I love to purge. Nothing makes me happier than cleaning things out and throwing them away. Neat tidy shelves bring me joy, and organized bins make me ecstatic. For the most part this serves my family well, and then there are times it doesn’t. Like when you can’t find your BLS card and therefore you cant start your new job until you get a new one. Oops. Two weeks unpaid, unplanned vacation, double oops. It’s gonna hurt in few weeks. OR when you purge all of your old furniture (thinking it’s a good idea), and then when you move you again you find yourself needing every article of furniture (probably a bad idea).
So, we have been saving madly trying to plan for all the purchases that we would need to make, on top of moving expenses. And in keeping with our true form, many of these purchases included thrift store and second hand. Which is great, except we have a tiny Honda that can’t even haul two laundry baskets, let alone a washer and dryer, box spring, kitchen table, blah blah blah. So strategically we made purchases across the 4 corners of Portland, driving our kids around in the heat, in a weakly air conditioned car. We are so nice! By the third day we are all feeling the pain, and growing increasingly cranky and tired. I was emotional, knowing I had to fly back to Spokane the next day and work for three more days and then promptly start my new job.
Bright and early we scheduled a rental pickup truck and began our collection across the four corners. One of which included a washer dryer combo in north Portland. All belongings successfully acquired we came home to unload.
Thats when things got ugly. And in my defense (I have no defense), it is hard to move! They were really heavy! I was tired! Do you feel bad for me, well you shouldn’t. I unloaded on Andy, yelling at him and banging my fist on the washer in front of my kids. Addy tells me, I need to need to be gentle and not yell. Soooo, I got a timeout and gave apologies all around. Moving is not easy people. Oh, and the dryer doesn’t work. Awesome.
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