Just for you Robyn...the uhaul story

Okay, so the comment about sticking all the stuff in a rubbermaid container brought this little memory to mind. I know you will get a kick out of it, so laugh all you want. I am tough!

I loved~ loved~ loved the show "clean sweep". It swept me off my feet from the get go. I watched every show with rapt attention, and it warmed my heart a little to know that there were in fact other people like me out there. I thought the premise of the show was fabulous. Get everything together and put it all in one spot, and sort, and purge, and kick!!! Oh, sorry. Got the aerobic vibe there. Anyway, I wanted to do this clean sweep approach. Only it was winter...and cold. No garage as we lived in a 4 bedroom trailer. It was filled to the hilt with kids, and beds, and stuff.

So, I had the BRIGHT idea to rent a uhaul. Stick it in the driveway for the weekend and fill it to the brim with all our junk and then sort, and purge and kick. And put away in a designated place. We dutifully filled box upon box with stuff. Got the uhaul. I am sure the entire neighborhood was saying "yes!!! The crazy family with all those kids are finally moving!!!" Little did they know.

Paid for the uhaul for 2 days. When we got it, we hadn't "finished" packing all the boxes, but no problem. We had the uhaul for 2 days. Finished filling boxes. Finished loading uhaul, or so we thought. Was so exhausted by the sheer effort of this ordeal, that we couldn't move the next day. We didn't want to waste the day though, so I just kept on packing MORE boxes. My husband thought we should start the sorting end of our plan, but I was exhilarated by the empty house. Wheeeee!!! There is so much space and room to ballet kick.

Needless to say, by the time it came to sort and purge and kick (tee hee), it was time to get the uhaul back. Can you believe that???!!!??? We wasted the entire 2 days loading boxes and loading a stupid uhaul. So, then we had to hurry up and UNLOAD the uhaul before we got charged another day. We were broke, so this wasn't an option.

So now, we had a house full of boxes and a neighborhood who was sad that we were staying!!! They just couldn't figure out why the uhaul was there if we didn't go anywhere! So sorry to have been decietful. It wasn't a very child friendly kind of place.

I never did get to sort and purge and kick because I was too sore, and overwhelmed, and needing to get things out of the boxes that we just had to use, so we just had to unpack everything and look at each other, and realize that we just wasted 100.00 and 2 days of our lives that we couldn't get back!!

It was good exercise, though. :)