Big Fluffy Bedding

After the movers came, we spent one last night in the house.

Our good bed had been picked up by the movers, but we kept an older mattress and bedding, and in the morning that mattress and box spring was hauled away for junk, we cleaned the house, and then packed up the car to prepare for our trip west.

Good plan.

Until we found that with our suitcases, all our personal files, the cleaning supplies we still had and the immense amount of left over things that had to go in the car, there was no room for our bedding.

No matter how we stuffed that down quilt or squashed those pillows or micro-folded the sheets and blanket, there was simply no room. None. Completely stumped, we stood in the garage, unable to get started on our journey, surrounded by unruly piles of pillows and quantities of quilt. What to do?

We ended up cramming everything into two contractor bags, toting those down to the UPS store and having them ship our bedding out to Santa Fe for us. I felt silly hauling contractor bags into the UPS store, but they didn't bat an eye.

But where to ship to? We don't have an address yet (technically we are homeless).

I didn't want the sellers to have to deal with big boxes of bedding arriving at their doorstep for us just as they are trying to move, and having the stuff shipped to arrive after we close defeats the purpose of having our pillows and bedding with us for our first night in the new house.

So we had it shipped to the UPS store in Santa Fe and they'll hold it there until we pick it up. The day we move in, we can go to the UPS store, get our bedding and bring it to the new house.

With that last minute solution, we can get underway. The car is totally full and loaded down, our furniture and worldly goods are on a moving van somewhere, and two black plastic bags stuffed with pillows and sheets and blanket and quilt are in a brown UPS truck headed west.