Cody's 33'x62' Garage

[madison069]

As I was packing at lunch time, how does it take place when you hire movers when it’s regarding stuff that’s no longer wanted? I’ve been purging stuff for several months, but as we creep into my wife’s area it’s obvious it hasn’t been purged. Then again I’ve purged more of my stuff as I pulled it out of the closets and cabinets. My wife is the type that won’t purge until it’s “do or die” time, so we’ve been dealing with it and the move has put it on the spot light now.

So do the mover just comes in and pack it all up and you deal with it at the new place? Or do you pack it for them and you’re able to purge as you go?

Seriously, next move I’m just having an estate sale and hiring a moving manager to move the stuff in the future if I have to move. Then again hopefully the next time I move it’s to the incinerator to “forever home”.

 

[gearhead1960]

I guess the answer depends on if you are paying them by weight or time? Obviously, if by weight, it pays to purge prior to the movers coming. By time, purging before means less to pack…..less time for mover. Pick your poison…..

 

[Blackbyrd]

Marathon not a sprint

 

[loganb]

If you pay the movers to pack, they pack it all. Dirty Kleenex on the table, trash in the trash can...it all goes unless you lock it in a bedroom or closet with giant signs on the door to not touch. The moving company charges by the lb but the movers frequently are paid a set amount for the job, so asking questions about pack this or pack that just slows it down...so it all goes.

If you just hire them to move prepacked boxes and furniture, you can purge yourself as it comes out of closets or drawers....but takes more time and commitment. We got a lot of purging done before the last move ...not enough but it was a start. Need to do it again....just had some neighbors move in, 4 boys between 7 and 13 or so, military so practiced at the art of moving and joked to them 4 or 5 days later if they had it all unpacked yet. The answer was yep...had it done in one day! Their target is unpacked, settled and boxes gone in 2 days so they overachieved this time.

 

[madison069]

Wish it was that quick as the military folks.

Tonight was fun, wife finally realized all of the furniture and stuff she has to keep isn’t going to fit in the other house. Unfortunately it’s late in the game so we will be purging when we start putting stuff in the house. Me personally am itching to purge the garage and get it organized as planned.

Tomorrow I got maybe half the area of the big great room staged and ready to load up on the trailer. Didn’t get to the kitchen cause wife was overwhelmed by her stuff in the computer room and I eventually had to break it down for her. Made piles of had to keep, throw away as it’s replaceable at the store, and donate. Lot of the stuff is stuff we held for the older girls so I need to help sort through it and condense it down some more once we can seat down at the other house and sort it.

Saturday is clean the yard and wash the outside of the house down while it’s 50-60°F and sunny. Sunday is going to be snowing as per forecast so it’s all indoor cleaning and touching up the house do photography.

 

[M.Brane]

We purged a lot of stuff when we did the next door move since space was very limited. Some of it I regret, but there was no other choice at the time. A lot of stuff we did bring on move 2 needs to go away, but it's safely stored ATM, and there are other more important things to deal with.

 

[SilverJimmy]

I wish I could do a real purge. A very good friend says I suffer from “Separation Anxiety” and that is why I hang on to things. I think it’s because as a child my family was very poor and we didn’t have a lot of “stuff” so like people who survived the Depression I can’t easily get rid of things that I might someday “need”! As I type this out I can see what the problem is, but that doesn’t change how I approach the problem. I’ll just build a bigger box. I’m thinking we might need GarageJournal Anonymous….

 

[Swanny1953]

Sterling, my wife gave me this for Christmas a couple of years ago. I have done my level best to live up to this!

 

[OutlawDrifter]

Sterling, my wife gave me this for Christmas a couple of years ago. I have done my level best to live up to this!

Gary...she gets it

 

[madison069]

Almost got the house empty. Just the kitchen mostly, random loose stuff, one closet, and some coats in another closet left to remove.

Tomorrow is a day of yard cleaning and move the rest of the stuff.

 

[madison069]

Yard was cleaned up, roughly 11 contractor bags of leaves and trash I found in the yard. One down side to the snow we got awhile back was the neighbor’s trash cans was blowed down and their trash blew across the neighborhood. Found more stuff to throw away and added to the trash pile for Tuesday.

Glad I gave the refuse team a sheetz gift card for a tip!

House didn’t get emptied so I’ll do my normal pack every thing and deal with it later. Probably toss a bunch of it in the trash tomorrow. We will see how it goes tomorrow.

 

[zanyad]

Good luck tomorrow!

 

[madison069]

House is cleaned and ready for photos.





Now to go back and go through the list of things that needs to be fixed. Tomorrow I got a photographer coming and Tuesday I have HVAC coming in to replace the flue for the boiler and water heater. Apparently the flue is rusted through in spots and needs to be replaced. Sadly they will have to make a hole in the drywall to access the flue pipe that goes into the chimney that’s in the wall. They will line the chimney and replace all of the flue pipe. I’ll repair the drywall after they are done.

 

[SilverJimmy]

Get it done and gone! Just imagine never having to go to that house ever again, what a great future!

 

[madison069]

In order for the hvac crew to install a new flue pipe for the boiler and water heater, they had to cut open the wall in the second floor bathroom.


After work I started repairing this wall and after 7 hours, the wall almost looks like it did before the work began.


The baseboard needs to be nailed still and a like caulk will finish it off. Glad that someone invented hot mud.

 

[zmotorsports]

Great job Cody. I'll bet you'll be glad to have this gone.

I admire your carpentry skills. My son has those as well and I am impressed with people who have that gene. My dad had it in droves and my son has it, but it skipped me. I "can" do carpentry when there is no other alternative, but I would much prefer to have a wrench in my hand, standing at the lathe or mill or under a welding helmet as opposed to nails and a hammer or sheetrock.

 

[madison069]

Great job Cody. I'll bet you'll be glad to have this gone.

I admire your carpentry skills. My son has those as well and I am impressed with people who have that gene. My dad had it in droves and my son has it, but it skipped me. I "can" do carpentry when there is no other alternative, but I would much prefer to have a wrench in my hand, standing at the lathe or mill or under a welding helmet as opposed to nails and a hammer or sheetrock.

Thanks!
It's a mixed feeling regarding the selling of the house. But I'm sure it's better for the future.

I never really got a formal training with carpentry work. I just started cutting and nailing stuff together and eventually kept trying new things and reading books and watching videos. My Grandpa was a general contractor and did it all, but I never did get to work with him.

Drywall is one of those tasks that I don't enjoy but can do it, just might take a little longer than a professional would take!

 

[madison069]

Removed the cameras, took my router out of the house, and touched up this area of the door frame that didn’t get painted due to the camera was there.



That pretty much puts the end on this chapter as the house was transferred to the new owners today at 8:00am.

Not going to lie as I have a lot of emotions about this whole thing, but it’s over now. Now it’s time to focus on the other house and garage from now on.

 

[SilverJimmy]

Cody, I know it’s always kinda bittersweet to have a change like this but I know I’ll be happy once we’re able to sell our old house and finally be done with it. Really looking forward to seeing how you get your new shop setup so you can start working in it, not on it!

 

[madison069]

Cody, I know it’s always kinda bittersweet to have a change like this but I know I’ll be happy once we’re able to sell our old house and finally be done with it. Really looking forward to seeing how you get your new shop setup so you can start working in it, not on it!

It is nice to have it sold. It’s such a unique home that I was a little concerned about it selling. After three offers we accepted the third one.

One big perk is now we are debt free. I paid everything off today, so there’s that sense of relief there.

 

[OutlawDrifter]

It is nice to have it sold. It’s such a unique home that I was a little concerned about it selling. After three offers we accepted the third one.

One big perk is now we are debt free. I paid everything off today, so there’s that sense of relief there.

Congrats Cody!

 

[madison069]

Congrats Cody!

Thanks!

 

[jblnut]

One big perk is now we are debt free. I paid everything off today, so there’s that sense of relief there.

I refrain from talking about finances with our “friend group” because our farm finance things are quite different than their in town finance things. A buddy mentioned they’d drop below $100k on their home loan (a house they’ve been in since 2010) and I said “that’s fantastic !!” and volunteered that we’d drop below $500k owed not counting the farm operating loan before the end of 2026. I got a “harrumph” as he got up and walked away. Sorry bud, things cost money and if you wanna make money you gotta spend money. You don’t have the money to spend well you gotta borrow it. You borrow it you gotta be able to pay it back. You wanna pay it back you have to work for it. So I mostly keep my mouth shut.

Good to see you’re down to one main property !! That’s bonkers exciting.

 

[madison069]

I refrain from talking about finances with our “friend group” because our farm finance things are quite different than their in town finance things. A buddy mentioned they’d drop below $100k on their home loan (a house they’ve been in since 2010) and I said “that’s fantastic !!” and volunteered that we’d drop below $500k owed not counting the farm operating loan before the end of 2026. I got a “harrumph” as he got up and walked away. Sorry bud, things cost money and if you wanna make money you gotta spend money. You don’t have the money to spend well you gotta borrow it. You borrow it you gotta be able to pay it back. You wanna pay it back you have to work for it. So I mostly keep my mouth shut.

Good to see you’re down to one main property !! That’s bonkers exciting.

Thanks!

Oh I know it’s different from business and personal finance. Oilfield has taught me that and for regular 8-5 job folks it’s overwhelming for them to think about how much money an oil field company owes the bank. But it’s a game that’s been played for years. Without borrowing that money there’s no way to expand the field that’s being explored, and in the end you hope it pays off.

My wife was in the mindset to pay things off sooner so when we got the mortgage for the second house, she wanted to pay it off sooner. We took a 15 years mortgage but the following year we reduced the interest by reducing the mortgage to a 12 year’s mortgage plan. If we had kept the house we would have paid it off in 3 years from now cause we were paying a high payments and more toward the principal every month. So in the end we saved a lot of money by not having to pay so much interest.

One thing I always made sure of was we had enough money somewhere to pay the monthly bills for up to 6 months incase something happened, we always had a safety net. But if we had any extra income, it went into paying things off faster.

Finance is just a game to me, all of the numbers are just a puzzle or equation that if I do it right I get a positive results.

 

[gearhead1960]

Finance is just a game to me, all of the numbers are just a puzzle or equation that if I do it right I get a positive results.

It’s also a long game. From day 1, I continuously put money away into a variety of investments and did not concern myself with the ups and downs of the Stock Market. As I’ve enter the retirement stage of my life, being smart with Finances has paid off, including the real estate we were house poor with for many years. Being relatively debt free is a great feeling….congratulations!