Our moving helpers arrived at 8 am this morning just as we’d asked. We were just finishing breakfast so their timing really was perfect. Both of the guys are pretty big but one in particular is strong as an ox. Things that hubby and I struggled to pick up and move (which isn’t saying much since neither of us is hugely muscular but we like to think we’re relatively strong), this guy would pick up with no problem at all and try to pick up something else along with it. Completely crazy.
So hubby’s parents were on cleaning detail while they were here. Not only did they clean at the rental house but they cleaned at the farm as well. Since neither hubby nor I are really big on cleaning in general, this was a huge help for us since we won’t need to spend a day doing it right before moving out (since we already have plenty to take care of next weekend with needing to finish painting the basement and repairing the carpet as well as steam cleaning the carpets throughout the house). We were able to focus on trying to keep the moving process flowing smoothly and they went room to room to make sure the rooms were ready for us to move stuff into and clean once everything was out.
It essentially took us 3 trips to move all the big furniture. It truly was amazing how much stuff could be packed into the moving van (think European style, as in a full size Mercedes van but extra long – no big U-Hauls here since most people don’t have the correct driver’s license to use them) and these guys just didn’t quit, especially the Moroccan. Their packing style was a bit chaotic at times but nothing was severely damaged (a few dings and dents which almost always happen while moving) and they were more careful than our last movers which we paid more than 3x as much for. They also managed to get it done in about 10 hours versus the 24 which it took our movers last time…and we have even more junk this time around lol.
They called it quits after the second run. One of the guys wanted to spend time with his 3 month old daughter since this was his first official day off in months although the Moroccan would probably have worked long into the night and offered to help us again tomorrow. But we figure we can manage without him. But we are going to prolong the rental on the van for one more day because there is still quite a bit of smaller stuff there which we need to pack up and it will go a lot quicker with the van since we can pack so much in there. But hopefully after that run, everything will be moved over aside from a few computers and things which need to be moved more safely.
We are going to be very happy when this is all over. Things are just stacked everywhere and we’ve filled up our storage rooms to almost overflowing. It’s not a matter of not having space right now, it’s more that we just have so much stuff that we aren’t quite sure what to do with yet that we’re stashing stuff here and there just so it’s out of the way so we can bring in more things.
We are definitely going to be living in chaos for a while longer though. We haven’t ordered our countertop yet and it turns out that Macky put the connection for the dishwasher behind where we’ve installed the dishwasher and it actually sticks out so far that we have to move the entire counter out about 2 inches from the wall. This is just not going to do so we’ve got to have that moved in the coming week as well so we can finally get the counter ordered…which will hopefully arrive in 2 weeks although I’m thinking 3 is more realistic at this point. There are also still a few doors missing from our kitchen which means that one of my pantry compartments is unusable right now. The door pulls out with 4 drawers behind it, two of which will be mounted to the door, and none of the IKEA’s in our area currently have them. They also haven’t really been able to tell me when they might arrive so I’m a bit antsy to say the least. But I have been able to unpack a few boxes in there already and I’m starting to actually find things again which is very nice. Now we just have to figure out how we’re going to cook since we don’t have a counter to mount the stove into…interesting times indeed.
