I’m making progress. Really. Honest. Or at least I have to keep convincing myself of that.<\/p>\n
The property manager successfully rented out my place, a nice couple who signed a year lease. Not as much rent as I’d hoped for, but about what I expected.<\/p>\n
I confirmed the moving date of March 6th, a week from today. I have a plane ticket to New York City on March 7th, whereupon I will start doing a fast search for an apartment before my stuff makes it across the country.<\/p>\n
I shipped two more boxes of books to my parents this morning, and I think that’s finally it. A total of nine boxes went to my parents – mainly books, but also some old papers and things like that. Two more boxes of non-books are in storage at my sister’s.<\/p>\n
Six boxes of books are going with me. <\/p>\n
And even after fifteen boxes, I still had two full bookshelves worth of books that I was trying to get rid of. Friends took a bunch of them at the Bon Voyage party, I went to Moe’s Books<\/a> this morning, and they took a few more (mostly textbooks), and the rest will go to the Salvation Army later this week.<\/p>\n I sold my car yesterday to CarMax<\/a>. It was a nice hassle-free process, which I really appreciated. I showed up, somebody greeted me at the entrance, I said I was interested in getting my car appraised, and they put it in the queue to be appraised and I hung out in the waiting room for ~30 minutes. When it was appraised, they brought me to a cube, went through the valuation of the car, and gave their offer. No haggling. I decided to take it, gave them the appropriate paperwork, went back to the waiting room, and an hour later, I walked out of there with a check. Total time at the dealer was two hours. Very smooth process. I recommend them if you are willing to accept that you might not get every last dollar you could – I didn’t get a great price, but it was a fair price, and not having to stress about the paperwork and doing a credit check on any potential craigslist buyers was totally worth it to me. <\/p>\n I think I’ve actually gotten rid of most of my stuff at this point<\/a>. The car’s gone, I have a friend that will probably take the motorcycle riding gear, another friend who’s a physics grad student took most of my textbooks. The only major stuff left is my glass-topped furniture<\/a>, and I got two nibbles today off of craigslist, so hopefully one of them will work out.<\/p>\n