Moving

Jesus Christ, I am doing this again. 7th time in 6 years

Why do I ever buy a bed

Bought a bed today. Finally feels like I'm living in my house now instead of camping in it.

Moving. Moving on September 1. In Boston. Also: working the entire day (can't take it off...). Can't find movers for under $800 to move a 2 bedroom apartment 2 miles away. Ugh. How did I acquire so many books? I'm packing my twenty third book box right now, and I haven't even made it through fiction. Not to mention the reference and cookbooks, or – oh god – the young adult pile.

:( :(

Remy that is RIDICULOUS cost. Get two guys from craigslist, you can find movers for like $70 per hour for two people and their truck!! Or is the problem that they have to do it when you're not there and etc???

At least in NYC the cost of movers is minimal, if by minimal you mean "between 200-300 dollars." Maybe it's not the same in other cities, but I say try it!

I feel you with the books -- I went to a moving supply warehouse some years back and bought like 25 extra-sturdy book boxes and have used them for 3-4 moves and now all books are in storage in them and they're still working fine. Very stackable up to like 6 or 7 high.

http://moverssupplies.com/

Those guys are actually located in Brooklyn so I just showed up there with a car service to pick up a bunch of stuff. They were surprised but I'll be damned if I was gonna pay shipping from some place in Gowanus.

Big big props to the plastic wrap, fyi. It's better than tape for securing furniture, anything with movable parts or drawers, wrapping cords and remotes to the electronic devices they go with, protecting things from scratches. When you pull it off, it doesn't take the varnish with it or leave sticky residue.

If your box sizes are uniform and stackable and the movers have dollies, they can stack that shit, plastic wrap it together, and move 8 or 12 boxes at once. Won't work for stairs obv but for ramps, hallways, elevators, etc it will.

I think I am being gouged b/c of the date... landlords are being intractable w/r/t leases, so we've got to be out of one place no later than the 31st and into the other no earlier than the 1st.

I have a bunch of old double-walled magazine boxes from the days I worked at Borders. They're good, but they're so... many. We're moving from a second floor to a first floor and probably wouldn't be using movers if it weren't for the fact we (Ms. Remy & I) both have to work the entire week of the move.

Dude just get a man with a van!! Even if he has to do three trips

No way you can move the day before or something..?

Do it in three days, in the evening?? Actually that might cost more than just doing it all in one day or something but if you HAVE to, you can...right?

SOME moving companies do jack their rates around the first of the month which I think is usurious and despicable because when else are you SUPPOSED to move?!? But you should be able to find a fair deal if you call enough places and get their details and write them down and compare notes after like 8 or 10 phone calls. They might say, "On the first of the month, we have a 3-hour minimum charge" or "...we only send out 3-man teams" which might have a higher hourly rate than you wanted, but things will get done correspondingly faster too.

Oh sorry forget the 3-day thing, I just actually processed what you wrote.

Can't do anything before. Tenant in future apartment won't be leaving until the evening of the 31st, and landlord in the current apartment (who are forcing us out so they can remodel) won't let us move a day later. I'll be teaching class all day, and girlfriend has to work, so....

I'd be happy to do the move myself, but I'm not strong enough to lift our couches and bookcases on my own.

man. with. van. if you start at 6pm you'll finish in time for bed.

This place from c-list Boston is offering to move people FROM BOSTON TO NYC for $800 so I'm pretty sure their cost to move you TWO MILES will be more reasonable.

Also, what Tracer said, although I personally have too much stuff to get anywhere near a van and have found that my last two or three moves have been all-day affairs even with movers so I wouldn't put too much stock in that "done by bedtime" thing.

To be fair, I had multiple stops last time and one of them was a 6th-floor walk-up so that really put a kink in the schedule. You won't have this problem!

laurel livin large!

Oh god that was awful. The men were trucking along pretty well except for the fact that the THIRD guy, who I didn't want anyway (I only wanted two people but when they showed up they had 3 and said that they only allow 3-man crews on the 1st of the month etc) did nothing but stay with the truck and secure the things inside. I mean this doesn't take a whole other person to do so it was kind of a scam/waste.

But anyway they were hustling until they hit the walk-up and then WHAM by the time we got to our final dest, it was like the air was jello and everyone had slowed to a crawl.

The Third Man, however, was some kind of cheerful middle-aged but hard-bitten Russian biker who complimented me on my Frye boots and my hustle and when he tried to charge me some kind of extra fee at the end of the day I was like, "NO, IGOR. ABSOLUTELY NO FEE." and he laughed and didn't press the point. So basically they would have scammed me if I let them.

Oh my god. Can I just vent about something for a minute? We found a new apartment, got approved, and were set to move in Sept 1st. But the current tenants, who claimed they'd be out by Sept 1st at the latest, are now threatening to stay until October 1st, and their management refuses to do anything about it. Meanwhile our current lease expires Sept 1st. If they were definitely staying till Oct 1st, we'd be like, "Ok," call our landlord and tell him we're not renewing our lease but we're staying for another month. But the current tenants won't say if they're actually gonna leave Sept or Oct, and their landlord is like, "Well, if they leave Sept 1st, we don't want to have a month of no rent on that apartment," so they won't just put us down for Oct 1st. I guess they want to wait until the last possible minute before deciding when to move us in, but this is obviously incredibly inconvenient and now I have to tell my landlord, "Oh hey, maybe we'll be here next month but maybe we won't," all because it's basically children living in our future apartment who can't figure out when they're moving. ARGHFUCKFUCKFUCK.

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ridiculous. sorry to hear that, dude

Oh GROSS. So you basically have to call now and make an appt for movers and get READY to pack yr stuff but don't actually DO it, and act like you have to be 100% prepared to move in two weeks and then potentially call it all off.

Otoh, if you don't end up moving until October, at least you'll have everything on hand already...?

YUCK

Yeah, and luckily we can keep our books + winter clothing + stuff packed, and hopefully just leave the kitchen and current clothing until a few days before we move. But still, these people are such immature worthless fucks. Not to mention they refuse to return our phone calls or our email messages and then when we finally do get ahold of them, they're indignant that we dare ask them when they're moving out. (It's actually even worse. Apparently the wife is too cowed to deal with stuff like logistics and, "being a mensch," so now she won't even answer her phone and has her husband answer it for her -- not to paint all 20 year old married couples with the same brush, but seriously, try to act a little adult please? We're not mean people, we just want to know what your plans are for moving so that we know where we're living in two weeks.)

er your new landlord is the one who should be dealing with that shit

Yeah, I don't understand why they don't just get kicked out since you've agreed your lease so surely they have agreed to end theirs? Their (and soon to be your) landlord sounds like a dick, tbh.

Kicking out tenants isn't such a simple thing in NYC.

moving all this week, just bringing stuff the 300 yards to the new place, where i can store it all week. sorry for everyone else's hassle :(

fucking hell kill me now. ran out of boxes and movers are here in six hours. I suppose this isn't really a problem I just wanted to complain to someone other than my wife who is *this close* to breaking my neck.

get thee to a tesco for the boxes, other than that yeah moving's the worst

I am in the US, so Tesco is out. I did scrounge four boxes from a deli last night at midnight but they smell like frozen hashbrowns; the other part of this that was disturbing was learning that the deli buys frozen hashbrowns.

movers will bring some boxes but I can also move shit in the volvo tonight, which I'm sure I will do, multiple times.

i don't understand the 'but' in the first paragraph. the smell of frozen hashbrowns is always a plus

Liquor store if at all possib, they have great sized boxes for books & heavy things. Or somewhere like OfficeMax -- what do you think all those padded envelopes they sell COME in? Giant (clean!) cardboard boxen!

Or any UHaul or moving company office -- and probably personal storage facility offices too -- will sell brand new boxes for not too much.

the post office has free boxes

the post office charges us for boxes but has them

they are kind of small but they are free and you can just tell the post office person if he gives you trouble that you are a ebay powerseller

Plus all clothes, curtains, and soft furnishings can go in garbage bags, obv, saving the boxes for all non-textile things.

I did scrounge four boxes from a deli last night at midnight but they smell like frozen hashbrowns

I had a similar experience but with frozen octopus.

get thee to a tesco

missing lj tbh ;_;

In my experience, liquor stores are the only ones that will actually give you a box without any hassle; the others are like, "Well, we had some but we just broke them down/put them in the recycler/our manager won't let me give you a box." Dude, I'm not planning to live in this thing behind your store, I just need a box for packing.

I feel yr pain akm - day we moved back in April was easily most stressed I've been all year, included having to get an emergency electrician to uncouple our old cooker (easiest £60 he made all day) and then it still had to be hefted from old house to new.

Even with removers (2 men + van), myself, my brother and his van and my wife with the car it was still hours of backbreaking toil. I look at the boxes of books *still* piled and awaiting unpacking in the spare bedroom and feel a cold chill.

Good luck!

rly need to unpack my room tbh

missing lj tbh ;_;

Just a quick thread derail: I checked with him on his FB page and he says he's feeling better than he did last night, so hopefully he'll be back soon. Now back to the thread.

what a nightmare this was. it is all over but the unpacking now. and I'll have to do it again next summer. maybe by then we will have gotten rid of everything we own. it would be wise.

Packing now for a move this week. Not totally sure about my move-in date (a bunch of moving complicated pieces have made moving in a challenge) but I'm trying to pack as much as I can before the big day (which will probably be either next Monday, Tuesday or the following Sunday). I was bitching about moving at lunch with friends yesterday and someone mentioned that moving is considered the most stressful thing in a person's life next to divorce (!!!). Feels pretty accurate atm. Packed all my boxes, most of my dishes, and now I'm surveying all the shit we've accumulated in 4 years of living in this apartment and can't even wrap my mind around where it came from. I can't even invent categorical boxes to put stuff in. I'm getting to the point where it's gonna be like: Mrs Mordy's fencing trophy in the box with my xbox controllers, some knitting stuff, and candlesticks.

Moving this month after 4+ years at the same location. Am a bit paranoid about looking for moving boxes on craigslist because (1) you don't know what has been inside (2) it could contain a super strain of mutant bed bugs (3) it has been peed on whilst curbside. Therefore, I've concluded that getting rid of everything is the only reasonable answer to stranger pee and blood sucking parasites.

Also to anyone who has moved recently: any suggestions, tips, or advice?

in my state the liquor store has free boxes, just take em and no worries.
you could buy boxes from u-haul or staples or whoever, if you're worried

hey, not on my thread!

The evo system, 9:49 AM:
http://i.imgur.com/htq6ECL.jpg
10:59 AM:
http://i.imgur.com/MRIKBhJ.jpg

I feel bad that this is the only night he gets to spend in this arrangement.

http://i.imgur.com/aCcTEiA.jpg

nice! xp aww

i'm doing my first round tomorrow with 2 check-on bags. i threw out some clothes to get the bags to what felt like under 50 lbs. fingers crossed.

i have basically a box-worth of other stuff left. i'll figure that out in a week. this is easily the most minimal i've ever been in a move, like one step up from a backpack and a suitcase. no furniture. i feel proud somehow, even though it just means i threw out a lot of crap (again, for the third time in three years).

the boxes, my god the boxes. they just kept coming off the truck.

tomorrow is hang everything on the walls day. going to be searching for studs a lot.

rare earth magnets are totally the best way to find studs behind drywall btw

you just blew my mind

I'll be moving for the 3rd time this year in a couple of weeks hopefully. When we moved in here 2.5 months ago the lift was out of order and we're on the 4th/5th floor (5th/6th for Americans). It's been working since then but sod's law means it will likely break down again the day we move out. I am so sick of moving but the curse of 2016 won't let us find anywhere that isn't a total shithole.

The truck just left with our stuff. I'm on the train to meet them in the city. There was so much crap under things! The movers were probably horrified but at least it's easy to sweep now that everything is gone.

also the mover boss guy looks like the ice cream man from the Bangarang video

The unpacking and re-organizing process is always terrible. This week though we also had bonus in-laws hanging around to add stress and get in the way, and then on top of that we're getting to discover all the shit that's wrong and annoying with our new house. I'm ashamed of how much money the Container Store has made off of us this week.

today I installed

• new dishwasher
• medicine cabinet in main floor 1/2 bath
• bigger medicine cabinet, in the top floor master bath
• the big home entertainment thing, as seen above (SO MANY CABLES UGGGH)
• bigass magnetic whiteboard in the kitchen
• more Elfa shit

We move on Wednesday. Why are we doing this to ourselves?

dishwasher! no flies on tombot

i always hate the inevitable mail forwarding delay or snafu with the new post office when moving in.

and yeah, finding the new flaws, no matter how small, with your new place. Your roof could be falling apart in your old place but you've gotten accustomed to it, one crack or wobbly door in the new place is a NEW problem and "WHAT OTHER HORRORS WILL I DISCOVER??!!!"

re: unpacking, just do what I do and leave the shit sealed in boxes until your next move to where you go "what the fuck is INSIDE this thing?"

i got rid of so much junk that my last move took an hour. I mean loading and unloading.

Congrats Scik & family

Phew. Just got email from lettings agents we passed reference checks and will be moving out of our smack den in 2 weeks (assuming I can book removal men for that day).

I helped my friend move a bunch of stuff down and then up several flights of stairs. I always get this strange sense of melancholy when I move house. Going through a bit of a rough patch in my personal life at the moment and was surprised to find that even though it wasn't me who was moving house, I got that same odd empty feeling.
That first night when all your stuff's still packed away and you're sleeping on a blow-up bed or something and you're physically and mentally exhausted. It takes a while to pass..

. we're paying a company to move us (work subsidizes it somewhat) because, having moved like 4 times in the last 4 years, we really don't want to mess with dismantling furniture, lifting boxes, etc., again.

yea we when moved across several states this summer my new employer paid for movers. it was a goddamn miracle to see these dudes come in and dissemble everything and protect it all with furniture pads and load into a truck in a day. i still did the box-packing myself which wasn't too bad really -- having enough boxes is the key. you can't figure out how to shit unless you have enough boxes. fuck having to strategically pack shit because you don't have enough boxes. just get a ton even if you have to buy new ones.

btw libraries are fantastic sources for good sturdy standard boxes. we had to do craiglist for only a few boxes, and i was able to completely avoid bouncing around to liquor stores and all that bullshit

we're looking to buy a house soon so we'll be moving again some time next year. professional movers are expensive but at this point it think it is worth it.

That first night when all your stuff's still packed away and you're sleeping on a blow-up bed or something and you're physically and mentally exhausted. It takes a while to pass..

yea it is such a weird feeling

i felt kind of a buzz when i moved this year. i had been in my old place for like 8 years - i dreaded the day the landlord would sell even tho i knew it was coming, but then it came and i was lucky i guess to find a place with a friend really quickly. it was a hot summer weekend and the new place was bright and sunny - even with the boxes etc i was surprised how easy it felt, maybe not owning a place means it doesn't really dig its hooks in as much as you might imagine.

where did you move to lg

I love moving, so much novelty and promise, and it gives purpose to usual daily hassles like dishes and taking out the trash, because you slowly pack your stuff as you deal with these.

Movers packed our house today. Just bed, cot, and tv left pretty much. Tomorrow we move across town...

Moved! Reasonably settled. Despite being december it was 16 degrees on Wednesday so we had the massive doors to the garden open all afternoon, which was awesome. Shut forever now the cats are back from my parents, though...

And oh god I'd pay to be packed every time.

Congratulations. Please log all complaints here.

Strange items the movers packed:

1. Empty jar of sundried tomato paste that hadn't made it to the recycling centre.
2. Jar full of cat fur that I combed off the cats last summer, made a joke about, and then forgot existed.
3. Weird ventilation brick I put on a radiator once to dry out and then forhgot about.