I've got two extremely great friends (they've met today, and they answer me with exactly the same words when I start to panic - they sounded like a gospel choir, it was beautiful to watch), my brother, despite being an insolent wise-ass (like me  ), is incredibly generous and caring, and my dad is simply the best man ever (he moved both my brother and I today  ). And... I'm really attached to you, MRers! 
So yeah, I'm happy in the end! |
Wish I could be there to help you unpack and organize. I have discovered three of the best organizing tools ever ....
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Space Bag Jumbo Cubes; (best price seems to be at this site);
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Ziploc totes; (special offer going on right now at the company site, much better than any price I've seen in the stores); and
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Toodledo .... which is a great organizing utility (I have the "pro" subscription), and syncs with most of the smart phones.
When faced with a big task, it always helps to have the right tools. I love the Spacebag totes because they compress way down, but you can still see what's in them.
The Ziploc totes are great for clothing that just wont fit in your drawers (such as all of my jeans), but that you don't want to compress and store away (such as all of my fat and skinny jeans).
Toodledo is great because you can break down each mountain into molehills and then smaller molehills and plan out exactly when you are going to tackle each one. It's much easier to get up and do something when you can see that it's a small 15 minute molehill than when you feel like you HAVE to do it ALL right now (and know that you can't).
Hang in there!!