There are still tons of boxes in the shop and upstairs above the sewing room. We mostly have everything unpacked that we need to carry on our routine so, in theory, everything still in boxes, 10 months after the move, should be donated or tossed. That’s the theory. In reality, there’s still lots of good stuff in those boxes.
It’s so hot inside the shop and especially upstairs so any digging through boxes has to be done very early in the mornings.
Over the past few weeks, every now and then I wondered where my La Cloche might be. I asked Vince if he had seen it. Nope . . had not! In MO, I kept it in the drawer under the stove and I was wondering if maybe it had been left there. I’m wanting to make more and better bread and I needed that pan. Last night, I even went so far as to put another one in the shopping cart and then I decided to diligently search for my old one before ordering another one. Good choice, huh? That’s one of the reasons we have so much stuff . . it’s easier to buy new than find the old.
It rained last night so I didn’t have to water the garden this morning. After getting a batch of bread stirred up, I went right out to start digging through boxes before it got too hot. The very first box I opened had some of the black iron skillets that had been in the drawer under the stove so I was feeling pretty darned lucky. Also in that box was the bottom to my La Cloche. I couldn’t believe that with the hundreds of boxes, I found it in the very first box. But, the box was completely unpacked and no lid was found. For over an hour, I searched through boxes. I tried to match up numbers . . you know how all those boxes have United Movers’ numbers on them. You would think if the bottom was in box #079, the top might be in either #078 or #080. Not so! It was getting too hot to stay upstairs so I decided to quit for the day but then figured I’d open some of the boxes that were downstairs and see if anything looked like it might have been close to where the La Cloche was stored. Finally, another hour later I found the top!
I’m amazed that I found it and further amazed that the two pieces weren’t packed in the same box but . . it’s found and that’s what matters.
While searching through boxes, I found a few other goodies and I’m going to try to spend at least one hour every morning unpacking some of those boxes!
swooze says
That is what I did when I was looking for some important papers. I knew generally where they were and was amazed at was actually in boxes that were labeled a little “differently”. I need to use your one hour a day trick because I have to keep getting through this stuff!! Maybe we need a whats in your boxes Wednesday! LOL
Karen says
I can relate – I just spent a bundle buying two sets of 6″ double point needles – I know I have two sets here somewhere but I haven’t been able to find them. The needles weren’t expensive but I had to buy 6 skeins of hand-dyed yarn- they were calling to me!
Susan says
I am having a treasure hunt here too……. Sometimes it is like Christmas when I open a box………….. I am trying to get 30 minutes each morning before it gets too hot upstairs……… So far I have managed that for two days……..VBG
vickie van dyken says
Alright…you have inspired me 🙂 I need some of those things that are still packed away, but there is a garage sale of immense size sitting out there….I need to have it, get the garage cleaned out…and put my long arm out there !!! I think an hour a day is a perfectly acceptable goal and so I am going to try and do it!! Maybe in August you can all come on over to Everson, WA and attend my once in a lifetime….garage sale!!
Thanks for the inspiration!!!
Vickie, in WA where it is going to rain again and be maybe 60 degrees..no worry about over heating here…LOL
Peggy in KY says
I thought I had gone through every box in the house. I was looking for some beeds the other day and remembered seeing some when I was looking for a cake pan a few days prior. As soon as I opened a box I realized that I had not been in this box. It had all my cake decorating supplies that I thought I had already given away. I continued to dig and I found an old corsage with small pearls….perfect for centers of ribbon flowers I was making. Then I opened another box inside the box I was looking in and there was a bracelet I have been trying to find over a year now. Also a few other trinkets that I didn’t know I owned. The bracelet doesn’t fit and I was hoping it was gold, but it isn’t….too bad. I will still take it in to the jeweler, because it is still like new and has a makers name on it.
Susan Torrens says
We had multiple moves over the years, and there was no rhyme or reason for the way movers packed and labelled boxes!
Linda Steller says
I used to have one of those, Judy. I donated it to Goodwill a few years ago. I never did figure out how to use it properly.
Diana in Texas says
The joys of moves and having other people pack for you! I would certainkly find lots of unlike items in boxes. In the long run our Chinese movers did a better job of keeping things together! Or maybe by thqt point in time, I did a better job of keeping things together. No, it must have been them!!!