Pack Out Complete

Two days of packers and movers in the house and now it's all been boxed and carted away.

Even though the whole family isn't moving this time, it was still pretty time consuming and stressful to get it all sorted and lined up.

Some pics of the mess piles and action:

the man cave
"before"

books, piles of clothes, Lord of the Rings collectibles
random Winnie-the-Pooh

more books, ironing board
important stuff

clothes all over the couch
boxes from the attic on right
boxes of stuff going UAB on left

stack of plastic bins from attic - going to storage

consumables and UAB

a bit of stuff going in the luggage and carry-on bags

the packers arrive!

using the deck space out back to wrap and pack some things
for storage
see the rock hound equipment?
and purple bag of skis?
and instruments?
and artwork (already boxed)?

over by the brown tarp ... that is the TRASH pile!
or I should say, what son #1 flattened and put out for the recycle pick up
bye bye old empty boxes

the recycle pile keeps getting bigger

poor daughter
she shares the basement with the treadmill, weight machine
and lots of dad's stuff
some of it is packed up here, going to storage

daughter is trying to work on a drawing on the computer
amidst lots of packed boxes

the stuff piled behind her chair

more stuff piled in the walkway

and nearly blocking the bathroom

the man cave mostly packed up

another view of the man cave

emptied shelves

stuff going to storage

beginning to load it all up!

first lift van is full, time to open the next one
lift van = large wooden crate

When all was said and done, we had filled two entire lift vans with stuff for storage.  The UAB weighed in at 160 lbs of the 250 lbs allowed.  The HHE (also going by air) weighed in at 276 pounds of the 750 lbs allowed.
There are about 60 lbs of items set aside for the two suitcases (we use LL Bean large rolling duffles).  We haven't been notified yet of what the items that went to storage weighed.

The scary part is that all this stuff is coming back in a year, if we bid on DC jobs to start summer 2015.  >.<

Paris?  I hear you calling my name.  Please call it louder ... until DoS hears and gives husband a handshake ...

Note:  handshake is Foreign Service speak for commitment to an assignment