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June 19, 2009
Agreement
Dave and I just had a very brief conversation in which we discussed the move and what furniture I would be taking to Chicago vs. what would be staying here.
Astonishingly, we were pretty much in agreement. Things I wanted but would never have asked for (like the couch) are coming with me. Woot! The couch is coming to Chicago with me! I'll have a living room with actual living room furninture in it! Dave--poor soul--will have a living room futon. I do want to clarify that he OFFERED the couch, I did not ask for it. I wasn't even going to suggest the couch come with me, I was going to leave it for him to enjoy. I even offered to leave it here once he'd broached the subject. But yay! It's coming with me!
And actually, we think we may be able to clean out the storage unit with this move. Stuff from there can come with me, and it can also fill the spaces I'll be emptying when I go. I'm pretty sure there's room in the dining room of the apartment for our lovely dining room table along with my desk. I'll need chairs there, Dave could use a couple more chairs here. I'll need a bedframe, which we have in storage, and if it's still good, the mattress and box spring that used to sit on it. The other bedframe, mattress and box spring can be set up here.
There will also be a bit of a reshuffling. Dave will move his office upstairs into my old office space, and his old office space will become a guest room for real. He'll also be able to move his clothes into the bedroom closet and the sheets staying here with him into the linen cupboard(s) in the hallway where my clothes now reside. The closets in my old office can hold the remaining stuff from storage that won't be coming with me. And then we won't have to worry about paying for that any more or about having to pay a moving company to make two pickups.
The only thing we didn't discuss is the kitchen gear. When do things like the Cuisinart and the knives and the pots and pans move to Chicago? As in, who gets to take what we have and who gets the new set we'll need to buy? We may have to rochambeau for that stuff.
Posted by sally at June 19, 2009 10:16 PM
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