Posts Tagged ‘moving home’
10 days to move out
Posted on: 19/09/2011
Well, things have become insanely busy round here! Admittedly it has rather more with trying to say goodbye to friends and keeping track of an increasingly intrepid toddler, than to do with any packing that should be being done… Indeed, the only reason I am sitting down to blog about it is because Loved One bought me a shiny new iPad for my birthday and I wanted to try out the WordPress app. Which is OK, but very basic. Nothing but plain text and NO pictures. Which might explain the rather boring appearance of this particular post..
Here are six things I am slowly starting to realise about moving:
One
Take all offers of childcare you can beg, bribe or blag – you need every second of child free time you can get.
Two
Try and keep doing things you enjoy if you can. Don’t let the packing demons force you into a hermit-like existence or you will become a person devoid of good humour and your children will hide from you.
Three
When you are doing things you enjoy, try and ensure it doesn’t involve more laundry or catering than normal. Swimming, for instance, will give you a double headache because you have to find somewhere to dry the kit afterward. And on no account do it three times in the last ten days.
Four
When trying to chase up school admission departments who seem to have no idea of the urgency of the situation, do so before 2pm and on a weekday, or the entire department will have gone home and left nothing but an irritating answer machine message telling you to call back at a more suitable time.
Five
If you have been running around like a headless chicken all day, do not expect to be able to pull out endless reserves of stamina to deal with yet more headless chicken impressions in the evening. You will get the kids in bed and you will no longer be any good to anyone.
Six
When contemplating the sheer enormity of what you need to achieve, do not let your urge to procrastinate inspire you to blog about your predicament rather than picking your socks up and actually getting on with it.
Yes,well…
I look forward to updating you when the dust settles. And if you catch me blogging between now and then, feel free to give me the severe reprimand I deserve.
Comparing removal quotes tonight, I suddenly realised that this house move is finding me nose deep in spreadsheets most of the time. Considering I generally don’t use the application, this is quite a dramatic change for me.
If it’s not comparing quotes from removal companies, it’s planning rooms, checking items off lists, and so on. Look…
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See what I mean? If nothing else, it’s made me realise I’ve not been sitting idle…
Will I still be this into spreadsheets after the move is over?
Hmm… Probably not.
We are now officially ‘Sale Agreed’!
Our buyer, who seems like a really nice and genuine person, has offered at a price we find acceptable, and his own buyer has already completed. Solicitor’s details have been exchanged, and it is the furthest we have managed to get in the almost six months that we have been on the market.
Of course, any number of things could go wrong. Someone could lose their job. Someone could pop their clogs (the buyer’s buyers are in their eighties). Someone could change their mind. Someone could have got their numbers mixed up.
But, for now, I’m just looking forward to seeing the sign outside our house change from ‘For Sale’ to ‘Sold’.
And finding a home of our own, of course. All the ones we adored have long gone, but no doubt there’ll be something out there for us, waiting to be our home.
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