And Then We Made the Basement Our Bitch

Today was victory.

While the basement is far from spotless I can officially declare it 'normal looking'. What I mean is it probably looks like your basement now (if it happens to be unfinished and you happen to have a basement) not the "dear God I think there may be missing children lost in this pit somewhere" basement. All the debris has been cleaned out. We still need to go through and organize the stuff neatly packed away on the shelves. The floors have been quadruple swept and we are mostly getting dust now (not large stuff like at first). They looked 150% better once swept. We still need to mop (many, many times), but, come on, how clean can a concrete floor basement get? Its still a massive achievement in my book.

I was happy that this little treasure is still in good condition: a treasure chest. The leather is dry rotted, but the wood and metal are fine. I was afraid it reached the floor, since everything on the floor was ruined by mold. There was also a freezer in the back which I am excited about. we can buy food in bulk and store it. Sure, the shelves are solid blocks of ice now, but its actually cleaner than the fridge upstairs.

Unfortunately there is another slight problem. The furnace has had a number done on it. Meaning there are parts hanging off it that we don't know what they do or if they are supposed to be plugged in. This is apparently the former residences full-assed job of replacing it. There is a black metal box that when turned on its side turned on and a hum came out of the furnace. What it did, I don't know. Should it be on or not? No idea. It started off and until we get someone in who knows what's happening with this Frankenstein of a furnace it'll stay off.

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