Since the last tidying in the bomb shelter aka storeroom in end Nov, it didn’t take long that the inside turns messy again. Got back from Japan with more snacks and hubby bought more shampoo and shower gel that things get stacked up again. Sigh…… super tiring when I’m the only person clearing the mess.
Old posts :
Clearing bomb shelter, the initial step.
Basically things get piled up in the filled snack box. There’s now no access to the bed vacumn, it’s below somewhere. No other people help me tidying up, basically I'm the only person tidying up while they simply just dump whatever space they can find, which eventually led to them dumping things on the walkable space - to the even smaller walkable space until only one foot in and now only the toes. I'm not joking when I said it's really very tiring. They think their wife / mother is a superwoman is it?
15th Apr (Tue)
Checked a few companies websites and it seems all are pre-fabricated size.
1) Kastorack : $950 for customisation quoted me $950. Siao! Just for that extra 2-3cm extra width. And also communicating with them was quite frustrating. The longest pre-fab rack is 1050mm in length. I put simi sai. They kept evading telling me the price. When they finally said starting from $950 (Siao! Not like I'm fixing a gold shelf or what) I left the chat.
And seriously, if I had to removed everything from my bomb shelter, I’ll die! Nobody will help me. Really!
PG - were really quick with their response
Started formal communication with PG via WhatsApp. Going to give them the job. They didn't have to come down to do measurement so it was chop chop quick quick.
23rd Apr (Wed)
@ 12.31pm. Brought things out.
@ 12.40pm. Only this organized box is cleared
@ 1.08pm. Time to declutter the things again. I don't think I want my dictionaries anymore since I can use internet to check. Will ask che-che if she wants when she's home.
Hubby's bible and that's my travel book on Rome which I bought probably in 1997-8?
Tales of Alhambra is my book, I bought this in Alhambra. And I think I only read a few pages.
@ 1.52pm. Cleared to outside so that I can bring down the 3 shelves. The reason why I couldn't pull them all out coz it's extremely heavy and they were all screwed tight to one another. I did that to secure it way back in 2015 when we moved in.
I'm f-ing exhausted, frustrated, bodyache, arm pain especially when I need to avoid straining my left arm and shoulder. I really sound like I'm a 70yr-old old woman. If only I have people to help me and all I do is to sit with a fan and just direct them where to put and which to throw. Damn suay, I must have been a slave abuser my previous life
@ 2.44pm
F the mess, my family members better don't come and tell me they need their japanese snacks or what shit.
I put the items back temporarily as I didn't have enough space in the yard. Moreover the installation won't be dusty or need drilling at all.
The Collin's Movers Singapore paperbox belongs to hubby. He just moved this whole box from his home to Punggol to here. Box still sealed, don't even know what is inside. I didn't check when we did the move here in 2015 coz' don't forget that time I was handling everything on solo, if there is anything I can stall I will stall. He didn't want to check and clear, wanted to procrastinate. Please lah! Expect me to re-tidy the bomb shelter again next year meh?! Want to check, do it now. I had to repeat myself and then he finally decided to do it. It's all his HR notes and some other stuffs. He finally threw away some stuffs.
Before 25th April (Fri)
Removed one side of the shelf empty so that they can come by to do the installation. they need an empty space
25th Apr (Fri)
They came by at 11.06am to do PG rack installation. According to the guy, he told me our old one is Version 1 with bolt, there's another one coming up and "this is Version 2". Haha! I joked Version 3 is coming up.
@ 3.48pm
This box used to hold the paper plates, Halloween / Christmas n CNY decorations, I got rid of a lot of stuffs. Temporarily put some of the Method cleaning stuffs in here, I still have another box in the yard filled with Method stuffs too. I can't reach the box for the time being.
@ 4.52pm
Say I’m not a clutter-er I am lor! I still have hairbow making stuffs, my scrapbooking stuffs. Pity how I can’t start an interest coz I’ll end up keeping things. Should have a digital hobby.
Donated these to Salvation Army
I managed to sell a pathetic 4 pairs of bows in eBay then. Muahaha! 没有生意 . If that customer wanted to buy anymore from me also dunno how to reach me. Coz now I forgot my eBay account name and password.
I didn’t have time to update my hairbow selling blog, so still had the cheapo setup
@ 6.26pm. All categorized and put where I think I'll put.
26th Apr (Sat)
@ 3.57pm took this. Took a few measurements in the bomb shelter than start looking for boxes in internet with the measurements in hand.
@ 5.59pm in car. Items that I will donate (except for the white trolley, a default item in my car for days when I need to buy rice or washing detergent from supermarket). The yard is slightly cleaner coz the mess is in the car. Haha!
30th April (Wed)
Dropped by ikea to get boxes before picking lil’ one up. At the same time packed dinner from there. Like I always say "thankfully we have a yard". I left the boxes there until I get my energy back. I can chiong to do everything in one day.
2nd May (Fri)
Hubby went for his second month long trip. By the time he returns he will see a tidy bomb shelter.
@ 4.01pm. Right side of the third shelf with house cleaning and human cleaning items categorized separately
@ 5.42pm. Left side of the third shelf. The height of this rack is not the same as my original, I've asked them to help me put on same level but if there's no latch to slot the plank they can't do it. No choice, coz we did the shelves at different time. I wonder why hubby didn't do this U-shape shelf before?
Measuring again to find the suitable size boxes. Not a rushed project that I need to finish by a deadline, so I can leave these mess here until I find the box
@ 5.50pm - done and I’m so bloody hot. Stopping for now
Need to get boxes. The challenging part is always I need to find something to fit here as it's not a cutstomised shelf to fit my boxes. So all my boxes are of varied sizes.
@ 5.59pm - yard still messy. Luggage bag is out coz since we (my solo trip and the girls' siblings trip) need it soon I’m lazy to carry it back up. And coz I think I’m too over-zealous and put 2 bags into this green luggage. I couldn’t even carry it up 🤣
Mind you, during this Project Bomb Shelter I was also planning my holiday itinerary. And also the bor-liao-plonking photos into this blog, which will again be edited months later (it's August 25 now) and posted back to whatever the last date of this entry. And then mom kept asking me what am I busy with?
4th May (Sun)
@ 12.41am - ordered boxes through Citylife website paid $72.93 though said I saved $12.87
@ 5.05pm - they cancelled my order but I only read my messages 4 days later coz I hadn't been able to check my email regularly
Saw email why Citylife cancelled my order
8th May (Wed)
@ 7.58pm
Finally my boxes arrived. I had to order twice. First from the actual shop. Which is blessing coz the second time I ordered it was cheaper
@ 8.05pm - yard messy like shit. Still had to do housework, wash toys
10th May @ 12.34pm
@ 12.42pm
@ 12.47pm
14th May (Wed)
@ 2.01pm
@ 2.56pm.
The white shelf is removed plank by plank. So tired. Nails rusty so have to be careful I don’t injure myself. At least now yard is tidier, could have been better
15th May (Thu)
@ 5.47pm
DONE! Project Bomb Shelter is completed! Now I need to fully concentrate on planning my holiday itinerary
My family members better to start throwing things on the floor again just coz there's space now. I'm going to nag and scold them if they do that. I'm really very tired doing all these house things alone.
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