Hello from the other side
We have moved!
Well, 95% at least. Since we haven't fully cleaned out the other apartment and sold off the stuff we don't need, I don't consider us FULLY moved as of yet. There are rags, cleaning supplies, trash bags and some random empty boxes still lying around, and I don't really like it when a task is half completed, but it's also nice to take our time and move in stages. After all, we ARE paying another 2 weeks' lease, so we might as well make full use of it. =P
Praise God for friends! On moving day, Soe offered her husband, Thomas, to help with the heavy items so I didn't have to move them. What a blessing! Also, I'm thankful that JW didn't throw his back again from lifting the heavy stuff. Nevertheless, moving is no tiny endeavor. Even with the help we got, three days later, I'm still feeling the side effects of moving which include (but are not limited to)general lethargy and apathy. =P Planning, packing, unpacking, rearranging, putting up stuff, troubleshooting for mobility...Efficiency requires a hefty down payment of time, but it'll pay off later. At least, that's what I tell myself. =P
Right now, I'm trying to sell off some stuff that we can't fit into our apartment (because our living space shrank by almost 300 sq ft), and I'm also trying to sell off some of Jia Wern's textbooks. I found this really useful website online that helps to compare book resale values from different retailers to help you get the best bargain. All you have to do is key in the ISBN and the website will scout for the prices. Shipping fees are usually provided for by the companies that want to buy your books, so that's not an issue. The issue is finding suitable boxes and shipping materials to pack the books in. This is my first time doing it so I'm not really sure whether it'll be successful, but if all works out well, we'll get some extra cash (AND space)! So if you have the time to spare, try it out - textbooks can fetch quite a bit so it might be worth your time.
On the topic of saving cash, I found another website the other day that helped us to get passport-sized photos for really, really cheap. JW and I needed 3 Malaysian passport size photos each for our passport renewal applications. Apparently, American passport photos can cost up to $10.99 EACH at CVS, so a cheaper option is to take your own photo, find someone to edit them for you (in my case, Rene whitened the background and erased all my baby hair) and then use THIS other website to generate your passport photo according to the requirements. You just select the passport nationality (they have the measurements in their database) and the website will fit as many photos as it can into one 4"x 6" print. Then you go to your nearest pharmacy and print them out for like, $0.29 per print! We got 8 tiny photos in each print, and we had one print per person, so the grand total came up to $0.58. MUCH better than $60.
I still have no idea what to do with the 10 leftover photos. xD
(Disclaimer: My passport renewal application hasn't been fully processed yet, so I'm not sure this is a viable option. But hey, no harm trying. It was either $0.58 or $60, so...)
Well, 95% at least. Since we haven't fully cleaned out the other apartment and sold off the stuff we don't need, I don't consider us FULLY moved as of yet. There are rags, cleaning supplies, trash bags and some random empty boxes still lying around, and I don't really like it when a task is half completed, but it's also nice to take our time and move in stages. After all, we ARE paying another 2 weeks' lease, so we might as well make full use of it. =P
Praise God for friends! On moving day, Soe offered her husband, Thomas, to help with the heavy items so I didn't have to move them. What a blessing! Also, I'm thankful that JW didn't throw his back again from lifting the heavy stuff. Nevertheless, moving is no tiny endeavor. Even with the help we got, three days later, I'm still feeling the side effects of moving which include (but are not limited to)general lethargy and apathy. =P Planning, packing, unpacking, rearranging, putting up stuff, troubleshooting for mobility...Efficiency requires a hefty down payment of time, but it'll pay off later. At least, that's what I tell myself. =P
Right now, I'm trying to sell off some stuff that we can't fit into our apartment (because our living space shrank by almost 300 sq ft), and I'm also trying to sell off some of Jia Wern's textbooks. I found this really useful website online that helps to compare book resale values from different retailers to help you get the best bargain. All you have to do is key in the ISBN and the website will scout for the prices. Shipping fees are usually provided for by the companies that want to buy your books, so that's not an issue. The issue is finding suitable boxes and shipping materials to pack the books in. This is my first time doing it so I'm not really sure whether it'll be successful, but if all works out well, we'll get some extra cash (AND space)! So if you have the time to spare, try it out - textbooks can fetch quite a bit so it might be worth your time.
On the topic of saving cash, I found another website the other day that helped us to get passport-sized photos for really, really cheap. JW and I needed 3 Malaysian passport size photos each for our passport renewal applications. Apparently, American passport photos can cost up to $10.99 EACH at CVS, so a cheaper option is to take your own photo, find someone to edit them for you (in my case, Rene whitened the background and erased all my baby hair) and then use THIS other website to generate your passport photo according to the requirements. You just select the passport nationality (they have the measurements in their database) and the website will fit as many photos as it can into one 4"x 6" print. Then you go to your nearest pharmacy and print them out for like, $0.29 per print! We got 8 tiny photos in each print, and we had one print per person, so the grand total came up to $0.58. MUCH better than $60.
I still have no idea what to do with the 10 leftover photos. xD
(Disclaimer: My passport renewal application hasn't been fully processed yet, so I'm not sure this is a viable option. But hey, no harm trying. It was either $0.58 or $60, so...)
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