cleaners/ home collection

well, the finish line is so close i can taste it. the gardens are done...

the cleaners have been and the place looks immaculate

and we are good to go!

this is everything that is left. a bunch of bagged up clothing/ shoes and linen...

and some boxes of loose kitchen/ homeware items and tools. the tools and handy items are off to be donated to the mens shed and the rest will be collected by the good samaritan industries home collections. i still can't believe we have managed to get it all done, ready to hand the keys back to the owner this weekend.

it actually breaks my heart that this is all that is left of my in-laws. obviously we took all the sentimental items, the pictures, the momentos, jewellery and little things we and doug's sister wanted. but to be able to empty a home and have it all done in a month is insane. i feel bad, like it shouldn't have been this simple (believe me it was not easy) and that there should be so much more. but we have been careful and thoughtful - and this is it done.

kruger way garage sale

we had a garage sale today. i was dreading it and it was not an amazing experience, but it also wasn't horrible... i just hate people who want to haggle over already cheap prices. it does my head in. we did well though - a lot of the items went and we have less and less to get rid of ourselves.

we had a lot of things sell on marketplace - and even just from the photographs we had listed advertising the garage sale, which was good too, until i had people grumpy as we were moving things out of the garage as they arrived. oh i came to buy that! well, sorry - it's a garage sale. you could have just as easily messaged me on facebook too mate!

i was amazed more of the tools didn't sell, but we have decided to donate all of the leftovers to the ellenbrook mens shed. i emailed and received the most lovely response from their group. i know steve would be happy knowing they are going to a good cause.

because we haven't long come out of lockdown and masks are still required, we didn't have the best turnout either, but any sales are better than nothing.

the bike went immediately and was collected later that morning.

and right as we had given up and had decided to pack away and give up, a couple turned up in a van and bought all the remaining furniture! admittedly they wanted to pay a lot less than we had it listed for, but considering it was sell it cheap or give it away? it was an easy choice.

it's hilarious as the exact same thing happened at steve and oli's garage sale when they were moving from queensland to here - it was like they were saying "don't worry guys, we've got this!" i honestly couldn't believe it, what a coincidence!

one more thing down - we are almost there!

almost there!

we are getting there - in fact we are almost there! the items in the house are all packed and sorted ahead of a garage sale this weekend, the home collection and cleaners are booked... i said to doug's sister i just couldn't bear having to clean the house for the end of lease on top of everything else and she agreed completely.

doug and i have been hard at work cleaning up the outside, sweeping, weeding, removing spiders webs and then as a complete fluke - there happened to be a lawn mower man three houses up when i was finishing one of our million jobs at the house. i raced up the street and asked him if he had time to do our little patch as well which he readily agreed to. score! super nice bloke and one more thing to cross off the list.

this little monkey has been dragged back and forth for weeks and has barely complained. as soon as we moved the television to our house, we took our little portable dvd player over there and he would alternate between following me about and "helping" and watching whatever movie was the flavour of the week. i have truly been lucky though as he's been pretty amazing. 

almost there!