OMG I am so sick. It's all PunkRock's fault - he brought this plague upon me. And then I gave it to DarkKnight. I've had a sore throat since Tuesday, but today I can't stop blowing my nose. The sore throat still sucks! All of our medicine and tissues are packed away, so I will have to do some specific shopping today!
Speaking of shopping, Prime members can try Amazon Fresh free for one month, so I signed up last night and placed a grocery order. I spent about what I normally would at the store, but now it's going to be delivered to my front porch! I am interested to see how it goes. Last night's 10 pm order promises to be here Friday morning. I was able to add a couple of things to it today, so that was kinda cool. We will see how it goes!
I spent all day yesterday with both of my daughters at the old house. My oldest was upstairs cleaning for like 8 hours! That's pretty terrible - I had no idea it would take so long, but she did a deep clean and all of those rooms are bedrooms with carpets. 2 full bathrooms too. Today she is going to do the main level of the house. I hired someone online to come over and clean the basement today - I am hoping they don't flake and that they do a good job! I sent them photos and they quoted me exactly what my daughter said it was worth, so that was a good first sign. Supposedly she used to own a cleaning business for 15 years.
Anyway, while my oldest daughter was cleaning, my youngest was loading her car with stuff she had forgotten that she owned, and then she packed up more of PunkRock's art supplies in the basement. I spent the entire time running an online yardsale, with strict appointment times. I posted a bunch of pictures with prices, and then people PMed me and I gave them a time to show up and buy that item and look over the other junk we had. It was really busy but totally worth the time! I had planned to do an indoor yard sale with signs and such, much more traditional, but then decided all the pricing and advertising and merchandising would eat into my life too much. It worked out great and I was able to get rid of all the really large junky pieces of furniture I would have had a hard time getting the Salvation Army to take! This was a bonus also because none of the junky stuff would fit into our cars to transport, even to the dump, so selling it or giving it away online worked perfectly. I went from having items in 6 rooms and the garage to having only stuff in my dining room, and the garage now has a small pile for the Habitat for Humanity Restore, and they are coming tomorrow to pick up our donation.
Today my plan is to fill my car with stuff from the dining room and make a couple of trips to the Salvation Army or Goodwill. Wherever. I just want it all gone! It's all random things - kitchenware, clothing, curtains. I won't miss any of it! I have a couple of other larger furniture pieces to sell that I didn't yesterday - an art table that was in use at the time, a jewelry armoire and another smaller side table. I think they will sell easily.
I don't have any new house pics to add here, but we did hear back from our contractor - it's going to cost $1500 to $2000 for a brand new basement floor, which includes the supports and plywood subfloor. The plan is to lay it over the existing concrete mess that is there now, after PunkRock tears out all the wall paneling, terrible linoleum and ancient carpets, and then Drylocks everything. We really need to schedule this ASAP, but there is no time! We have a trip to iKEA planned this Saturday, and then on Sunday he is finishing the living room fireplace wall.
I just wish I felt better. Being sick slows everything down!
