Once our new racks were set up, Lucky said we could start bringing more stuff into the soaproom. Each day we would fill the Hulk with something new. It took us several weeks, but eventually we had everything brought up to the soaproom (and mostly put away).
Our extra USPS boxes were some of the first things to come up. We always make sure we keep a lot of extra available in case the post office runs out or we have a publicity event. Hewitt is great at shuffling boxes back and forth as we unload.
After the USPS boxes, (on the rack to the right in this picture) some of our inventory started to come up. We had a box of empty pump bottles that was half-full, so Indigo put them into a plastic bin.
Mom worked on sorting and organizing the lotion and lip balm supplies. It was awesome to have dedicated space for them.
Then she and Indigo organized all the laundry soap supplies.
As we brought things up from the Charlestown place, we’d bring the tables and racks that they were on. Before long, we had more tables in the new place than we did at the old place!
Moving everything into the new soaproom was tricky because we had to keep shipping out of Charlestown. It took us several weeks, but eventually we decided we had moved enough to Scottsburg and we could make the switch. So we chose a weekend and brought the rest of it to Scottsburg.
On Monday, September 24, 2012, we printed our first postage in Scottsburg and shipped orders out of our new soaproom!
That was a happy day. Even though we were still living in Charlestown because the house wasn’t ready, we now just had to commute the family. We no longer had to load soaproom stuff into the Hulk in the morning, unload it when we got to the soaproom, and put it all away.
At least, we didn’t have to keep moving stuff until it was time to start moving into the new house eight months later.