Year: 2019

Mid morning, after yesterday’s light dusting of snow had melted, we stuffed the back of the Mini with a couple hundred dollars worth of stuff we bought over the last week and drove over to our new home. These were things that we needed because we donated or left behind their predecessors back in Aiken (microwave, toaster and a Keurig.) There were also some things that we will need to occupy our empty home until our household shipment arrives after the first of the year in there too (towels, sheets, a blow up mattress, and some cheap silverware and plates.)

We brought over with us a take and bake pizza from Papa Murphy’s and ate lunch in our empty living room. When we came back “home” after to the AirBnB we ordered a new washer and dryer from Home Depot. Because we are a rural area they have none in stock, everything has to be ordered, so those won’t be here until after Christmas. Tomorrow we will go buy a 40″ TV to place over the fireplace because our existing 50″ one is too big. That one will stay downstairs in the “bonus” room with the futon for watching while washing clothes because the laundry room is on that level.

We’ll be probably go over for a couple hours each of the next three days farting around and will start sleeping there either Wednesday or Thursday night. We have to be out of the AirBnB by Friday morning at 11:00 AM.

I spent most of yesterday changing the utilities of our new house into our name. Water comes from the city and trash pickup is supplied by Waste Management (in Aiken both these came from the city.) Then there was electricity from Pacific Power and natural gas from Avista (in Aiken both these came from Dominion.) Today we signed up for cable.

What all these places had in common was that they never asked for proof that in fact I was moving into this particular house. This got me thinking of a really evil dirty trick to pull on somebody. It might cost a bit, so to reduce your investment pick one that does not require a deposit, and sign up for it in your name. Make sure to sign up for paperless billing and then when the first bill comes, pay it. Wait a week and set a date to shut off service. The current occupants probably wouldn’t notice the missing bill, but they sure would notice when the water stops flowing or the lights go off.

I am totally not recommending this. For one it would be pretty easy to figure out who did it because all these places ask for a drivers license or social security number for ID. Anyway, I just thought it was odd that no one asked for some sort of proof I lived there…

After being told, with the holidays and all, we would be lucky to get into our new Klamath Falls home by January 10th, we learned last night we can be in the place this coming Sunday. The closing isn’t actually until next Friday or at the latest Monday the 23rd, but we are paying 8 days of rent to the seller, to get into it on the 15th.

First thing this morning I notified both the Mayflower movers and the car shippers that it was time to send us our stuff. Dash Auto Logistics was first to respond and the Miata could be here the day after Christmas Day. Not long after that, the movers got back to us, our household goods won’t even be loaded onto the truck in Augusta until the day after Christmas. So we might end up with a convertible that won’t be usable for another 3 months and be waiting an extra week and a half for our pots and pans, couch, TV and bed.

That’s of course the worse case scenario. With the car pickup date and travel time ranges and the household goods travel time range they could actually get here only two days apart, December 30th and January 2nd respectively. It is winter and and we are in the Cascades, so weather might be a factor here as well.