Head Tale

1. I was lamenting that our new dishwasher didn’t seem as big as the dishwasher at our old house and barely had room for a row of big plates and a row of small plates on the bottom rack.  My mother-in-law casually reached in the dishwasher and took the utensil tray (which was along the front of the tray) and turned it so it was along the side of the rack freeing up about three inches more of space. 😮
2. I had read online that if you rent a “Big Steel Box”, you should try to distribute the weight evenly throughout the container.  But I also wanted to maximize our use of the 8′ high shipping container so I loaded it to the ceiling three rows deep along the front, mostly with boxes of heavy books.  Then, after filling with various other boxes of household goods and clothes, the container was only half full so I began loading the back end of the container with other items – furniture, storage shelves.  I didn’t think about how much lighter it was at one end than the other until the driver went to unload the container from his flatbed truck and it *almost wouldn’t slide off* because it was so front-heavy.  “Hmmm, that’s never happened in three years of me doing this job,” he said.
3. We had some tile work done to put a backsplash in our kitchen but didn’t think to tell them to go right over the spot where there is a phone jack so, I guess if we ever re-sell to one of the few people left in the world who still uses a landline, we’ve got them covered.
4. We planned out where most of our existing furniture might fit in our new house but one custom bookshelf we previously had in our dining room loaded with cookbooks and knick-knacks that we planned to put in Sasha’s room since it also had a built-in desk didn’t happen since the piece was so high, the movers couldn’t make the turn to get it into Sasha’s new room!  The same thing happened with our treadmill which they couldn’t get downstairs.  I mean, if I pushed harder, they might’ve disassembled then reassembled it but it’s really old and we didn’t use it much anymore so now, it’s currently taking up space in our garage waiting for me to either list it for sale, convert the garage into a gym or figure out what to do with it.
5. As a general rule, I tried to be conscious of packing stuff I knew I’d need/use right away in boxes where it’d be easy to get to them.  With that said, a short list of stuff I either briefly “lost” during the move or still can’t find to this day includes: my beard trimmer, a charging cord for a Bluetooth speaker, the external hard drive I use for a local backup for my computer, and even, for a brief period, a library book! 😉

Bonus: Once we moved in, I noticed our neighbours had their house very decorated including a sign that said “J&Y” which I thought was weird since their first names begin with “R” and “L”.  Since they had some angel decorations as well, my very advanced brain figured this was some sort of coded religious message (“Jesus and Yahweh”?) until Shea pointed out that what I was reading as an ampersand was actually a stylized “O” and the “coded” message was “Joy”. 🙂