Unconditionally Yours...

Well, today is a big day for us - our house sale went unconditional today. This means that the window in which the buyer can pull out for any reason - including issues with the building inspection, and problems getting a loan for the purchase - is now closed. Translation : we're definitely getting out of here soon! Transfer date (the day which we need to be out) is Wednesday 22nd November.

We plan on moving most of our stuff into storage on Monday the 20th. I booked a moving van today for the move - a 3 tonne jobbie from Budget Rentals. Conveniently, they have a half price deal on Mondays and Tuesdays - Bonus!

My Dad & Brother have graciously offered to build a shed at their place to store our gear while we're travelling. How awesome is that? This is a great solution for a lot of reasons, not least of which is cost. A crappy little storage shed at a storage shed place (I'm sure there is a proper name for them, but I don't know it - and the term "storage shed place", while not elegant, is self explanatory) is upwards of $130 per month - and that's for something small like 2 x 2.5 metres. Considering we're planning on going away for up to 2 years, we'd be looking at around $3k for a tiny little shed! And I'm not even sure that would be big enough for what we need. Craziness...

Anyhow, now we're in the situation of having to pack everything we want to store into boxes. I got a good deal on a bulk lot of secondhand packing boxes off EBay, so now we have plenty of containers to put all our worldly possessions in. It would be so much easier to just pack everything, but we figure we should be trying to get rid of at lest some junk instead of storing it.

With this in mind, we plan on having another garage sale this weekend to clear out at least some of the stuff we don't need/want any more. We had another sale a couple of weeks back and did ok, but this week we'll try and sell the remainder from last time, plus a bunch of stuff like lounge suites, dining suites, and other things we don't particularly want to store. We have found a lot more stuff to sell while clearing out, so it should be pretty big. I hope the weather holds out - there's no way we'll fit everything we want to sell inside our garage, so we'll need to lay a lot of it out on the driveway.

And incidentally, I'm really looking forward to those bargain shoppers who seem perfectly capable of reading your advert in the garage sale section of the paper, but somehow magically become illiterate when it comes to reading the "no buyers before 6am" part :-)