Evelyn roadmap

Tasks by room

Attic

• Empty residual construction materials
• Stack doors
• Bring up trim

Tomaž office

• Empty bookshelves to e.g. library
• Remove bookshelves (sell/free stuff)
• Empty closet
• Resolve closet light
• iMacs: back up, wipe, list for sale
• Clean balcony

Julia office

• Remove low chair
• Remove wooden desk

Eli bedroom

• Empty closet
• Empty drawers below bed
• Move residual giveaway clothes from dresser to giveaway pile

Martin bedroom

• Remove small bookcase
• Remove large wood desk

Exercise room

• Clean out closets
• Paint touchup around closet shelves as needed
• Organize exercise equipment

Master bedroom

• Remove carpet

Master bathroom

• Replace window curtain with blinds
• Replace all auxiliary lights; possibly replace with non-dimming switch

Sitting room

• Move table to library

Kitchen

• Remove round table
• Fix loose cabinet hardware

Dining room

• Remove bench
• Empty Eli CD shelves and remove or store CD shelves

Library

• Remove puzzle table
• Collect bookshelves, decorative glasses, and other staging material to fill 6 foot high on all bookshelves
• Hang paintings

Garage

• Remove shelves
• Remove PVC drainage pipes
• Fix one door so it opens with remote
• Remove all doors and scrap wood from roof joists

Tasks not tied to rooms

• Storm windows replaced with screens
• Evaluate all light bulbs for installation/replacement.
• Replace all T12 flourescents with warm white LED replacements
• Pencil jar and notebook station in upstairs and downstairs
• Cardboard box supply station
• Loose coins jar
• Wax/refinish scratched wood furniture

Dump boxes:

• E-waste dump box
• Medical waste dump box
• Goodwill clothes
• Batteries
• Office supplies

Sell/Dump/Free stuff

Sell or free stuff

• iMacs
• Tomaž office bookshelves
• Tomaž office desk
• Master bedroom rug
• Library puzzle table
• Kitchen room round table
• Dining room bench and chairs
• Library sink
• Trampoline
• Martin room desk
• Garden stepping stones
• Martin room bookshelves
• Garage shelves
• Mom office desk
• Outdoor back patio desk
• Fish tank
• Mom grandparents piano stool
• Light bulbs
• Exercise room and master bedroom carpet
• Carpet pad
• Basement carpet
• Garage gutters
• Garage pots
• Garage trash can
• Garage pesticides and sprays
• Garage drain pipe
• Wheelbarrow
• Garden tools
• Christmas decorations
• Cleaning supplies
• Basement freezer

Dump/Giveaway

• Tomaž office lamp
• Medical waste
• CDs
• Books
• E-waste
• Clothes
• Batteries
• Used light bulbs
• Office supplies
• Paint
• Engine oil

Tasks by day

2025-05-13

• Unlock iMacs and get USB drives
• Exercise room shelves
• Put away CDs
• Sitting room table to library
• Research garage doors (Marantec Residential Garage Door Opener Series Q-7500) (Models: M-4500, M-4700 Q-7500, Q-7700, Q-7900)
• Prepare dump boxes for: e-waste, medical waste, goodwill clothes

2025-05-14

• Empty Tomaž office closet contents into newly-inaugurated e-waste and medical DumpBoxes.And create new dump boxes as needed.
• Ironing board resolved.
• Battery DumpBox
• Office supplies DumpBox
• Evaluate exercise room closet shelves for oiling.
• Decide on organizing exercise room equipment into newly cleaned shelves.
• Back up iMac contents to USB drives and label drives.
• Empty Eli closet to clothes DumpBox
• Initiate family CD cleaning up
• Investigate power supply to garage door transmitter
• Light inventory: check all missing bulbs, mismatched colors.Prepare list of bulbs to buy/order and lamps to clean.Buy:
  • 3x outdoor light 3000 K
  • 4x A19 3000 K
  • 3x BR30 3000 K
  • 1x T12
  • 2x T12 cover
  • 1x fake light
  • 6x single-pole switch

2025-05-15

• Do a full evaluation and TODO on library
• Replace Dad office flourescent bulb
• Confirm USB contents of backed-up iMacs are accessible on other computers.
• Pair Bluetooth keyboards and mice with iMacs.
• List iMacs for sale
• Clean dirty bulbs
• Buy necessary replacement bulbs.Then replace bulbs.
• Finish up organizing exercise equipment in exercise room
• Garage door: check continuity of wires from RX and TX to main unit

2025-05-16

Wrap up lingering items from previous days.

2025-05-17

• Prepare computer desk for transport
• Make Tomaž's office a DumpFreeRoom
• Make exercise room a DumpFreeRoom
• Investigate potential for emptying basement freezer
• Collect next batch of lingering selling items (mirror, fish supplies, Martin's instruments, Inter Milan jacket, freezer)
• Install new light switches
• Install new switch plate and outlet plate screws
• Empty garage to basement
• Begin work in library

2025-05-18

• Make Eli's room a DumpFreeRoom
• Pictures of free stuff in garage.
• Collect free stuff in house. Include light bulbs!
• List garage free stuff
• Prepare basement freezer ad materials
• Prepare ad material of Martin's for-sale stuff with Martin
• Keep up good work in library with family during family work hour
• Take down garage shelves

2025-05-19

• Keep up good work in library with family during family work hour
• Patch library painting hanging nail holes with painters
• Ask painters about random orbit sander for table
• Put all basement legos and playmobiles in one place
• House walkthrough with Laura. Questions include:
  • Remove kitchen table and show empty (expansive)? Or do we keep the small round table for the kitchen?
  • Flourescent T12 bulb missing cover? Maybe just go coverless given how crappy covers are?
  • Second opinion on Mom office low chair — can we keep with the matching couch set?
  • Second opinion on sitting room antique furniture — perhaps it can stay given it matches mahogany trim in sitting room?
  • Lights in Mom's bathroom
  • To what extent do drawers (e.g. in kitchen, bedrooms) have to be empty? Arranged? Should we be ready for every drawer to be opened?
  • Are we putting up any paintings in bathrooms?

2025-05-20

• Take all material down from garage ceiling
• Finish processing library bookshelves during family work time
• Keep up good work with basement Legos/Playmobils
• Fix loose kitchen hardware
• Identify circuits: master bathroom auxiliary lights; dining room outlets
• List carpet pad for free takeaway
• List chest of drawers in library or decide a taker with Mom

2025-05-21

• Wrap up lingering items from previous days.
• Determine wiring of T12 flourescent fixtures (shunted? non-shunted?)
• Fix master bathroom auxiliary lights—replace dimmer switches with standard switches
• Investigate dining room outlet screw or box replacement
• Measure master bathroom window dimensions for blinds
• Research:
  • Window blinds
  • Wood scratch remover/refinishing products
  • Shipping to Slovenia
  • Storage options

2025-05-22

• Decide on wood scratch remover
• Purchase outlet box for dining room outlet
• Install new dining room outlet junction box and outlet
• Replace garage door safety sensors
• Purchase LED replacements for tubular flourescent lights

2025-05-23

• Basement concrete cover for drain line clean-out
• Bagster
• Garage contents emptied to bagster
• Remaining attic contents emptied to bagster
• Finalize attic: remove all lingering construction materials; bring up all remaining trim; stack doors and trim nicely; make attic a DumpFreeRoom.
• Basement plastic foil to bagster
• Inventory all library materials and organize into staging/keep/get-rid-of

2025-05-24

• Inventory all basement materials and organize into staging/keep/get-rid-of
• List Martin's fish tank for sale
• Library dump/get-rid-of areas
• Inventory and test fit all windows screens and storm windows; find matching screen and storm window for every window; note missing/broken screens/windows
• Zip-Tie garage door wiring

2025-05-25

• Mount cellular blinds in master bathroom (taken from exercise room)
• Process all library materials and make library a dump-free room

2025-05-26

Could only work until 12 pm — Princeton class day + Kate visit.

• Processing all basement materials and make basement a dump-free room: mostly worked on storing stuff into coherent categories and processing tools and hardware to give away/keep
• Replace all T12 flourescents with warm white LED replacements

2025-05-27

Work day interrupted — commencement and family dinner.

• Finish processing all basement materials and make basement a dump-free room:
  • Mom archive stuff packed for storage
  • Clean up glass jars and sort into goes/stays
  • Free-stuff Mom's Spencer shelves
  • Christmas ornaments boxed
  • Cut and dump steel plumbing pipes
  • Process Pokemon cards
  • Paint boxed for next owner
• Glue cracked window frame in Mom's closet
• List wheelbarrow+tools, Christmas ornaments, Mom's old Spencer shelves, cleaning supplies

2025-05-28

• Which linens/towels/bedding is Mom keeping?
• Full house walkthrough and sort all remaining items into goes/stays.
• Process all kitchen materials and sort into stays/goes.
• Purchase replacement cellular blinds for exercise room

2025-05-29

• Hang library paintings
• List rowing machine for sale
• Collect all items for storage and measure approximate dimensions
• Label all window screens and storm windows
• Dump load to Pennington
• Install exercise room blinds

2025-05-30

• Label storage boxes
• Dump lingering items into dumpster
• Arrange cleaning for Monday/Tuesday
• Load U-Haul and take storage materials to storage facility
• Pennington run with more giveaway materials

2025-05-31

• Playmobils: sort into keep/giveaway
• Store Tania items in basement
• Sort bedding and linens into stays/goes
• Collect and sort accumulated packaging into recycling/trash and box for recycling
• Dispose of Tomaž rocks

2025-06-01

• Clean exterior of all windows
• Fix all broken storm window clips
• Fix switches/change bulbs on lamps
• Glue up and install ceiling light blanks in master bathroom

Lingering items

• Touch-up finish on wood furniture: sitting room coffee table, kitchen table, dining room chest of drawers, library coffee table
• Clean Tomaž office balcony
• Clean lingering windows/storm windows
• Inventory remaining house items; sort into giveaway/dump/storage
• Empty kitchen and mudroom drawers/cabinets and boxify fridge items for easy removal so cleaners can clean/dust inside
• Take remaining items to storage
• Mop basement perimeter; sweep up remaining construction waste from 2024-25 Randall renovation; clean window sills; clean dust from appliances (water filter, boiler, dehumidifiers, sump pumps, etc.)
• Repair disconnected wiring for range hood vent lights
• Move antique chest of drawers to basement to free up space in sitting room
• Rearrange sofas/drawers/cabinets/desks/chairs into place for staging
• Center all furniture/cabinets/drawers along walls and push flush agains wall
• Complete/review staging of library, Tomaž's office, Eli and Martin's rooms, exercise room, kitchen, sitting room
• Dispose of remaining rock collection rocks
• Assemble coat rack from Amazon; move to basement; empty Martin's closet, Eli's closet, and entry closet to basement coat rack
• Empty kitchen countertops; pack and label kitchen items and appliances that stay in house for use in July; move boxes to basement
• Neatly stack/arrange boxes and furniture that stays in basement for showing