"Bin Day"

Still no photographs, but there is a good reason for that today as you will see as you read on.

 

Today was Bin Day.  After debating the cost of getting a Pod (very expensive and damaging to yard or driveway) to move things into during our up coming construction, moving the bins ourselves in our own car, or having someone else do it for us, D hired a man with a truck to move our packed and (mostly) labeled bins to a lock up facility.  All those bins as well as some other things that we needed our of the way are now safe and secure at a storage place.  What a relief! 

 

After all that, our basement is much neater, but still not pretty enough to photograph.  However, we have the relief of  knowing that the furnace people can come in, move out the old furnace and oil tank, and install a new natural gas furnace in a new location without worrying about them falling over piled bins.  If we need to move anything for them, we can do that easily as there is now plenty of space.

 

Do we still have work to do down there?  Yes, of course,  Moving the bins was easy.  Now we have to tackle the shelves where we keep things that we use relatively often.  We are determined to continue to de-clutter by donating or throwing away as much as possible, and that gets harder as you go from being ruthless with things you haven't seen in over a year to things that tug at heart strings or are part of traditions.  But we will do it though it may take longer as we don't have the goad of needing to have it done for workmen or for any other time crunch.

 

Once that is done, I have to find someone or some company that will come in and do a thorough job of cleaning everything: floors, walls, ceiling, I mean everything.  All of those surfaces are unfinished so it take specialized equipment that I don't have and wouldn't use even if I did have it.  There is too much dust, hair from pets, and even possible mold to be stirred up for either of us to do that kind of cleaning.

 

But that's in the future.  Right now we are very happy with the results of our work and our decisions.  D goes downstairs every so often to walk around and admire the spacious, tidy look of the basement even though I don't find it camera-worthy!