Glad I came back up here to look for replies! Yay! I got the good dirt! :D I had no idea what I was doing. The guy at the co-op recommended this. I knew we were anti-Hyponex and pro co-op mix, but that's all I knew. :) Uh oh...no styrofoam? Bummer. I just did a few, and so easy to poke holes in the bottom. I tried poking holes in the yogurt cup first and split it. Oops. I think a plastic container sounds like a good idea to house everything, drilling holes in the top. Do I also have to make drainage holes in the bottom? I do have a paint pen. It's one of those Deco-Color from Michael's craft store.

I really don't want my refrigerator to be sexy. I want it to fit snugly into a recess with trim that seals it off so it doesn't get dust sucked in along the sides and the cat can't shove stuff underneath. I want it to be shallow so things don't get lost in the back. I want paneled because I don't want stainless in this kitchen. I don't want it to impress people, I don't want people to notice it. And if I could get this for $3000 I would be all over it, I am not impressing anyone least of all myself to have to spend $10,000 for it. I actually think it's a little embarrassing. Just as an aside, believe it or not, lots of people don't even know what a Subzero is. (Or any built-in fridge for that matter). My last apartment I put a Subzero in because my refrigerator was technically in my living room right outside the kitchen. When I put the unit on the market, some of the feedback I got was "Could not find the Refrigerator in the kitchen(?)" and "Did not like that there was no DW" (also paneled). This happened a number of times. I ended up putting Post-It notes on them saying "This is the Refrigerator" , "This is the DW"., so people could find them. Then I had people say "Oh that's really cool, how did you take the front of the regular door off?"

Well, I finished packing today - every box is sealed up, labeled and ready to go on Friday. I got this done in eleven days with no help from DH other than occasional heavy lifting. That includes going through every closet, drawer, cabinet and nook and cranny of the 3600 square foot house to sort out what to take, what to donate, what to throw away and what to deal with in the spring when we put the house on the market. Above and beyond the 3600 square feet was a fully loaded, large attic storage area above an oversized two car garage plus the storage space in the garage. I left DH at home when I did this so I could do some serious purging as he has a very hard time parting with anything. He has no idea what all he has/had and will never miss all the crap I got rid of. In addition to that I spent a few days at home going through the basement storage area and sorting all that out as there were some things in there that we're taking with us. We loaded that stuff in a cargo van and hauled it to the lake place to be moved. I managed to get rid of a bunch of crap from that area too when DH wasn't looking. I was hauling some stuff to the car to take to Goodwill and I was afraid he'd open the containers and start retrieving items. He asked what was in one box and I told him it was my old college textbooks though it was actually old paperbacks that he probably would not have wanted to part with. Anyway, it's done. The next big job will be in the spring and that will be ugly because it will include DH's stuff including such things as books from his father's office that no one in the family wanted to part with so it ended up in our attic. Uggghhh.....not going to think about that....just going to enjoy getting settled in the new place. We'll fly there for a few days in December to take delivery of our things and then drive down in January with the cats and stay through March. Then back to MN until September. I'm doing some test runs with medicated cats in carriers in the next couple weeks - hope that works out.

I must say it's the first time I've felt like I had a full-time job since I retired. I probably worked on it 8-10 hours a day. This whole move has brought back my project management days - kind of my thing. I've actually enjoyed it but I'm not much of a hobby/craft kind of person. I'd rather do something that serves a purpose and this certainly does that. @mtnrdredux_gw - interesting you mention a storage unit but unfortunately DH would not decide in a year that he didn't want what he put in there. He never decides he doesn't want something he's saved - pretty sure it's hereditary. I said to myself early on that there was no way we'd rent a storage unit to keep stuff that hasn't been used in 20-30 years, and never will be, but I was looking into it for a sailboat, classic car and two kayaks (we're taking two of the four with us). Of course that would not be a small one but may be necessary and worthwhile as we have not ruled out buying a different lake home in the future if we decide we don't want to be in town in the summer and we find the right place (the one we are selling is not the right place).