Shurgard - to the rescue!

Yesterday evening it felt like the whole world was on my shoulders, everything (and I do mean EVERYTHING) was impossible to solve, but still my very own task to solve. I was devastated. The guy whose apartment we're moving into hasn't returned any of my 4 phone calls, and two voicebox-messages. The rules of clearing your apartment for inspection with our landlord is tricky. The apartment needs to be totally empty and super-clean at 12 noon on the moving out day, and the moving in time isn't until 2pm that same day. With the same landlord. Still it seems impossible to come to some agreement.

This morning, after sleeping hard on the topic and deciding to stay home from work to recuperate, I was ready to follow through the ultimate solution. Covername "Shurgard".

I called them, and no problems were encountered. I booked a storage room of 9 square meters for 8 days, including insurance for up to 100'000 SEK (swedish kronor), for 545 SEK. So cheap, and so easy. Of course not easier than just carrying our things two houses down the road, but the best solution under the stupid circumstances. I took the bus over there, signed all the papers, paid the price, bought some nice boxes to store all our one million bottles in, and saw our little cube. It was cute. You actually had to sign specifically for understanding that you are not allowed to live in your storage room. He referred to it as the "common sense"-line I had to sign. He was kind, funny and made me relaxed. Now it is all settled. Everything but the absolutely necessary things (bed, cat, tv, and some clothes) will be moved out on the 27th of May - sign up for helping out by posting a comment. Please?! And on the 1st and 2nd of June, we'll be moving everything back into the new apartment (from the Shurgard storage room). To sign up for helping out on these dates, also post a comment. Pretty please?!

I actually think I'm in love with Shurgard today. What a brilliant buisness idea!