RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
It'll pass. It's overwhelming and an insanely daunting pile of things to do now, but in reality it's all just a lot of one thing at a time, find a place for this, figure out where you put that, over and over. You got this.
Just get the basics sorted -- a place to flop out and get a decent night's sleep, the clothes and toiletries you need in the morning, a place to charge your phone. Everything else is just settling in to your new home.
It's a process. It's a motherfucker, but it's filled with lots of good little moments. Focus on those and you'll be done before you know it.
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lonelyahavaCall me Ahava ~~She/Her~~Move to New ZealandRegistered Userregular
And if you get a few weeks down the road and it's not working for you, you can always reorganize.
I keep forgetting this and I need to do something in my kitchen soon.
I am so fucking ready for this day to be over. Or for someone to stab me in the fucking heart so I don't have to deal with this bullshit anymore. Fuckin A THOUSAND things to buy because this is our first aapartment, we're not even close to being unpacked.
F U C K I hate moving
Have you had your Moving Beer? It's vitally important that you procure the frostiest, most refreshing beer possible after your first day of unpacking. I think there's a law somewhere. Probably have pizza or a really good burger with it just to be safe.
Also, if you're buying a bunch of stuff for your home, check out thewirecutter.com. They're pretty much the best review site I've found for household items.
I don't drink but I did totally buy a hash pen earlier so :V
We at least have the bedroom and living room set up.
All you need to do is do the kitchen now and then I wouldn't worry about it.
You'll have ask the important stuff out and now if you don't need to unpack it, it is probably a good indicator that you don't actually need it.
RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
I really really enjoy assembling IKEA stuff.
We live about ten minutes from an IKEA currently, and that is very, very dangerous for my budget.
I found some curtains on clearance there the other day, so I finally pulled out the shitty sliding doors in the basement closets that were loud, heavy, ugly and only let you access 40% of the closet at a time, then finally got out the sewing machine we got as a wedding present ten years ago but only recently retrieved from storage and managed to figure out how to get it set up so I could hem the curtains to the right length to hang them on a curtain rod over the closets. Felt like leveling up a new skill, so now I’m going around the house figuring out what else I could sew.
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KakodaimonosCode fondlerHelping the 1% get richerRegistered Userregular
I still can’t believe Mori’s parents harassed us because we weren’t finished unpacking by the third day.
I don't trust anyone if they don't have at least one box that never gets unpacked, it just gets moved from home to home for as long as you live.
I have whole drawers like that. The stuff has never been used but the drawers have been removed, transported to a new house and then put back with all the stuff still inside twice now.
One day I might need that scart to composite adaptor. Or the power brick for the photo printer that you can't buy the ink rolls for anymore.
The one about the fucking space hairdresser and the cowboy. He's got a tinfoil pal and a pedal bin
I still have boxes I have not unpacked when I ended up here nearly 11 years ago I know I moved here basically with the clothes on my back a backpack and a overseas bag
I will not go into anymore detail of it as I thought that was a very low point of my life
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The JudgeThe Terwilliger CurvesRegistered Userregular
A unit and a half of mulch just got dropped in my driveway. My life is going to involve a lot of digging over the next few days if I want to use the garage any time soon.
Fortunately, I've planned ahead and have a more-than-adequate supply of yard beer.
Last pint: Turmoil CDA / Barley Brown's - Untappd: TheJudge_PDX
The first real yardwork day I had I was like...I dont wanna drink my good stuff, this sucks.
Always have my case of Maryland law required Natty Boh on hand now.
Also there's been nothing more frustrating than wondering where important stuff is now that most of it's unpacked, and having no idea, yet being able to tell you exactly where that charging cable for a phone I no longer own is - because it's in the same coffee cup filled with odds and ends it's been in for the last 5 years.
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The JudgeThe Terwilliger CurvesRegistered Userregular
Physical labor elevates beer quality, so going lower end on your yard beer is always the right call.
Last pint: Turmoil CDA / Barley Brown's - Untappd: TheJudge_PDX
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Also it's nice to be able to chug a beer and not get tipsy from it.
After being in our house for nearly a year I'm glad others have been in places longer and are not fully unpacked. We're close, but ongoing maintenance on the house and starting big projects have delayed little things like unpacking all my CDs, sorting the random boxes of cables and taking inventory on them, changing outdoor light bulbs that require a ladder, and hanging up any posters or pictures on the walls. Our computer room is a mess because it's usable. The video game room has unopened boxes of things we had shipped to the old house but didn't open because they arrived near our move date. There are unopened Lego sets. And just thinking about it all bums me out which then causes me to have no drive to get any of it done.
However, calling myself out on it just now has convinced me to at least get my damn CDs put away. I'm going to do that after work tonight.
This weekend I hope to make progress on the band practice room. Like real progress, not minor incremental barely noticeable progress.
The maintenance guy at this complex is an odd duck. Is that just a thing for maintenance people?
Also the internet installer comes today!!
Kitty is fine then? Saw your edit.
Yeah. Turns out there's these big fuckin gaps beneath two of the counters, in the corners. I taped some cardboard up so she can't get under there any more. She was hiding down there for like two hours. Little shit. Basically I freaked out super hard and wandered the neighborhood hollering for my cat on the verge of tears while she was napping at home.
The maintenance guy at this complex is an odd duck. Is that just a thing for maintenance people?
Also the internet installer comes today!!
Kitty is fine then? Saw your edit.
Yeah. Turns out there's these big fuckin gaps beneath two of the counters, in the corners. I taped some cardboard up so she can't get under there any more. She was hiding down there for like two hours. Little shit. Basically I freaked out super hard and wandered the neighborhood hollering for my cat on the verge of tears while she was napping at home.
I still can’t believe Mori’s parents harassed us because we weren’t finished unpacking by the third day.
I don't trust anyone if they don't have at least one box that never gets unpacked, it just gets moved from home to home for as long as you live.
This would drive me insane
I know this because I am in the process of being driven insane by the fact that sheri and her mom have a garage full of stuff that has never been unpacked since they moved here 10 years ago.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Garden People! I have some tomato plants in raised boxes that all their leaves are curling up, even the flower petals. I have another couple plants in bigger raised beds and they seem to be doing fine. All are planted in the same soil and have about the same soil depth to grow. I'm not sure whats going on. I'm going to get some PH strips tomorrow from the garden store but I was wondering if folks have any ideas.
Garden People! I have some tomato plants in raised boxes that all their leaves are curling up, even the flower petals. I have another couple plants in bigger raised beds and they seem to be doing fine. All are planted in the same soil and have about the same soil depth to grow. I'm not sure whats going on. I'm going to get some PH strips tomorrow from the garden store but I was wondering if folks have any ideas.
Based on my tomater experience, it's either not enough water or too hot. A raised bed especially is harder to keep hydrated. Also I don't know what state/country you're in, but in Texas "full sun" plants like tomatoes MUST be planted in partial shade or the heat will obliterate them.
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webguy20I spend too much time on the InternetRegistered Userregular
Garden People! I have some tomato plants in raised boxes that all their leaves are curling up, even the flower petals. I have another couple plants in bigger raised beds and they seem to be doing fine. All are planted in the same soil and have about the same soil depth to grow. I'm not sure whats going on. I'm going to get some PH strips tomorrow from the garden store but I was wondering if folks have any ideas.
Based on my tomater experience, it's either not enough water or too hot. A raised bed especially is harder to keep hydrated. Also I don't know what state/country you're in, but in Texas "full sun" plants like tomatoes MUST be planted in partial shade or the heat will obliterate them.
So the ones that are curing are in 1x3 raised beds, and the one that isn't is near the middle of a 4x4 raised bed. I think reading your post that I'll drape some sun shade cloth across the tops of the tomato cages, should help shield them and the soil from the sun during the heat of the day. I think I might buy some hay and put some straw over the top of the soil to help keep the direct sun off of it as well.
Garden People! I have some tomato plants in raised boxes that all their leaves are curling up, even the flower petals. I have another couple plants in bigger raised beds and they seem to be doing fine. All are planted in the same soil and have about the same soil depth to grow. I'm not sure whats going on. I'm going to get some PH strips tomorrow from the garden store but I was wondering if folks have any ideas.
Based on my tomater experience, it's either not enough water or too hot. A raised bed especially is harder to keep hydrated. Also I don't know what state/country you're in, but in Texas "full sun" plants like tomatoes MUST be planted in partial shade or the heat will obliterate them.
So the ones that are curing are in 1x3 raised beds, and the one that isn't is near the middle of a 4x4 raised bed. I think reading your post that I'll drape some sun shade cloth across the tops of the tomato cages, should help shield them and the soil from the sun during the heat of the day. I think I might buy some hay and put some straw over the top of the soil to help keep the direct sun off of it as well.
Any sort of mulching is a good idea! Helps keep the water from evaporating in the heat, as well.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
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CambiataCommander ShepardThe likes of which even GAWD has never seenRegistered Userregular
Which reminds me I need to mulch some spots.
"If you divide the whole world into just enemies and friends, you'll end up destroying everything" --Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind
Some insect has devoured my sunflowers. Oddly enough, the other plants are fine, but the sunflowers are just a stem now with no leaves.
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JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
I was at Lowe’s this morning picking up some supplies to set up my kitchen when I received a call from Lowe’s. They said that they were getting ready to load up my fridge when they discovered some minor damage, and did I want to come in and see if I’d accept it for 20% off.
I told them I was about thirty yards away, walked over, and they showed me a tiny dent way down by the floor on the hinge edge of the door. It looked like the fridge got into a fender bender with Ralph the motorcycle mouse.
So yeah, between that and the 10% zombie employee discount, I’ve saved $300 on this appliance. I’m gonna give this delivery so many stars when I get the survey call.
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
The local children in this complex sure do love sprinting up down the metal exterior stairs.
Sounds like thunder having a fist fight with a truck crashing.
My husband said I sound like an 80 year old yelling about these damn noisy kids. With their zima, their dan fogleberg and their hula hoops.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
Fuck shelf liner. I spent like an hour trying to cut it into something approximating neat drawer-sized rectangles and mostly failing. When it came to the cabinets, I realized that they were eleven inches deep and the roll I had was twenty inches wide.
So then I spent about ten seconds cutting the entire roll in half with a kitchen knife, and an additional ten minutes rolling it out into all of my cabinets. It doesn't go all the way to the back of the cabinet, but all the prime real estate is covered. And it looks way neater than the sadness rhombus lurking at the bottom of all my drawers now.
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Just get the basics sorted -- a place to flop out and get a decent night's sleep, the clothes and toiletries you need in the morning, a place to charge your phone. Everything else is just settling in to your new home.
It's a process. It's a motherfucker, but it's filled with lots of good little moments. Focus on those and you'll be done before you know it.
I keep forgetting this and I need to do something in my kitchen soon.
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All you need to do is do the kitchen now and then I wouldn't worry about it.
You'll have ask the important stuff out and now if you don't need to unpack it, it is probably a good indicator that you don't actually need it.
Satans..... hints.....
We live about ten minutes from an IKEA currently, and that is very, very dangerous for my budget.
I found some curtains on clearance there the other day, so I finally pulled out the shitty sliding doors in the basement closets that were loud, heavy, ugly and only let you access 40% of the closet at a time, then finally got out the sewing machine we got as a wedding present ten years ago but only recently retrieved from storage and managed to figure out how to get it set up so I could hem the curtains to the right length to hang them on a curtain rod over the closets. Felt like leveling up a new skill, so now I’m going around the house figuring out what else I could sew.
I don't trust anyone if they don't have at least one box that never gets unpacked, it just gets moved from home to home for as long as you live.
I have whole drawers like that. The stuff has never been used but the drawers have been removed, transported to a new house and then put back with all the stuff still inside twice now.
One day I might need that scart to composite adaptor. Or the power brick for the photo printer that you can't buy the ink rolls for anymore.
I will not go into anymore detail of it as I thought that was a very low point of my life
Fortunately, I've planned ahead and have a more-than-adequate supply of yard beer.
The first real yardwork day I had I was like...I dont wanna drink my good stuff, this sucks.
Always have my case of Maryland law required Natty Boh on hand now.
Also there's been nothing more frustrating than wondering where important stuff is now that most of it's unpacked, and having no idea, yet being able to tell you exactly where that charging cable for a phone I no longer own is - because it's in the same coffee cup filled with odds and ends it's been in for the last 5 years.
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However, calling myself out on it just now has convinced me to at least get my damn CDs put away. I'm going to do that after work tonight.
This weekend I hope to make progress on the band practice room. Like real progress, not minor incremental barely noticeable progress.
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Why waste time with shitty beer?
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Also the internet installer comes today!!
Pretty common based on the half dozen or so handymen I've dealt with in my life.
Kitty is fine then? Saw your edit.
Yeah. Turns out there's these big fuckin gaps beneath two of the counters, in the corners. I taped some cardboard up so she can't get under there any more. She was hiding down there for like two hours. Little shit. Basically I freaked out super hard and wandered the neighborhood hollering for my cat on the verge of tears while she was napping at home.
Cats are real fucking assholes.
This would drive me insane
I know this because I am in the process of being driven insane by the fact that sheri and her mom have a garage full of stuff that has never been unpacked since they moved here 10 years ago.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Based on my tomater experience, it's either not enough water or too hot. A raised bed especially is harder to keep hydrated. Also I don't know what state/country you're in, but in Texas "full sun" plants like tomatoes MUST be planted in partial shade or the heat will obliterate them.
So the ones that are curing are in 1x3 raised beds, and the one that isn't is near the middle of a 4x4 raised bed. I think reading your post that I'll drape some sun shade cloth across the tops of the tomato cages, should help shield them and the soil from the sun during the heat of the day. I think I might buy some hay and put some straw over the top of the soil to help keep the direct sun off of it as well.
Origin ID: Discgolfer27
Untappd ID: Discgolfer1981
Any sort of mulching is a good idea! Helps keep the water from evaporating in the heat, as well.
I told them I was about thirty yards away, walked over, and they showed me a tiny dent way down by the floor on the hinge edge of the door. It looked like the fridge got into a fender bender with Ralph the motorcycle mouse.
So yeah, between that and the 10% zombie employee discount, I’ve saved $300 on this appliance. I’m gonna give this delivery so many stars when I get the survey call.
Sounds like thunder having a fist fight with a truck crashing.
My husband said I sound like an 80 year old yelling about these damn noisy kids. With their zima, their dan fogleberg and their hula hoops.
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But I'm really excited to finally finish floor to ceiling bookshelves
Edit: this is maybe 25 or 30 percent complete
or do you have a slidy wooden one like the bookstore guy in beauty and the beast?
I think it's legally mandated that he puts one of those in.
So then I spent about ten seconds cutting the entire roll in half with a kitchen knife, and an additional ten minutes rolling it out into all of my cabinets. It doesn't go all the way to the back of the cabinet, but all the prime real estate is covered. And it looks way neater than the sadness rhombus lurking at the bottom of all my drawers now.
Nope!
and if anyone has a problem with it, they're welcome to the cleaning supplies!