Peregrine

For a little over three years, my wife and I have maintained a 10×15 foot storage unit a couple of miles from our house. We were storing our washer & dryer, a very nice microwave oven, a complete set of kitchen wares plus some spare bits, 10 boxes of dry food storage items, 15 boxes & plastic crates of holiday decorations & crafts, two queen sized beds, two dining tables with 10 chairs between them, a few other miscellaneous furniture items, a few boxes with childhood keepsakes and about a dozen boxes of general stuff.

As you can see from that list, we didn’t have much extra stuff in there that didn’t make sense to keep.

Well, the situation with our house has recently allowed us to clear out a whole area of the basement. Because of that, we could now perform the juggling act needed to rearrange other rooms in the house and empty the storage unit. There are a couple of items that we will be storing at the house (beds, washer/dryer, etc.) but the rest will actually be put to use. In addition, the $70/month that we were spending on the storage unit is now staying in our pockets.

Of course, there is a downside to all of this. We ended up having to do almost all the work of hauling that stuff from the storage unit to our house, in the last two days of May (boy are we tired now). Also, it looks like the cardboard boxes have been replicating all over the house.

Still, it’s good that we’ll be getting all our stuff out. We anticipate that there will be several boxes of stuff we will take to Deseret Industries. In fact, a couple of weeks ago, we took 4 car loads of stuff (and we have a Saab 9000, so a car load is as big or bigger than many small pick-up trucks can carry) to DI. Yesterday, we took another 2 car loads worth to DI when we finished emptying the storage unit.

Now, for the next couple of weeks, we’re going to be very busy emptying boxes. Let the good times roll! eh?

But, for tonight, we’re going to make dinner, watch a movie and head to bed. After the last two days, we’re quite tired.