The boys and I have to clean out the garage. The landlord is going to “finish” it and put in shelving & beautiful clean counters, plus a tankless water heater. Then we’re going to move in all her shit which she has in storage and reduce my rent saving me and HER money!
The house gets a needed improvement, she gets a cost needed for taxes on the rent I pay her, her business gets a cost reduction, and I get a little break on the rent. Plus I may be able to do some more of my work at home. Win/win/win!
So to get this processed started (in addition to the picking out cabinetry & emailing two contractors to bid on the job) I’ve been boxing up stuff from the garage so I can easily move it into the house. Since some of this stuff is the kids, I had to get them involved. Because I just don’t see a need for a box of ball pit balls! And the old train set.. do we really need to keep it?
Apparently we do! So I gave Evan the chore of sorting through it and taking out any broken pieces, removing pieces he’s no longer wanting to keep & transferring it all into another box. Which he did, keeping ALL the pieces! And then insisting we set it up.
Which I can’t resist cuz I love the set also! lol So we set it up Saturday and he and Conor had a fun day of playing with it on and off the whole weekend. I guess THAT piece of childhood is just never going to get old. And I think I’ll need to keep it forever as something to pass down one day to their kids.
Assuming I don’t just keep it at my house to play with!