Checking in here. Used to be the foreman for a moving company. Great front.
General how much would you pay not to pack your house?
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Moving sucks. My last 3 moves have had full relocation being paid for. thankfully. Amsterdam to SE Virginia, to NorVA to California. Literally down to the movers packing and wrapping plates. I still hate it even though I don't really have to do much.
Moving is one of the things that stops me from wanting to move.
I enjoy unpacking. It took like 6 weeks to get my stuff in Virginia from Amsterdam, a month or so from VA to CA, I get really tetchy not having my kitchen equipment.
Fuck that shit. I'm pretty sure I still have stuff I haven't unpacked from 6 years ago.
Most of my stuff is in storage...apart from my kitchen stuff. I can't do without it.
Miss my books though.
Packing and moving absolutely sucks. We hired movers 2 years ago and they took everything they could fit into their truck, which was a lot. Furniture, appliances, washer & dryer, TV’s, tubs full of whatever, etc. Think it cost $1250. But we still had to pack and move everything else ourselves. If I had to do it all over again, I’d pay someone to do it all....if I could afford it, which I probably couldn’t.
I hate moving. It makes you realize how much useless shit you don't need you have acquired over the years.
Although I do wish I'd kept my Hattori hanzo swords.
well the final cost was around $1,800, with $300 of that being overnight storage fees, and it was 100% worth it. fuck ever moving all my stuff. was different when i was 24 and did not own much.
Every bit of this.
I have moved more times than I can count in my life. And at least half of those have been moving other people.
(One of the very few drawbacks to working out and getting big & strong - you suddenly become #1 on everyone's speed dial when they have to move.)
I can't tell you how many of those times I regretted it because they weren't ready, the others they had helping them were slow, lazy fucks, virtually everyone involved was an incompetent oaf, or all of the above.
I once helped my family move my ex bro-in-law out of his 2nd floor apartment in college. Everyone else was so useless that it was quite literally easier for me to figure out how to manuever his recliner, mattress, box spring, etc (pretty much everything minus his couch & 50-gallon fish tank) out the door, down the hallway, down the stairwell, across the parking lot and into the U-Haul by my fucking self than it was to get help.
As for my personal answer:
I'm very much an essentialist now (not a minimalist, but close) and my ideal way of "packing" would be keeping enough to fill up a trunk & bug out bag. Throw those in the car and be on the road.
Then again, I'm building toward living nomad for a while too, so...
I'm very much an essentialist now (not a minimalist, but close) and my ideal way of "packing" would be keeping enough to fill up a trunk & bug out bag. Throw those in the car and be on the road.
Then again, I'm building toward living nomad for a while too, so...
OP is a serial old ass thread bumper.
I had to go through this recently and it was astounding how some people just are not accustomed to accomplishing anything... they know the goal, but somehow they go through life thinking not doing anything gets them magically to the goal. It isn't a hard concept, this stuff needs to be taken out of the building and put into a truck, either pick it up and carry it or put it in a box and the box goes out. I had 2 groups of people, the doers and the non-doers and the non-doers were actually stressed and could not handle things happening around them, it was a foreign concept to them.
It really is mind-bottling.
Thing is, it's not just that they seemingly don't want (or know how) to work hard. It's like they simply just don't "get" it. As if the idea of "this box / chair / table / whatever ain't getting loaded on the truck unless someone picks it up and puts it there" is a foreign language or something. lol
Best case scenario, there's someone young(-ish) there that's big enough to work, but has no idea what to do, and will just do what they're told. If I can get a kid like that to help me, me & him can get more done, faster, than any 3-4 other adults combined.
I am getting ready to move to a smaller cheaper house and will pay to have everything moved but I will pack up my stuff. I like packing everything carefully so unpacking my equipment,tools,and electronics is logically easy.
