I moved 5 times in 3 years and I'm talking about a full house full of furniture and a garage full of junk and tools. I'm like the other posters than say, "I'm planted."

But, I wish I could move some stuff to the dumpster. I even have to rent a garage down the street for the overflow.

My wife & I recently moved from a small to a larger place. The larger place is just a full as the smaller place was. Course we did empty the two - 40 ft. storage units and the 20 ft. container we had stuff stored in. That was after throwing away a hefty amount too.

Tom's move wasn't made any easy by his woman I'm sure.... :p

Coulda saved yourself sooo much trouble man...

I am laying in bed in pain. I am not as nimble as I used to be.

It doesn't get any easier. But (I strongly believe this) it's better than paying someone. Doing it yourself might be tough, but it makes you stronger. I'm firmly opposed to paying someone to do something I can do myself - that goes for car repairs, home repairs, fixing stuff in general, building computers, web sites, you-name-it. I like keeping my money thanks.

What good is knowledge/experience/strength gained unless you can use it to realize some benefit (i.e. saving money) by it? If you're just going to pay people to deal with every obstacle in life, why bother learning anything?

Next time I move, I'm taking one, UNO car-load of stuff. Clothes, a laptop and a mountain bike. Possibly my tools. That's it. Everything else stays and gets rolled into the cost of selling the place. I ain't dealing with it again. Everything else is expendable and it's an excuse for new furniture, whatever at the new place. I doubt I'll even take my 911 honestly. I'm sick of being beholden to the crap we own.

Wife?

he said that his wife stays and gets rolled into the cost of selling the place...

have moved a dumpster to within three point shot range of my balcony. makes moving much easier. truly disturbing how much crap i've collected.

I just moved this past weekend into my new house about 17 miles down the road from the last one. Now I live equidistant between Joeaksa and Oddjob. Took me eight trips in Joe's truck over two weekends and one trip in a big Budget truck. My wife is a pack rat and a shopaholic. I think this move cured her of those ailments.

Aint that the truth. LOL. You find out who the real friends are when moving day comes around.

Just gonna leave all that stuff for the kids to sort through when you get carted off to the old folks home, then? ;)

I worked for Global Van Lines to put myself through college. When we move, I tell the wife to go shopping. I get my buddies together, and I can have a four bedroom house, packed, picked and delivered in one day (for a local move).

Takes a week if she helps.

Always rent as big a truck as you can get. If you make multiple trips with the small truck, you are killed on the mileage.

Option B is to rent a no milage trailer for your pick up truck. This reduces the number of trips, plus they are easier to load than the pickup bed. And they have some really big trailers.

I reserved a truck with a liftgate, but they couldn't round one up for me. I knew I only needed one trip in that 15' truck at $.14 per mile. The rest I knew I could fit into Joe's truck. We still have some stuff to pack up, but the 993 and Mini can carry it all in a few more trips.

I am finally done with four trips in a fully loaded expedition.

Wanna know a trick?

Don't go and buy lots of new furniture until the day you're moving. Otherwise, you've moved said furniture twice ;)

I said that's what I'M taking. What she wants to take is her problem.

There are days when the "include with stuff to sell" idea holds certain appeal though, I have to admit...

in san francisco, i lived with pack rats. the garage looked like hoarders dumped the schit they didnt want. total krap. if i didnt tackle it, nobody would. i ordered a dumpster, AND a clean up crew. i went thru everything. put the little bit that could be salvaged, and started dumping the rest. my room-mates came by, saw what i was doing, and pulled some stuff out and set it in the small "save pile" this pile got huge. it slowly got HUGE. the clean up crew came and took it all. now i have this big "saved" pile. come moving day..nobody revisited it. i had to order another clean up crew to toss it again. if i had a pistol, it would have been a shooting spree. living in SF, i had to put up with roommates. i moved with them..i painted the new place, and set it up. i quickly put my finances together and got the eff out of there.

- is this a physics exam???

I made no mention of whether the furniture was on frictionless casters, or pushed up or down inclined planes...so...

No. :p

one could still calculate the minimum # ergs required based on elevational changes...