It's not Unpacking... it's Organizing!

The hardest part of the unpacking process hasn't been getting us out of the boxes- nope, it's been getting stuff organized.

And I've been on an organizing frenzy!

It's also a multi-step process: line the shelf- sanitize all the dishes and then- yes, color-code them into coordinated cabinets. (see below)

Steam-clean, wash, sanitize, arrange, organize.

Even my towels are now color-coordinated into my linen closet.

And I purchased and assembled a shoe rack and then put all my shoes into color coordinated bins in the garage.

My closet? Yup- that's color coordinated too.

Moving has also been such a great excuse to get RID of stuff. We have donated enough to clothing to Goodwill to keep them going for a month!

Now, while I've been compulsively and meticulously organizing our stuff, Arun's been doing his share. He has used his skills with google and the phonebook to coordinate all the people we need for our move.

For example, our plasma tv can't have a tail to the outlet- so he hired an electrician to get the outlet moved.

Our third garage door didn't have an automatic garage door opener, so he hired someone for installation.

Last Saturday, we had 9 'visitors' (as Arun likes to call them) in our home doing all kinds of things:

a guy to take away our 180 empty boxes, someone to assemble our formal dining room table, a guy to fix our Comcast (since the Dish guys manage to cut our internet when they installed our satellite), a plumber, carpet cleaners, landscaper etc. etc. etc.

So here's the tally of the workload:

Me: unpack 180 boxes, arrange and organize entire household contents

Arun: call service-people

Yeah- next time, I think we're going to switch roles!

But all's well that ends well- and ladies and gentlemen- we are now MOVED IN!