A Packing Whirlwind

What a day it has been. I'm still packing numerous boxes and every so often I find an accessory of Evan's 8 million things to do with the Marine Corps. I've finally just got together everything and thrown it into a shoe box. You can tell I didn't organize that stuff! If I did organize it, he would have everything he needed in Pensacola. Hmm. Go figure.

I've also been feeling quite silly packing up things that are fragile. For instance, I packed up our glasses (cups) and I used our dish towels and plastic bags to protect them! Hopefully that works. Improvise, adapt, and overcome? Yeah I think so!!! hahaha.

Then, I get to the canisters on our kitchen counter and think, hmmm does brown sugar and/or flour go bad? I came to the conclusion that I didn't think so and just packed them away instead of throwing the contents away. Yes, this is me, I'm the keep-everything-it-might-come-in-handy-cheap-person! My husband gets so mad. It's like, Jess, it is only $2, throw it away and we'll get some later. Nah, babe, I'll just keep it! That $2 will add up some day!

On that same topic of keeping everything...I've kept most of the boxes we had from random stuff. For example, when we moved here, my father-in-law helped us move and had lots of things shipped to us. What did I do?! I kept almost all of the boxes! I even collapsed quite a few of them so we could store them easier! I also kept 80% of the boxes that things came in. For example, I have these boxes; tupperware, george foreman, pots and pans, glassware, printer, etc. It makes my husband so mad that I've kept almost every practical box known to man, but hey, I figure we'd be moving a lot, so why not!?! And guess who was right?! This girl! Mmmhmm...Those boxes are coming in handy now!!! Ohhh, burn! HA! Oh and another thing I made my husband do...I saw a big bin (the big plastic ones with a lid) near the dumpster one day and this is how the conversation went;

Me: "Hey, I think we could use that!"

Him: "Then you're digging it out of the dumpster."

Me: "Just pick it up and take it upstairs."

Him: "Okay, fine, but I'm done with it after that."

Me: "Wait, let me see what it looks like inside."

-opening it up-

Me: "Ew, that's gross."

Him: "Okay it's going back in the trash!"

Me: "No no no! You can clean it out!"

Him: "Okay fine".

-takes it upstairs and throws it in the extra bedroom-

Now, you see, he was SUPPOSED to clean it out. Guess who didn't clean it out?! Yeah, he left it for ME to clean out. Go figure. So now it's in our bathtub waiting on me to come clean it out. Too bad we don't have a hose. Grrr. Maybe I could give the cat a bath in it?!?! Ha! Just kidding!

Welp, I have a mess of an apartment to get back to. Gotta turn my music up loud and dance around singing, errr, I mean packing! Have a lovely day!