Is actually happening.
We’re moving to Denver. And we’re SO FREAKIN EXCITED.
We have given our landlord our 30 days, and we’ll be leaving before that time is up. He wants to give us until September 15th to vacate, but we most likely will not wait that long.
Instead of having to move all of our extremely huge and heavy furniture, we are attempting to sell it all on Craigslist. We are planning to sell the following:
- Our bedroom suite
- Living room furniture
- TV
- Both of my desks
- Wingback chairs in entry room
- Oak table in entry room
- Patio furniture
- Grill
- Kitchen table
The stuff with lines through it has been sold already. And we put the ads up yesterday. This is nothing compared to how quickly we sold Eddie’s Ford Taurus, which has to be some sort of record. He hit “Publish” for the ad, and within 3 minutes had 1 phone call about it, while he was talking to that guy 2 more people called about it. Two of the three people immediately told him they were on their way with cash in hand.
Total whiplash at how fast it happened. Within like 1 hour it was gone.
We have some people coming over in the morning to look at my desks to see if they want them, one of our friends wants the coffee table, which we’ll sell to him if no one wants the complete set of living room furniture.
We paid GOOD money for all of our stuff, so we’re not going to take just whatever people want to give us for it. If we don’t get the asking price, then we’re just going to take it with us. But as fast as some of the stuff has sold, we’re not too terribly concerned about selling the other stuff in the month or so until we leave.
I’m kind of sad to see the big stuff go, cause I mean…it’s OUR STUFF. It’s the first big furniture we picked out and bought together. But, it’s also enormous. I don’t want to have to live in this huge place just because that’s the only way all of our furniture will fit. We bought the bedroom suite to fit the bedroom in the first house we lived in here in Vegas. That bedroom was GIGANTIC. So, in turn, the furniture is huge as well. So, we would rather downsize and be able to live in a smaller place for awhile, save money on rent, pay bills off, and THEN buy furniture again.
A lot of people on Facebook have asked me why we chose Denver. We went to a website called findyourspot.com, which asked about 80-100 questions about different things: what climate you would like, the “art scene” you’d want, just many various questions. Denver was one of the places it spit out, others being Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Salt Lake City, etc. We did some research online and chose Denver. It just seems like an US place. An Amanda and Eddie Place. We’re so excited to get there and get settled.
We have big plans about starting to get exercise. I’m only 29. I shouldn’t get winded when I’m making the bed and talking at the same time. That’s ridiculous, and horrible for my health. Eddie has heart disease in his family, and I would like to keep him around for a while. We’re going to start taking walks (Denver is supposed to be very walkable), eventually start running, we’re gonna buy bikes and go bike riding. I want to lose weight by exercising, not by starving myself because that’s the only way I know how to lose weight.
I’m just so excited about the prospect of it not being over 100 degrees for months at a time. According to the City-Data.com message boards, it gets REALLY HOT sometimes in Denver. A whole 90 degrees. Psssssh. That’s not hot. Try walking out of your house and feel like not only have you walked into an oven, but you’re also blowing a hot hair dryer in your face.
Eddie asked me today if I was going to miss Vegas. Sure, there’s things I’ll miss…I’ll miss being able to go to the Strip if we want. I’ll miss being able to go to boxing matches. I’ll miss some of the people we’ve met here. But I won’t miss the weather, the rude people, how expensive everything is.
I’m going to get to move to another brand new place with my best friend. How much better can life get?
