{"id":19761,"date":"2013-05-20T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T02:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=19761"},"modified":"2013-05-20T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T02:46:16","slug":"unpack-a-thon-1-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=19761","title":{"rendered":"Unpack-a-thon #1 Results"},"content":{"rendered":"

I did it! I devoted 9 hours to unpacking last weekend. I unpacked 32 boxes and 13 bags.<\/p>\n

I still have a loooooong way to go!<\/p>\n

However, it dawned on me that I can do another Unpack-a-thon on Memorial Day weekend. The following weekend, I want to do the 48-Hour Book Challenge. The weekend after that, I won’t have a weekend because I traded Fridays so that the weekend after that I can have my birthday off. So I hope I’ll make good headway on Memorial Day weekend.<\/p>\n

And it’s already nice to have room to walk around in my kitchen! And to have found some things that were missing.<\/p>\n

I ended up, except for the last hour, rotating between the rooms I was working in, starting each hour in the kitchen. So here’s how it went:<\/p>\n

In the kitchen, I unpacked 7 boxes and 7 bags. Here was the before picture:<\/p>\n

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And here is the After picture:<\/p>\n

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Of course, the main kitchen is a galley kitchen, and I didn’t picture the boxes on shelves, or the four boxes still stacked right outside it. But good progress was made!<\/p>\n

Next, each hour I worked on unpacking games, which went in my son’s closet. That is, until the last hour, when I focused on only that, and FINISHED the task! Woo-hoo! All games are stored, besides the ones I brought to the library for our monthly “Brain Games at the Library” program. That program is now well-stocked!<\/p>\n

This involved unpacking 10 boxes. Here were some of them Before:<\/p>\n

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And the entryway is much clearer After:<\/p>\n

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Next on the list was the Living Room. I unpacked 10 boxes, mostly books, and 2 bags. They mostly went on my biggest bookcase:<\/p>\n

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Then I worked on my Office. I unpacked 5 boxes in that room, including some books:<\/p>\n

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Last in the rotation was the Master Bedroom. I only finished unpacking 4 bags from it. These took a bit longer, since I got rid of a sweater chest that had a broken drawer, and I’m trying to figure out where to put everything. Progress was made, but not worth photographing.<\/p>\n

Anyway, my theory is that, knowing I’ll be doing lots more next weekend, I can get back to blogging and posting reviews during the week.<\/p>\n

I am finding that driving just a bit farther in stop-and-go traffic instead of a freeway *really* makes me sleepy. I was hoping stopping the migraine preventative I’d been trying would clear that up, and maybe it still will, but all that is to say tonight I laid in bed for an hour after I got home, and then I had some bills to pay. (I made my *first* mortgage payment! What a big girl I am!) So — I hope to start posting reviews again *tomorrow*!<\/p>\n

But it was nice to come home to a little bit less clutter of boxes. And remember that I really am happy with my new home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I did it! I devoted 9 hours to unpacking last weekend. I unpacked 32 boxes and 13 bags. I still have a loooooong way to go! However, it dawned on me that I can do another Unpack-a-thon on Memorial Day weekend. The following weekend, I want to do the 48-Hour Book Challenge. The weekend after […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}