Please pass the valium

The packers have left. It was estimated to take them 1 day to pack. It took 2 full days. They ran out of boxes and had to return with more the second day. And THIS is what the house looks like now.
And we're worried that we are over the estimate which was frighteningly close to our 'allowed' weight. It took them 1 day longer to pack, 2x as many boxes----- no, it doesn't look good. We have alot of heavy stuff, especially tools, books and apparently lots of other heavy things. SO... in the spirit of getting under weight we have offloaded lots of stuff.. our couch and love seat, our deformed grill that was melted/reshaped after it was caught on fire not once but twice.., Larry's chop saw, table saw, a TV, and all sorts of other stuff that doesn't look so move-worthy when you realize it's going to cost you $.50/lb if you're over the allowed weight (no, not REAL sure about the exact amout, but that's a fairly educated guess)

SO- that ratty T-shirt- no, not worth $1. That broken Larry-will-fix-it-someday CD player- not worth the $3 to move, etc. Unfortunately, we figured this out about 1/2 way through them packing/sealing boxes, and it was midnight as we were doing this with the other 1/2 of our belongings..

And not only that, they packed stuff they shouldn't have but we didn't catch it until now.. and it's too late- like the silverware basket for the dishwasher. It's packed. It's not in the dishwasher, and we have NO idea which of the 500 boxes it's in. We'll be mailing it back to the house, I guess.. oh, and they do this special seal-the-box-with-2-yards-of-tape thing, so we really can't go re-opeinging the boxes..

So..in the spirit of adventure, I took a picuture of what I will be living out of for the next 6-8+ weeks: