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Louise
I love it! They have houses as big as mine but don't want to clutter it I bet.
Every time I ask them to take their stuff they tell me next week, tomorrow or they have the carriages and car seats and can't fit anything more in their cars.

In fact I think I will get big cartons and put each ones left over stuff in it. Mind you they tell me what they think I should get rid of.

Merry Christmas and thanks for the great idea!
Kath

Kath,
I am glad that I am not the only one packing now....we close on our house the 27th.....don't know why we planned it that way. They originally wanter us to close on the 21st, I threw a fit. The only Christmas decoration up is the Christmas tree!!! My walls are empty and my cabinets are bare.....off to storage it all goes. Do you have any idea how hard it is to find boxes? I could go on and on...then today my hubby was at the church and a friend of ours said that she would be bringing us moving boxes. HEr neighbors just moved to Boston and the movers left a ton of boxes soooo...she gave them to a friend of ours....and so now I can FINISH !!! HAve fun, but don't over do it !!!! GAYLE

Gayle
Every time we moved it was in Dec.
We got married in Nov and both moved into our apartment in Dec when we came back from our Honeymoon.
Then we bought our first house and I packed in labor and moved in when my second child was two weeks old and the first was a year... Dec.11
This house we moved into exactly 20 years to the day we moved into our first house.
When we first started dealing with our buyer we were supposed to move Dec.15
I almost lost it... LOL...
I have no idea where I'm going yet nor have I started to pack.
I must be CRAZY...

Where are you going Gayle?
Kath (adult/robpi)

Louise,

What a great idea!!

Joanie

Kath,
WE are buying a house! Just four blocks away but it is still considered a move. We were military so moving is a bad-bad word in our family. This is the last time my hubby said that he will make me do it...next time it will be by choice. But to pack and move a four bedroom house with a 1 1/2 car garage and a basement is a big task anytime let alone at Christmas. Luckily the weather her in Illinois is holding out so we can only hope it stays this way !!

For those that are moving or are getting rid of junk.
A lady at church told me it is easier to get rid of stuff if you take a picture of it and put it in an album. Her kids are older and she did this with a bunch of their "ARTWORK" she said it made it so much easier to get rid of these items. Maybe I need to do this with all of Brandon's therapy toys...that he will never paly with again and all his splints....!!! LOL

GAYLE

Kath,....What a brilliant idea for you to do. Get Beautiful ribbons, grograin if you can find it now and make the BIGGEST bows you can!! Wow! Please share those pictures of the "Grand Openings". It will make my Year of laughter, I bet.

Gayle,...Wow, your kids must be driving you nutty asking you a million times which house Santa is coming too!
I DO HOPE Santa gives you a MASSAGE Gift Certificate for after the move

Louise, you are a Genius!...and I do hope Santa brings you uboth part time Jobs for 2007...Have you tried contacting AARP..I just learned they have a Resource for us.

HUGS all around,
Carolyn J

Gayle
hmmm sounds like a good idea.
I am moving from a large 5 bedroom and a finished basement to a 2/3 bedroom and about 1/4 the size of this one. I will have to move again when the house we want to buy is finished... I just can't figure how to squeeze my stuff in a small place while I wait. I also have to decide what to keep, store, move or get rid of... ugh too many decisions at this time of year!

Glad you are moving around the corner. I am never moving again after these two moves. I don't move well. I have to move out of my town for a few months and I hate leaving it. I am only talking 10 minutes away... LOL..

On a serious side the last two times I moved I hurt my self. I seem to think I can do things without paying the price. Now that my hands arm and back are so bad this could be a problem... Besides the fact that I am older and a little slower.... It's hard to pace yourself when your packing because 7 weeks fly by.

Off to wrap the real Christmas Presents. I am finished shopping at last! And if I forgot something I'll chalk it up to old age... but my family never lets me use that as an excuse!
Good Luck with the move.
Kath robpi/adult

Kath, wow you have a project ahead of you. When we moved into this house we said that I would never move again......that the kids would have to clean the junk out when they put me and my hubby in nursing homes.LOL !

However because of legal issues, not ours, we have to move I hate it too, although being ex-military I am good at it. Back when I first met my hubby, I moved my whole house in the back of a budget truck (24 foot truck) with a trailer with my car and the puppy in his cage in the car, sent my 10 year old on an airplane and put my girls in the truck (AGES 1 and 6 at the time) and moved from Illinois to CAlifornia. I thought my dad would have a heart attack. WE made it safe, but I could never do that again !!! I am getting old !!! GAyle

Kath
Check into getting storage...they are so much better than they used to be and really not that expensive.....better yet, store your stuff at your kids house.....turnabout is fair play !! GAYLE