- Did the student move. Mostly. Big guys came on Friday to move the heavy stuff while Firegazer and I moved all the small stuff. Took all weekend. Children 'too tired' or 'too bored' to help. Resolved to do full service move on the way back.
- Telstra managed to disconnect our land-line at the old house but failed to reconnect at the new house. Am not surprised. Telstra also failed to answer any calls regarding the matter.
- Why is the most useful phone number for Telstra in the white pages but not on their website? Big FAIL Telstra.
- Mail redirection is also a big fail. Our house is at No. 9. Due to typo the mail from No. 8 is being re-directed to our house. Only way to fix this is by WRITING SNAIL MAIL and waiting for someone to get out their quill and ink and fix the ledger.
- Luckily our temporary house is cute and cosy.
- Good news story - the space for the washing machine at the new house was too small for our current machine so was forced to purchase the machine and dryer that we had planned for our renovation anyway. LOVE my new front loader plus 6 star condenser heat pump dryer. Yes, 6 stars. Uses 1/8th of the power of our fridge per year.
- Salvation Army came and collected a room piled high with furniture and stuff. Didn't take: Moran sofa bed; 3 x IKEA Billy bookcases; 1 x 80cm CRT TV.
- Put all the above on the verge and they went within 12 hours.
- Love the verge Freecycle system.
- Renovation starts...tomorrow
Sunday, 26 September 2010
Renovation Diary - the move in 10 dot points
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Blimey, I would have thought 3 free bookcases was an awesome score if I'd been your verge recipient!
Good luck with whipping the builders into shape, now that you're out of the house.
No one wants a CRT TV anymore - no matter what the size. We were reduced to doing a kerb recycle as well. Someone took the guts of the TV - but removed the back and left that on the kerb!
People are strange.
Love the ladder on the side!
That actually wasn't what I popped on to say. I forget what it was now...
I'd have snagged the bookcases for sure!
Good luck with your reno. Hoping it is easy and painless. Exciting!
I too would have snagged those Billys! We're about to do a bit of verge freecycling, thank goodness for it.
Well done with moving yourself, but I so recommend never doing that again. After years of student moving myself (I think I once moved 8 times in 6 years, but have mainly blocked it out now), the best investment I ever made is paying someone else to do it. Definitely worth the cost.
Verge free-cycling is definitely the best.
Good luck with the renovation!
And yet, the Salvos didn't want the bookcases.
CRT TVs are a dime a dozen on the verges. However, for some reason we have managed to quickly move two of them in the last month and an old DVD player and VHS which weren't working.
Guys in trucks trawl our suburb every two weeks for the verge freecycle.
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