Moving and packing

[SPKrazy]

really sucks... sometimes more than others...

:(


:hi:

[Midlodemocrat]

1. This will make you feel better.

My friend just moved from here to Chicago. She's a hoarder. It took eight packers four full days and two trucks to pack up her crap.

The house is about 3000 square feet, so we're not talking Aaron Spelling here.

See? I knew you would feel better.

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

2. ha, yeah, that would suck

not a hoarder

and it's more the situation than the packing, but i hate the packing too and the moving...

:hug:

thanks

[Midlodemocrat]

3. Six packers an entire afternoon to pack up her daughter's closet.

I can continue this all day.

[DS1]

13. I could throw everything I own in the back of a van in 60 minutes or less

After a few moves which were chronologically close together, I started living light.

[SPKrazy]

14. I can appreciate that mode of thinking...

I'm on a 20 year accumulation of stuff, and packing is hard as it involves figuring out what is "mine", and getting to the point that I don't care if it is or not.

Just need to get shit out

[Midlodemocrat]

19. I couldn't get all of BabyMidlo's stuffed animals in my van in

60 minutes or less. Pre-kids, I didn't have a lot, but since my mom and dad died, I inherited a lot of stuff from them that I want to someday pass on to the kids.

Just the day to day accumulation drives me crazy sometimes, especially once school starts again. Papers. Papers. More papers.

And, your brother is hot. Not as hot as you, but hot nonetheless.

[NMDemDist2]

4. it is a pain, but a great way to go through all the crap

and get rid of all the stuff you haven't used in years

I kid you not, we had boxes in the garage in PHX that we had moved from Cali 9 years prior that had never been opened!

we took 5 trailer loads to the dump and managed to get our entire life into a 26' Uhaul....

[SPKrazy]

5. thinning down isn't a bad deal at all

in fact, I'd walk away from a lot of this stuff, and am trashing a lot as I go.

[NMDemDist2]

12. it's amazing how much 'stuff' we aquire isn't it?

I look and wonder 'What was I thinking, saving this??"

good luck with the move, I'm sure it's bittersweet to say the least....

:hug:

[Midlodemocrat]

6. Thinning down is awesome and so freeing.

I don't even have a real 'storage' place in my house anymore. When we finished the attic, one room was to be a storage room, but my son had to move into it when my FIL moved in and took his room.

Enter the dumpster in the driveway. So freeing to get rid of all that junk that just clutters up your life. And Goodwill made out like bandits as well.

Flylady.net is great for folks who have a clutter issue and one thing I read there years ago has stayed with me. If you have an object that doesn't bring you joy as you look at it, dust it, whatever, but insteads brings you down, get rid of it.

I loved that advice and have lived by it ever since. I don't buy anything unless I absolutely love it and will treasure it and it makes straightening up and cleaning far less of a chore.

[SPKrazy]

7. thanks

i will be out of here and i will be thinned out...

most of the stuff is staying here..

[Midlodemocrat]

9. Oh, no.

Not what I meant at all. I was talking to AZDem.

:hug:

I'm sorry for your pain. I was just trying to make you feel better with my story about my hoarding friend.

[SPKrazy]

11. i know

thanks

:hug:

[NMDemDist2]

8. it's a big part of Feng Shui too. Flylady is correct, if you don't love it

toss it

[SPKrazy]

10. well flylady

is fine

but i'm not into flylady...

i toss it if i don't need it

but i have stuff that i need to toss too

:hi:

[Zookeeper]

18. Hey, AZ. Now I feel better about...

the boxes I just unpacked from our move *five* years ago. (Not much better, though, since I've still got a house full of stuff I don't need.)

[NMDemDist2]

21. LOL! aren't we silly critters??

it is a rule that our 'stuff' expands to fill our space!

[SPKrazy]

55. isn't that the case

a lot?

i mean having a houseful of stuff one doesn't need is just sort of expected I thought?
:shrug:

[GenDem]

15. It must be awfully hard.....

but the healing will soon begin and you will go from moving objects and things physically, to moving on emotionally, too.



:hug:

[SPKrazy]

23. thanks gendem

:hug:

yeah, right now they physical just kicked my butt :P

not to even mention the emotional

:hi:

[fizzgig]

16. ...

:hug:

i'm thinking about you today, i hope you are ok

[SPKrazy]

24. thanks friend!

I'm making it

my bed just kicked my ass :P

:hug:

:hi:

[fizzgig]

36. mean old bed

you want i should kick its ass?

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

37. i wish you could

:hug:

[fizzgig]

38. me too

how you doing?

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

42. meh, okay

tired...

feeling that living out of boxes feeling already

that will last a few days

:hug:

[fizzgig]

45. be good to yourself, sweetie

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

53. that i shall

that i shall

:hug:

[Zookeeper]

17. I wish I could help....

Hopefully, this will be the hardest part of the transition.

My thoughts are with you today, friend.

:pals: :hug:

[SPKrazy]

25. thanks zookeeper

I need some thoughts :P

mine are on the fritz I think :hi:

:hug:

[Whoa_Nelly]

20. Sorry it's a hard thing to do...

Hang in there.

Call if you want. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

26. thanks Nelly

I'm just glad that time isn't moving really really slow right now :P

:hug:

thanks ;)

[Whoa_Nelly]

28. Am sure time is too slow for you at the moment

and too fast all at the same time. :hug:

[SPKrazy]

32. well put...

:hug:

[lost-in-nj]

22. Sorry you have to do this.....

I hope that you will feel better soon...
I promise it does get better a little more each day....


Make sure you lift boxes the right way!!!


:hug: :loveya:


lost

[SPKrazy]

27. thanks lost...

the boxes are a cinch, well pretty much anyway :P

I appreciate your hugs and words

:hug:

:loveya:

:hi:

[malta blue]

29. It really does...

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

31. hey you...

:hug:

[hippywife]

30. ...

[SPKrazy]

33. thanks HW!

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

34. Hey you

:hug:

I both envy you and don't envy you.

[SPKrazy]

35. hey friend

:hug:

yeah, double edged sword...

:hi:

[Gormy Cuss]

39. It's just something that you need to get through, sweetie.

Yeah it sucks for you and I wish that it didn't.
:hug:

[SPKrazy]

41. thanks...

i know

it is better at the moment

thanks

:hug:

[krispos42]

40. During my split

The ex fled to neighboring Minnesota with the kid. We weren't sure what her parents (may they burn in Hell) were going to do next. They were/are fundies and had already made two attempts to either keep us from moving, one involving false accusations of child neglect.

She had to leave very fast, 6am Saturday morning.

That left me with the job of packing up the entire house and moving it into a U-Haul.

In the middle of July.

And I had a raging summer cold with a fever.


THAT was how we fled South Dakota. And during the packing, I had to spend 4 hours in jail. Her parents saw the moving truck and called the police on the only thing they could call me on: a two-year-old warrant for a bounced $21 check.

The police thought it was so ridiculous that one of the officers went to the ATM for me to get my bond money!


At least there weren't any stairs involved.

[lost-in-nj]

43. ....

:hug: :hug:

I can not for the life of me
understand how people can be so
shallow.....

can not grasp it
I have never felt that way

retribution is a horrible thing


lost

[krispos42]

47. Well, it get's worse

My ex apparently has 'forgiven' them, and Sam (our son) visits on a regular basis. In fact, he's out there now for the SD State Fair.

These same ex-in-laws that tried to get her declared mentally incompetent after she had an affair and decided she wanted to divorce me.

So, her parents should have been my natural ally in trying to keep things together. After all, I was in love (still) and we had just brought a baby into the world 9 months ago.

Instead... well, instead I have what I shall only refer to as "black thoughts" about them.


I think the fever was a blessing in disguise because it made me so miserable I just didn't care and didn't worry about stuff, I just did it. Couches, beds, tables, chairs, boxes... all into the truck. No thinking, and I don't remember it particulary well.

Thanks for the hugs. I've been doing pretty well the last year or so.

<sigh>

[NC_Nurse]

44. Yep. Every time as I recall.

We just moved after 7 years in the same house.
Downsized to a house about half the size. It hasn't been pretty.
We've sold stuff, thriftshopped stuff and dumped stuff at the dump....
and I STILL have stuff to go through.
:-(
:hi:

[SPKrazy]

49. yeah,

that is a hassle

:hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. My dear Southpawkicker...

Aw, sweetie...

I'm sorry I cannot help you...

Words on a screen ...that's all I am right now...

But my thoughts and heart are with you...

:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[SPKrazy]

48. My Dear California Peggy

words on a screen are important you know..

:hug:

:loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

50. I know, SPK...

:hug: It really does suck. :hug: :pals: I hope it goes quickly, though. :) I'm sorry it came to that, but moving out is for the best, I'm sure. :)

:D :loveya:

[SPKrazy]

51. hey NWC!

good to see you!

:hug: :hug:

you okay?

:loveya:

[NewWaveChick1981]

52. Good to see you too, SPK!

:hi: :) I've been better. I've got some viral crud, and it's knocked me out. I hope the move goes OK for you! :D

[SPKrazy]

54. yucko crud

boo

been there done that recently...

:hug:

thanks, i think it is as well as can be...