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Moving sucks

minendo

minendo

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Moving in a week to the Houston area and have yet to find a place to live. I start my new job on Monday the 10th and have to basically wing it until my wife and daughter move in June after school ends. This sucks, but hopefully I can find a decent place.
 
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minendo said:
Moving in a week to the Houston area and have yet to find a place to live. I start my new job on Monday the 10th and have to basically wing it until my wife and daughter move in June after school ends. This sucks, but hopefully I can find a decent place.
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Use Pods to move. They can store them for you. This lets you live in an extended stay hotel and gives you ample time to find a house instead of rushing it.
 
We've never moved out of the area and I even found that a bit of a pain in the ass. Whenever I have to go through shit I know will suck, I just tune it out, don't think about it and just do it. It's the only way to keep the little sanity I have.
 
Yes it does. When I was younger, moving was no big deal. Throw some stuff in a couple of boxes...then into the back of my pick-up...and go.

Nowadays...it's a major undertaking. When we left California in 2012, after being in our house for about 13 years, we had 5 major yard sales to reduce the load...sold furniture, tools, and a fuck-ton of misc. stuff. I still could barely close the door on the biggest truck U-haul has to offer. (and the truck was almost 2 tons over-weight...😱 )
Put it all into storage until we found a temporary apartment...while we found a new place to live, then, had to move it all again.
 
You have my sympathies. Moving is awful and doing it on short notice or a tight deadline is pure torture. Just keep telling yourself that if you can get through moving you can handle anything.

What part of Houston are you looking in?
 
BoomerD said:
Yes it does. When I was younger, moving was no big deal. Throw some stuff in a couple of boxes...then into the back of my pick-up...and go.

Nowadays...it's a major undertaking. When we left California in 2012, after being in our house for about 13 years, we had 5 major yard sales to reduce the load...sold furniture, tools, and a fuck-ton of misc. stuff. I still could barely close the door on the biggest truck U-haul has to offer. (and the truck was almost 2 tons over-weight...😱 )
Put it all into storage until we found a temporary apartment...while we found a new place to live, then, had to move it all again.
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Ain't that the truth!

We moved twice in the last 4 years, from GA to Cape Cod and then Cape cod to SC. The first move was after spending over 20 years in one location....and had to be done rather quickly. After a couple of yard sales, we still ended up giving crap away to get rid of it.

And on the move back down south 3 years later, we still had to pare down a bit....but not as badly for our stuff. But the wife's dad's crap....we ended up giving a shit ton of his stuff away. This was a 50 year accumulation of a semi-hoarder. We ended up renting a 20 cu.yd. roll-off to dispose of the accumulated crap. (Well, actually we rented 3 of them, 2 when we arrived, one when we left.)

Hate moving.
 
I can't imagine moving at this point. I put so much work into the house and have so much stuff. Moving my server stuff alone would be a huge undertaking and putting everything back in service even more.

Moving from my parent's was not as bad though, I did not have as much stuff and I had no time restraint to move it all.

If ever I had to move chances are I'd keep the house but rent it out, the server room would be off limits and I'd still host backups there or something and it would still do the home automation stuff.
 
Moving is nature's way of pointing out that one has too much crap. Unfortunately the lesson is only learned six months after one moves and then forgotten before the next time one moves.
 
I hired movers one time. I spent more time dealing with them than it would have taken to do it myself.
 
I like to do the small stuff ourselves and hire a bonded and insured mover for the big stuff. I always let them know whats valuable and overinflate the cost of some of the antiques so I know they are careful. I have only had to turn in a few claims over 20 years of moving for work.
 
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