Packing for storage

I just a few weeks ago I got another storage unit. Perhaps I should say second storage unit. I know I would eventually need a second one. I was just hoping I could cram everything into one.

Yeah, that didn't happen.

I have at least three rooms worth of stuff that I need to fit into the units. Most of this stuff is siting around loosely stacked. Not in boxes.

The short of it is, I was going to sell things online. My mom encouraged that but didn't realize that the items would be in the house until they sold. I also got some of the to sell and to keep items mixed up. So now I have a bug mess on my hands and in the basement.

The long story is, when I got my first unit my mom wanted me to bring most of it upstairs to get ready for the next day. She wanted to do 'just one more' load of laundry. She also wanted me to leave everything as it was because she could just walk around it. While carrying that last load of laundry she tripped on the boxes and smashed her elbow.

Yeah. I have just enough angsity while getting the car pack these days that I kinda avoid taking stuff to the unit. My mom doesn't blame me but she doesn't like it. She also really doesn't like it when I tell her to GTFO while walking around my stuff.

Today I made sure she was in designated safe places only. She was very amused.

This is my meandering way of trying to explain to myself why it has taken almost three years for me to not even fill my first unit.

I have probably spent $1,000 on shelving. I know I am going to spend more. This will all be re-used in my house when I get it. But it is a lot if money. Most people don't realize that you can NOT stack boxes on top of each other forever. I stack heaviest on the bottom and if I have done my packing right with the lightest on top... I can stack four boxes high. Thats it.

Any higher and the bottom one will collapse and then the things inside will get crushed. If I was living in a more humid place I could only stack three high. when the bottom box gets wet it will collapse. With the storage shelves i don't have to worry about that.

Plastic tubs can collapse also but I find they are more expensive and not worth it.

A little secret is that I worked at a storage and moving company for about six years. There was one employee that always insisted to people that you could stack boxes up to the ten foot celing in the units. They would always be the people that would complain that their things broke. The guy never listened when told not to tell people they could do that. He would just say "well, I guess that they just didn't do it right." He was perfectly safe from getting in trouble because the owner could pay him nothing for all the other work that he did.

So! do not over stack boxes! And don't start a business and leave it hanging after buying tons of crap. I'm off to re-arrange my units. Later all.

Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service

So... Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service is a thing I have heard some good reviews of, but there were not that many to start. It seems like it has been around for a bit but it's not really 'out there'? I don't know.

The wiki page has a link to each states section/school.

For New York State it's Cornell. I love that they have a page just to direct you to all the NYS offices. It makes things much easier.

There is actually a location by my parents house. I think I will try out a class or two even though it's about 45-60 min away. Annnnd.... It also looks like the site has a few pages that there last updated in 2015. There are a few from this year, but... eh.

I'm not quite sure home much my 'local' place can do with events/classes. But I will definitely keep this in mind when I get a home in the middle of no-ware. XD

House Hunt part 2

Ok! So another house from my hunt had a drug bust going on across the street when we arrived.

I can't even begin to tell you how much my mom was NOT HAPPY about this. My agent and I were trying to covertly snoop from the attic window with little to no luck seeing anything relevant but we had fun speculating and it. I am betting it was a hydro pot farm in the basement.

But on to the house.

The house was only needing cosmetic things.

The floors were mostly stripped. Probably someone started sanding them and gave up. It would literally be a breeze to finish sanding them and then seal them. Super high ceilings. The basement was a little damp but good solid walls.

It had endless amounts of character. I loved it.

Just not were it was. If this house had been on the farm land? Pure perfection. But it wasn't.

The drug bust across the street kinda killed the neighborhood for me. It just had a lot of little things like the streets were very narrow and we think the house next door might have been abandoned. People were out and about but... It just didn't have that home feeling.

So we kept looking.

Window trimmings

I know my mom will hate this, but I plan to make my own window covers for the winter & summer months. I will try and make some nice functionally decorative ones also because extra warmth is always good.

It would be like this:
-summer thin veils to let in the breeze but to keep out the harshest sun. (separate bar)
-decorative shades to look night and add warmth as needed.(separate bar)
-winter covers made of heavy-er fabric. (to be hung on summer bar with hooks)

I know this works because I have had my bed under a window during some very cold winters.

My mom hated the loose fabric I would fold over it but she relented when I had her reach past it. So much so that she almost borrowed some fabric for some other rooms. Unfortunately the pre-existing fixtures in the other rooms didn't work for this method. Currently I close my sisters (she moved out) bedroom door to keep the cold just to that room.

I have a small addiction to remnant bins at fabric stores. I have a lot of fabric and a sewing machine that I have use a grand total of one time. I plan on changing the latter as soon as I can.

I also plan to have any and all skylights ripped out. I hate them. They do nothing by leak and let in the cold.

But back to the drawing board.