Scott and I still have a lot of final touches on the condo. (Painting the kitchen for one. Touching up the ceilings for two. And putting on the molding for three.) But we reached a milestone this weekend by taking a load of construction debris to the dump. And, even though we don’t have any shelves in our closets (that’s four), we retrieved all of our stuff that had been stored friend’s attics and sheds. We rented a Zipcar for 24 hours in order to get everything done.
Have you ever been to the dump? It is weird. Technically we were at a “transfer station” in Renton, and not the full on dump. We pulled our car up to the window (no line) and they weighed our car. Then we pulled forward and unloaded our stuff directly into the trailer of a big truck. The truck was underneath the platform where you unload the stuff, so you are literally throwing stuff into a big hole. I should have taken a picture. It felt really weird… Kind of like we were getting away with something. After unloading, our car was weighed again and we paid based on the unloaded weight. It came to something like $17. Not bad.
Have you ever had Christmas in August, without actually buying any gifts? Opening all of our boxes today was a treat. We didn’t have as much junk as I had expected. I found an entire suitcase full of shoes!! And none of my pants fit. So great.
