Car and Reclaiming our House

This is not a normal shop.  Just the liquids because
they are so heavy and hard to do without a car. 

Marty and I rented a car for a few hours because one of the things that has been really bugging us is the enormous pile of garbage in our front yard.  The construction workers do work very clean but with the amount of work that is being done on our house it creates a lot of mess.  99% of it they take care of with an enormous dumpster right in front of our house. Lovely!  Along side a VERY smelly (especially when it was summer time heat to warm it up) portapotty.  Our house from the street is so not very attractive at the moment.  But it is the trend as every 8th or 10th house you walk by in this area seems to be going under some kind of construction work.

So anyway, Marty and I rented a car to transport some of the

We finally have a dining room again. Although
we rarely use it as the Winter Garten is so much
more convenient.

roofing paper to the dump.  It has to be bundled up in little plastic packages, wrapped in twine to be accepted at the dump where we have to pay an enormous fee for them to take it.   No joke.  And if the contractor took it along with the rest of the stuff it would cost twice what it costs the average person.  So since we are already spending so much money on this remodel we decided we could do this ourselves.  Well, this was our 2nd time renting a car for this purpose. 

It has been beautifully Fall here

First time a few months ago we took two very full trips.  Back seats down and car fully loaded.  This time was the same.  And still with even us depositing it as a regular person it costs over 200 Euro just to get rid of it just for today's load!!
But since we had the car and we still had about another 30 minutes until the car was due back we stopped by the store and drink store to load up on the heavy stuff that is a pain to carry in our bike baskets.  Cost of living really is so much cheaper over here.  I am reminded every time I go grocery shopping - which is every day or couple times a day because only so much can fit in one load.
Today because we were so tight on time having to return the car I just ran through and grabbed things willy nilly.  Next time I will have a better list but this is what we bought:

5 bottles of wine
12x 1.5 liters of organic milk
6 bottles of flavored drink syrups
12 bottles of not-from-concentrate juice
12 bottles sparkling water
4 cans pringles
4 cans san pelligrino
24 bottles of various craft beers
A bunch of toilet paper (because of all of the above)
Paper towels
5 lbs of potatoes
Shampoo
Conditioner
2 boxes of cereal

And all of that came to 120 Euro but 10 Euro was refundable deposit on crates and bottles.  So it was 110 Euro which equals 120 USD.

Benjamin, Zeke and Mogli

We are also reclaiming our house.  Since we moved in in August our dining room has been the catch all for everything that didn't have a place.  They just recently finished the rec room so now all of that stuff (along with all of our other stuff ) goes in the rec room while they work on finishing the rest of the basement.