Well, this past week has been a tad manic. On Saturday evening I finished my last ever shift in work which was far more emotional that I had anticipated! I was greeted with flowers, a card & a mahoosive cookie and lots of hugs. I was fortunate to work with an amazing bunch of people and I will truly miss them.

 Firstly, Apologies for the radio silence between my first post and this one, TJ and I went on holiday the week after the last post and we've been super busy with work and the house since then. But I'm back! Today has been the first real motion towards prepping the house for the move and we're feeling pretty good about it so far. We started the morning off by going round the various rooms in the house and picking out items that we wouldn't need or want for the move to try and condense the volume of stuff for packing in the van.





TJ got out his fancy tape and placed a strip on the floor to map out what was going to the charity shop and what was heading to the dump. This made life so much easier as we could just plonk things on the floor and there was still a modicum of organisation.




This was the result of a brief skim through the kitchen cupboards. It's so difficult to make the judgement call on what can be tossed when you can't be 100% sure you won't need it again before you leave. We've tried to be as ruthless as possible even though it was only a small amount of things that we moved today.

So once the piles were sorted on the living room floor, we collected up the items headed for the dump and we went and disposed of them. After the dump we made our way to our local Tesco supermarket and pleaded with the very nice fruit & veg man* if we could take some boxes off his hands.


*Note: He himself was not actually made from fruit & veg (Just to clarify).



We were obviously in the right place at the right time because the nice man in Tesco's appeared with a big stack of boxes for us to take for free. This is definitely the thing to try if you need boxes. We see people in the likes of IKEA actually buying boxes for moving and they could save so much money!



The latter part of the day was spent packing up the charity shop items into the car then dropping them off and getting a celebratory cup of coffee. Last stop was to Home Bargains for home cleaning supplies. The house is a little run down but we're determined to leave it in the best possible condition and get most of our deposit back so we can put it towards our mortgage fund!