The water gets turned on tomorrow, and although our official "move-in" day on the lease is the 15th, it looks as if we'll be painting as soon as Tuesday.
There have been a few last-minute negotiations, it would seem, involving lawn care, but the owners have, so far, been quite reasonable in accommodating our requests, so we're being reasonable, too.
I've started putting books in boxes, and I've come to realize that I'll need more. Boxes, I mean. Books, I've got plenty of. Carlo managed to send a dozen or so paper boxes my way, but it looks like each of my four bookcases is going to take more than four boxes, so I'll come up a bit short. And that doesn't count the 51 volumes of The Harvard Classics or the assorted anthologies on my desk or the summer reading books that are scattered around the house or any of Hill's books. So unless I can find a place that still has those filing boxes for sale--normally, they're available only around tax time, but maybe I'll get lucky--I'll have to invest (I nearly wrote "throw away") some more money at the Home Depot for boxes.Which raises a larger point: Shouldn't there be some sort of use for those cardboard boxes after you move? Or at the very least, couldn't there be some sort of community box-swap? After the last move, every time I threw one of those boxes into the dumpster, I called out "one dollar and seventy-three cents."
I'm sure the neighbors thought I was loony, but they were probably right.
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I'd be all over your boxes, but it seems a little premature - we probably won't close until Octoberish! And you know, I'm really surprised there aren't organized moving-box swaps. Sounds like something a Freecycle group would (or should) do.
If I were ever inclined to pursue a PhD, my dissertation would be on the physical chemistry of paper. Because books are surely the most dense substance on earth.
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