(Barely) Moving
I will never, ever, ever, ever, EVER not hire movers again. EVER. In fact, from now on, I may hire movers to entirely pack up all my stuff and move it while I retreat with my children to a beach resort for a couple of days. It’s a damn shame that I can’t hire movers to unpack and set it all up and then cook us a nice dinner as well because I would do that too.
The one wise decision I made with regard to moving was to move and immediately unpack all of our kitchen, bathroom and clothes items before I started moving anything else. That allowed us to live in relative snack-toilet-paper-and-underwear-having comfort while the rest of the move dragged on and on and on and on.
Did I mention that I will never again move without movers?
The biggest problem is that I have some large items of furniture that are currently living in my garage, that really need to elevate themselves up one or two flights of stairs. And these items are things like bookcases and heavy wooden toy storage and are thus required before any of those smaller items can be placed inside them, which means that none of that shit can be put away until I improve my levitation skills, hook up a pulley system outside my balcony window, or grow myself some massive muscles and maybe an extra, really long arm.
Actually no, that’s not even the biggest problem because I could theoretically slowly and carefully maneuver those items up my stairs and I wouldn’t even gouge huge dents into my walls (small dents, but not huge ones). The real biggest problem is that although I initially moved items up the stairs and into their intended homes, eventually time started getting short and I just shoved things into my garage. And of course, since I moved the most useful items first and the least useful items last, and since at the very end I was just shoving items into any space where they’d fit in my damned garage, every access to the point the garage is now dammed up with useless crap (kiddie pool and portable air conditioner anyone?) leaving me unable to access anything I actually want without unpacking the whole damned room.
Moving with movers is so much easier. Why did I not hire movers?? Both times I’ve hired movers I was entirely unpacked that same day!! Given the current state of things, I should be entirely unpacked right around the time my lease runs out.
March 4th, 2009 at 2:14 am
Hire “movers” now. It would only take a couple of big guys a little while to do this and everyone wants $. We found moonlighting movers on craigslist with very good results.
March 4th, 2009 at 6:06 am
We helped my sister move on Saturday and I said the same thing. I agree with what Deirdre is saying. Post on Craigslist and find yourself some strapping young men who will come haul your big things up stairs for $100. totally worth it.