Another Day of Cleaning

Today we concentrated on the junk in the living room. We spent 2 or 3 hours there and hauled out the majority of it. I won't discriminate and call the living room the dirtiest of the rooms but it has so far been the dustiest. Everything was covered in this filthy film of aged dust. And I mean everything, dust on the floor, dust coating the piles of garbage, thick, cakey layers of dust on the shelves. I wish I had taken a picture of just how thick this stuff was. My lungs are still heavy, filled with it. New lesson, wear a mask.

Garbage update: we've gone through the first box of trash bags. Each box contained 32 bags, so we've estimated that we've gotten about 35 bags of trash out. And these are the 42 gallon monster trash bags too. If I was a calculating man (which I'm not, because I'm actually a woman) that would be 1470 gallons of trash. Holy crap! And we aren't even done the first floor yet.

Sadly in the rubble we found a violin. It was in disrepair like everything else in the house. I couldn't stand throwing it away though. That violin should have been creating great things. Someone should have loved it. But it is gathering dust like so many broken toys.

We did however find a pleasant surprise in the living room. There was a faux wood burning stove under a bunch of piled up boxes. I looked at it a saw treasure. Tony, however, saw a time bomb. He spent a half an hour at least trying to figure out if it was hooked up, and if it was, was it done properly. Which I don't blame him for. After he brought it up I wondered too if the thing would explode on us. After a proper cleaning and inspection he discovered it was not hooked up at all. Which is good. We'll have to have someone professional install it. For right now we're leaving it in the corner. Its probably the only clean thing in the living room right now. The big junk is gone, but the dust remains. We still have to box up some books (we ran out of boxes) and pick up some small stuff, but the majority of it is done.

Before

After

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