I have hinted a few times that we are about to embark on some renovations. Well the builder is keen to start next Wednesday, which means we only have this weekend to clear out and store everything from the downstairs living areas. And Mr BG is still in agony with his back so he is not going to be any use. Anybody free this weekend? Pretty please with cherries on top?
Oh how egg-citing……… I’d help but I’m too far away….
Lucky1 said:
Oh how egg-citing……… I’d help but I’m too far away….
Same here…but I am off to Sydney this arvo and Canberra tomorrow
AnneS said:
Lucky1 said:
Oh how egg-citing……… I’d help but I’m too far away….
Same here…but I am off to Sydney this arvo and Canberra tomorrow
Wow…… busy lady:) Your arms will be tired after all that flapping….lol
Lucky1 said:
AnneS said:
Lucky1 said:
Oh how egg-citing……… I’d help but I’m too far away….
Same here…but I am off to Sydney this arvo and Canberra tomorrow
Wow…… busy lady:) Your arms will be tired after all that flapping….lol
lol. Going to a funeral in Canberra tomorrow…going with my daughter and granddaughter so staying with them tonight. Daughter and I are supposed to be going to a Girl Guides event at Nth Turramurra (one of the northern Sydney suburbs) on Sat arvo. Not sure if we will get back in time for that though
bluegreen said:
I have hinted a few times that we are about to embark on some renovations. Well the builder is keen to start next Wednesday, which means we only have this weekend to clear out and store everything from the downstairs living areas. And Mr BG is still in agony with his back so he is not going to be any use. Anybody free this weekend? Pretty please with cherries on top?
If you pay my air fare.
Bubba Louie said:
bluegreen said:
I have hinted a few times that we are about to embark on some renovations. Well the builder is keen to start next Wednesday, which means we only have this weekend to clear out and store everything from the downstairs living areas. And Mr BG is still in agony with his back so he is not going to be any use. Anybody free this weekend? Pretty please with cherries on top?
If you pay my air fare.
actually I am considering paying someone to do it as the stress of it is going to be way too much otherwise. The storage is organised but we need help with the actual removal and delivery.
bluegreen said:
actually I am considering paying someone to do it as the stress of it is going to be way too much otherwise. The storage is organised but we need help with the actual removal and delivery.
Sounds like that might be worth the money this time, what with Mr BG out of action… I think too often people concentrate on saving money without thinking about the value of the stress etc that you go through if you don’t pay someone to help..
Bubba Louie said:
bluegreen said:
I have hinted a few times that we are about to embark on some renovations. Well the builder is keen to start next Wednesday, which means we only have this weekend to clear out and store everything from the downstairs living areas. And Mr BG is still in agony with his back so he is not going to be any use. Anybody free this weekend? Pretty please with cherries on top?
If you pay my air fare.
yep u pay ill be fine, i could be a sleep most of the time.
bluegreen said:
actually I am considering paying someone to do it as the stress of it is going to be way too much otherwise.
Sounds a bit like me and eldest son’s 21st. It’s not till July but I’m seriously thinking caterers.
Bubba Louie said:
bluegreen said:
actually I am considering paying someone to do it as the stress of it is going to be way too much otherwise.Sounds a bit like me and eldest son’s 21st. It’s not till July but I’m seriously thinking caterers.
Caterers every time for a 21st Bubba…we’re having ours in BrisVegas at an undisclosed community club…our main concern is security… but I believe the birthday girl and friends are bringing cupcakes (patty cakes)…just booked the venue yesterday and the party is Q B’day weekend… a friend is having hers on Saturday so ours will be the “Recovery”!!
Sorry BlueGreen… I wish I could help…have you tried Thee’s forum?
Dinetta said:
Sorry BlueGreen… I wish I could help…have you tried Thee’s forum?
not yet, I wasn’t being entirely serious :)
bluegreen said:
Dinetta said:
Sorry BlueGreen… I wish I could help…have you tried Thee’s forum?
not yet, I wasn’t being entirely serious :)
:P
:D
Dinetta said:
Bubba Louie said:
bluegreen said:
actually I am considering paying someone to do it as the stress of it is going to be way too much otherwise.Sounds a bit like me and eldest son’s 21st. It’s not till July but I’m seriously thinking caterers.
Caterers every time for a 21st Bubba…we’re having ours in BrisVegas at an undisclosed community club…our main concern is security… but I believe the birthday girl and friends are bringing cupcakes (patty cakes)…just booked the venue yesterday and the party is Q B’day weekend… a friend is having hers on Saturday so ours will be the “Recovery”!!
I think this one will be at home, but it wont be very big.
I think this one will be at home, but it wont be very big.
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Don’t tell the kids on My Space. Twitter or Face Book………. you’ll have every kids and their dog there….
Lucky1 said:
I think this one will be at home, but it wont be very big.
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Don’t tell the kids on My Space. Twitter or Face Book………. you’ll have every kids and their dog there….
Geez I hope not…we are on strict numbers…might mention to daughter so she can check with club about how to screen non-inviteds…
We wanted it at the race track but she breaks out in hives at the mention of the word “race track”…you can hire a gazebo or similar…spend nearly all the day there…the gentlemen have something to “do” (punt)…plus it’s very secure…pretty hard to gate-crash a race track…
oI YOU WAS TO RING ME TONITS RE BIN !!!!!!!
I AM SUPERWOMAN!!
Well at least for one day. What with seeing builders, arranging storage for furntiture, running pets to the vet and husbands to the doctors, paying bills and filling out loan application forms, I STILL mamaged to cook dinner at the end of it! I am stuffed!
still waiting to hear back from Joffie, Thee.
bluegreen said:
I AM SUPERWOMAN!!Well at least for one day. What with seeing builders, arranging storage for furntiture, running pets to the vet and husbands to the doctors, paying bills and filling out loan application forms, I STILL mamaged to cook dinner at the end of it! I am stuffed!
still waiting to hear back from Joffie, Thee.
Oh I can remember days like that…..sigh…back eons ago…..
Lucky1 said:
bluegreen said:
I AM SUPERWOMAN!!Well at least for one day. What with seeing builders, arranging storage for furntiture, running pets to the vet and husbands to the doctors, paying bills and filling out loan application forms, I STILL mamaged to cook dinner at the end of it! I am stuffed!
still waiting to hear back from Joffie, Thee.
Oh I can remember days like that…..sigh…back eons ago…..
this is highly unusual, and I expect to collapse in a heap any moment! It is just sheer desperation and need that is keeping me going…
bluegreen said:
Lucky1 said:
bluegreen said:
I AM SUPERWOMAN!!Well at least for one day. What with seeing builders, arranging storage for furntiture, running pets to the vet and husbands to the doctors, paying bills and filling out loan application forms, I STILL mamaged to cook dinner at the end of it! I am stuffed!
still waiting to hear back from Joffie, Thee.
Oh I can remember days like that…..sigh…back eons ago…..
this is highly unusual, and I expect to collapse in a heap any moment! It is just sheer desperation and need that is keeping me going…
Don’t over do it BG………:)
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
The Estate said:
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
We have a house that is empty in our street…….. OMG you should see the skip bin the people are using to clean the mess up with…. Elf thinks the people did a midnight flit….its a huge walk in bin the size of a small truck …..flipp’n huge.
Lucky1 said:
The Estate said:
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
We have a house that is empty in our street…….. OMG you should see the skip bin the people are using to clean the mess up with…. Elf thinks the people did a midnight flit….its a huge walk in bin the size of a small truck …..flipp’n huge.
sounds like a 12 or 15 cubic metre one lucky, better go see later on, might be treasures in there ????
The Estate said:
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
he ended out putting it the driveway, but that’s OK. They asked Mr BG where he wanted it and I hadn’t thought to tell him!
Removalist is booked for Monday afternoon after we have boxed up all the small items on the weekend.
mumbles mantra
This is going to happen, there is no reason to stress, it is under control, the end result is going to be FAB TAB!
The Estate said:
Lucky1 said:
The Estate said:
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
We have a house that is empty in our street…….. OMG you should see the skip bin the people are using to clean the mess up with…. Elf thinks the people did a midnight flit….its a huge walk in bin the size of a small truck …..flipp’n huge.
sounds like a 12 or 15 cubic metre one lucky, better go see later on, might be treasures in there ????
friends of ours used to have a cleaning business and they did contract work for Real Estate agents cleaning out houses and units between rentals. They used to find quite a lot of good and sometime valuable stuff which they were allowed to keep. All the agents wanted is the placed to be cleaned out and they were mostly used after people did a runner so there was no way of contacting them.
The Estate said:
Lucky1 said:
The Estate said:
Well at least the bin has arrived on time LOL, I would be expecting it to be full on Monday !!!
We have a house that is empty in our street…….. OMG you should see the skip bin the people are using to clean the mess up with…. Elf thinks the people did a midnight flit….its a huge walk in bin the size of a small truck …..flipp’n huge.
sounds like a 12 or 15 cubic metre one lucky, better go see later on, might be treasures in there ????
Naa…. wouldn’t touch anything from that place:( eeewwww
Lucky1 said:
The Estate said:
Lucky1 said:We have a house that is empty in our street…….. OMG you should see the skip bin the people are using to clean the mess up with…. Elf thinks the people did a midnight flit….its a huge walk in bin the size of a small truck …..flipp’n huge.
sounds like a 12 or 15 cubic metre one lucky, better go see later on, might be treasures in there ????
Naa…. wouldn’t touch anything from that place:( eeewwww
Okies enough said, I get the picture ROFL, I say ewwwwwwwwwww to LOL
taking a break. it’s one of those situations where it gets worse before it gets better, but it is starting to make sense again so that’s good!
bluegreen said:
taking a break. it’s one of those situations where it gets worse before it gets better, but it is starting to make sense again so that’s good!
I hear you BlueGreen…glad there’s been no major dramas…
it’s moments like these that you realise how much JUNK you have. good job we have the rubbish skip already….
The big thing is to recognise it as JUNK…
oh my poor back! but we have done heaps! I was going to take just the afternoon off tomorrow to be here for the removalists, but there are still a few odd jobs to be done before we are ready for them so I am going to take the whole day off.
bluegreen said:
oh my poor back! but we have done heaps! I was going to take just the afternoon off tomorrow to be here for the removalists, but there are still a few odd jobs to be done before we are ready for them so I am going to take the whole day off.
you’d better have a herbal bath – soak that sore back.
groan
I never want to pack another box again! The lounge and family rooms are now empty of furniture and chattels and ready for the builders to come and do their bit. The 6m^2^ skip is 3/4 full from rubbish and the carpet we ripped out of #1 sons old room. We are now using his room as a mini lounge room but because he used to share it with a ferret it stank! So the carpet, the main offender, had to go. So imagine a not particularly large bedroom with a single bed, a settee, a TV, a bookshelf, a cat, a budgie, 2 rats and 3 people and you will have a very cosy room. The cat will be going on a holiday tomorrow though so he won’t have to suffer the distress of all the changes going on.
And you wouldn’t believe what you can pack into a 2×3 meter storage unit! It was tight but they did it! Not an whisker of space left! It was a bit close there for a while and it looked like I was going to have to take some stuff home with me. Imagine one of those 3 dimensional puzzles where you slot a piece in here, twisted it so many degrees this way, give a little push one direction and it falls into place in another. It was just like that.
very cosy
- how long will the building contract last?
pepe said:
very cosy
- how long will the building contract last?
they have a deadline of 10 July. That gives us two weekends to get all back inside and in order before my birthday.
bluegreen said:
pepe said:
very cosy
- how long will the building contract last?
they have a deadline of 10 July. That gives us two weekends to get all back inside and in order before my birthday.
I hope you arn’t overdoing it BG.
Don’t forget the pics! we lerve before and after pics lol
Happy Potter said:
bluegreen said:
pepe said:
very cosy
- how long will the building contract last?
they have a deadline of 10 July. That gives us two weekends to get all back inside and in order before my birthday.
I hope you arn’t overdoing it BG.
Don’t forget the pics! we lerve before and after pics lol
haen’t had time to take pics! hopefully I will get some of the empty rooms tonight.
Did Joffa start today ?????
The Estate said:
Did Joffa start today ?????
sure did :)
has ripped out some walls and the carpet
bluegreen said:
The Estate said:
Did Joffa start today ?????
sure did :)
has ripped out some walls and the carpet
woohoo