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- Feb 18, 2024, 11:33 PM
- 🌙 -3 °C
- Altitude: 237 m
United StatesFounders Park41°52’28” N 88°8’33” W
Day 1!

The breakdown is there are 8 storage units overall (unincluding one in new jersey):
2 in downers grove
6 in Winfield (where our Airbnb is) FYI: of the 6 in Winfield:
- one we don't have keys to
- And one is mega full so...
- we are only gonna interact with 4 of them.
Our plan is to make the 4 Winfield units into 1 so that we half the overall amount of Winfield units, and if we can do that we will try and empty out the 2 in downers grove. So we would get it down from 9 to 4 units. So far, it seems feasible!
Today was the first day of cleaning out and aren't we lucky it was a Sunday. It meant only the goodwill was open, so our first stop of the day was the storage units in downers grove where mum knew a lot of it was clothes (easy wins). We emptied out a 1/4 of one of them and then had lunch at the library. We then dropped off our goods at the goodwill, who just took everything, which blew my tiny mind; and moved on to the next storage units. We did a second re-filling of the car, jigged some things around, moved some shelves and called it a day. Then I cooked us a lovely lentil and rice stew and I ended the day with a yoga.
I hope it's gonna get easier every day, and we are gonna make sure we are maintaining good stamina by taking 10 minute breaks every hour. There's an ocean of stuff that we could just sit and go through, but it's important we keep ourselves rested because the work can get fatiguing (both emotionally and physically).
As long as we keep our routine of packing the car twice a day with crap, I think we should be able to reach our goals.
These posts are gonna be a mix of random shit we find, and pictures of storage units (hopefully getting emptier!) and maybe some food and sunsets along the way.
Love,
H & HRead more
Traveler Fantastic! Great work. So glad you are also taking care of yourselves. Hopefully not too cold. Yikes. hang in there!
Traveler It's really cold in the mornings, but by 3pm it gets to about 6-9 degrees, so we are enjoying the sunshine during our lunch breaks and wrapping up in the mornings.
Traveler Tell me about the tupawear though! What is that deliciousness?? Also, I love all the patterns on the items. It’s a good thing I’m not there or I’d be coming home with 15 coin purses and half a dozen other containers covered in paisley. 😍
Traveler Hahahaha, yes it was a struggle not to take stuff home at first, but god, we must have gone through atleast 80 purses and bags in just the first storage room!
Traveler You, me, Ellie, and Macklemore - we love poppin tags