Moving Sucks!
 

At the beginning of August we sold our old house and bought a new one (actually old, built in 1926). I told my wife there was no way in hell I would move us again so we hired movers. No complaints with them, worked their asses off and no damage. But even with using 6 strong movers it still took 10 hours to load, move and unload just the furniture and packed boxes. We then spent all labor day weekend moving the small stuff and cleaning the old house. It sucked big time. I will die in this house before I move again! One lesson learned, pay someone to clean the old house. Once you move you lose all desire to do anything to the old house.

No disagreement with me over this!

When I am moving I make a sign and put it on all the doors. It says "what you keep you move" and works very well.

1. Secure photo albums.
2. Burn old house and contents to the ground.
3. Claim insurance.

Infinitely preferable to moving and you get lots of new stuff.;)

Yep, moving sucks. We've done it nine times, so far. I never want to do it again. :(

Friends help you move.

Good friends help you move bodies.

i can pack all my shi1t in one 944
the only thing that won't fit , is my 911

i'm not hauling any furniture to my next hideout

try moving with a 911 as your only vehicle ;)

I've moved a bunch. Probably the worst was helping my ex move from Pasadena to Berkeley. She lived in a studio guest house and was supposed to have it all packed up. I flew down from SF and she picked me up at Burbank airport around 5pm on Saturday. We went to her place and stuff was everywhere. Finally by 11pm we had finished packing the u-haul. Then we started the drive north. About 4am in the middle on nowhere on I5 we hit tule fog and that combined with nodding off made for an exciting hour or two. Rolled into the driveway of my apt in SF about 6am. That sucked.

The next 3 moves we had movers, but still a ridiculous amount of work. Then when I moved out I moved myself. A couple of carloads of the 911 into a converted garage, then borrowed the 4-runner to move more stuff into my first apt, then I moved myself on foot from an upstairs apt to a larger apt downstairs in the same building. I just got a big laundry basket and move the apt one load at a time. That sucked too.

It all sucks. Sorry for you pain...

One bit of advice.

If possible, rent your "old" home for a month or two after closing. This gives you time with the "new" house to do whatever repairs/redecoration is necessary. Also, moving can be more leisurely accomplished.

Haven't done it with the 911 as an only vehicle, but I did use it once (Portland-->L.A.), and was pretty amazed at how much that car can swallow up. Have done/am doing 3 cross-country moves in 2.5 years. It's getting old.

I used to work for United Van Lines. I've moved *hundreds* of times - just not my stuff. :>)

Mike

When I moved from my apartment to my house, I had a three-week overlap. That, and they were less than a mile from each other. At the end of the three weeks, the only moving was furniture with my friend's S10.

Now I have tons more crap than when I moved into the house. We will buy a bigger house in town eventually, but moving will be much more involved...

try moving from a house full of stoner room-mates. i have done it twice. the first time, i went thru and cleaned the most effed up garage in the history of mankind. i ordered a dumpster, then a cleanup crew. the entire time, the roomies would pull stuff out of the junk pile so "they could go thru it later". i swear, i had to make three solo runs to the dump, with my pickup, to get rid of that very same "pending" pile that they NEVER looked at again. i did 85% of all the work. would have been easier just to start hitting the bong. then i moved away from them into my first home purchase, and my best friend was my handtruck. i moved by myself everything. maybe 10 trips with my small truck over a two week period. i know who my real friends are! ME, MYSELF, & I! :) it was hell. the next time i am farming out the work.

Same here. I put myself through college working for Global Van Lines in Las Vegas and Hayward, CA. With a couple of helpers I can pack, pick and deliver a 3 bedroom house in a weekend.

The hardest part of moving for me is to get my wife to stop "helping" me.