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Our stuff is now off the truck and in the new apartment. There are too many boxes, to the point where we won't be able to pursue the original plan of culling and alphabetizing books as we unpack. Some of the "too many boxes" is that the packers used a lot of paper around some of the stuff, but I suspect the book boxes are entirely full of books.
My desk didn't survive the move (we thought it might not—it was 20 years old and made of particleboard), and the armoire was damaged. That should be repairable iff Ikea still makes that model and the part is available, but in the meantime it is lying on its side, making the bedroom seem more crowded, rather than being a place I can unpack clothes into. However, my dresser (which has sentimental value as well as being useful) and the nested Pyrex bowls (ditto) survived, and those would have been a lot harder to replace.
We are also going to have to throw away a variety of stuff that we either didn't get the chance to sort through, or that the packers put in boxes or on the truck before we could say "no, leave that." (The annoyance there is a broken table that I did explicitly tell them not to pack.) There are other bits of furniture we may conclude we don't need (or don't have room for), but couldn't know that until we got here and started arranging things.
My desk didn't survive the move (we thought it might not—it was 20 years old and made of particleboard), and the armoire was damaged. That should be repairable iff Ikea still makes that model and the part is available, but in the meantime it is lying on its side, making the bedroom seem more crowded, rather than being a place I can unpack clothes into. However, my dresser (which has sentimental value as well as being useful) and the nested Pyrex bowls (ditto) survived, and those would have been a lot harder to replace.
We are also going to have to throw away a variety of stuff that we either didn't get the chance to sort through, or that the packers put in boxes or on the truck before we could say "no, leave that." (The annoyance there is a broken table that I did explicitly tell them not to pack.) There are other bits of furniture we may conclude we don't need (or don't have room for), but couldn't know that until we got here and started arranging things.
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