Moving

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.