The Unpacking Continues

Linda Bittle

I may actually get ALL the moving boxes unpacked this time!

I've got this one big walk-in closet that I'm using to store my herbs, crafts, holiday decorations, wildlife tracking, and hunting and fishing gear in. I need one more shelf and some more storage boxes and I think it will be done!

I made 3 trips to the dumpster today with random papers, boxes I thought I might use, and little things I thought I might use for crafts someday. I send anything that might be of any value to my sister's thrift store booth. I made 10.00 on an UGLY Christmas decoration that I'd been hauling around!

I'll post photos when I'm done, but I can tell you it will be nice to have everything in the right place, and accessible so that I can find and use things.

Fortunately, I'm not a woman who needs a lot of dress-up clothes, so I can use the larger closet for my "important" stuff. I've also put the bookshelves and computer in the larger bedroom for the same reason.

After all, the cats and I don't need a huge bedroom just to sleep!

It feels really good to be getting close to having everything unpacked for the first time in about 15 years.

VermontCathy

@Mary Linda Bittle, West Plains, Missouri "I may actually get ALL the moving boxes unpacked this time!"

That would be a first for me. We still have boxes from 7 years ago that were never unpacked.

Linda Bittle

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/887831#Comment_887831

Yep. I never got all unpacked when I moved to Washington in 2006, or to Idaho in 2016!

Jens the Beekeeper

@Mary Linda Bittle, West Plains, Missouri whoooI threw away ten unopened boxes this fall after 13 years sitting in the cellar taking up space.

Marjory Wildcraft

Congrats! That must feel incredable. To be settled.

Linda Bittle

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/887867#Comment_887867

I'm getting there!

Marjory Wildcraft

Oh Mary, I just realized you are in West Plains.

Great little town.

Linda Bittle

https://community.thegrownetwork.com/discussion/comment/887871#Comment_887871

Yes, I like it a lot. 2 farmer's markets and a herb/health food store!

Michelle D

Completing the unpacking is so rewarding. How exciting! I know the feeling. We never finished unpacking when we moved in 2013. We moved to where we are now in 2015. We just finished unpacking the last few boxes this past fall!

VickiP

Always exciting! I have lived here almost 10 years and still have some stuff in boxes.

RustBeltCowgirl

Gives me hope that I may get all my boxes unpacked.....eventually.

lewis.mary.e

I feel like we'll never be unpacked completely. It's baffling me as to how we moved from an 850 square foot home to a 1400 square foot home, and there doesn't seem to be room for our stuff.

Linda Bittle

I am so glad that I'm not the only one! I told myself that I didn't unpack because I knew I would eventually move on. And I hope not to live in this apartment for a long time, but I am motivated to unpack and sort, sell or give away, refine and recover things I've missed.

dipat2005

I moved from a 3 bedroom house and packed 200 boxes. I now live in a 2 bedroom apartment. One bedroom has no heat and hasn't for more than 2 years and I consider it my storage room. At one time I was storing 4 peoples stuff and now it is down to me and 1 other friend. I only packed up 75 boxes the last time I moved. Amazing. Once a year I throw more boxes away. But I am losing the battle it seems. After my hip surgery I lost time and energy. Things began to pile up.

I am working on getting out from so many boxes. This apartment has limited space and since I really dislike hanging things on walls I have been using shelves and one of my mother's dressers.