Getting closer to the move

[Bistem]

I will be moving probably around late September. Moving to my Grandmother's house which she lived in for around 40 years. It has been about 6 months of organizing her stuff for a big sale of the antiques. This woman grew up during the great depression and witnessed her mother going without food so the kids could eat and that affected her mentally and made her a hoarder. She could not force herself to throw anything away, even ketchup packets from a fast food place and plastic bags from the grocery store. We found drawers slam full of those plastic bags folded neatly and stacked in the drawers. There was food in the freezers from 1974.The Attic, WOW what a disaster. I think we pulled over 1000 empty canning jars out of the attic, most of them in cardboard boxes that were so old and deteriorated from the heat that they just fell apart in your hands.

Once I move in here, My collection will have it's own room that is attached to the house but is kind of it's own building meaning you have to go out onto the back patio to access the door to this room. I just dumped around $900 to an electrician yesterday to wire in more quad outlets into that room all on their own circuits. He also wired a new Mitsubishi mini split solely for that room. The Mini split was another $1800. Another $100 to a friend of mine that works in heating and air to come by and do the refrigerant lines tonight and the room will finally be ready. This dang hobby is costing me big time. These snakes better appreciate all of this LOL.

Anyone else been through things like this moving and preparing a space for your animals or did you just move them into a spare bedroom and gradually upgrade their accomodations?

[Wharf Rat]

Wow, I've been going through a very similar issue with my dad. He's got cancer so my wife and I moved back to Florida to be with him. We actually bought his house (he couldn't afford the mortgage) so we live there now, with him. He's a hoarder as well. Very bad. We've been with him a little over a year and we've managed to clear out the living area, but the third bedroom/office, which is ultimately going to be my snake room/den/man cave lol is full, like ceiling to floor, with garbage that he's not willing to part with. Hundreds of plastic grocery bags, used gift wrap, gift bags, empty cardboard boxes. The room is full! And it's the only place we really have to keep my snakes.

They are in there in their enclosures and they're fine. Two ball pythons and a jungle carpet. They're fine, BUT their enclosures are in really awkward spots surrounded by junk. I usually take so much pleasure in everything regarding my snakes, even mundane things like cage cleaning, freshening water, anything that gives me an excuse to be with them. But the mess in that room makes it a chore. And it's a constant reminder of his hoarding insanity lol it's extremely frustrating.

I totally understand what you've had to go through with the hoarding. When my dad showed me one of three pantrys stuffed with food/dry goods that are 5 years out of date I was horrified. And I had to really put my foot down to get him to let it all go. The most frustrating part of that was he hasn't been able to eat food for about 3 years due to the cancer. He has a feeding tube. Yes he still fought me on getting rid of the expired food. So frustrating!!!

Anyway, sorry for the rant on your post lol but yes...I know (somewhat) of when you're going through. And once you can access your reptile room it's going to be awesome I'm sure. I know I can't wait to transform mine from a junk heap into my dream reptile room.

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