I moved on my own and moving sucks

[freedom_in_4low]

I used to move myself but I had a corporate paid, out of state move (Oklahoma to Colorado) in 2016 and I've been hiring it out to some degree ever since.

2019 we handled all the small stuff and boxes and let movers get the furniture in a move of about 5 miles.
2020 we let the movers get the furniture and a lot of boxes to move about 30 miles
2021 we packed and had the movers get everything to move back to Oklahoma from Colorado
and we'll move again in 2022, about 12 miles, from this rental to the house we're building. Will probably do something similar to our other local moves.

I hated moving to begin with, but after 3 moves in 3 years i hate it even more.

 

[Mhass]

Hate moving. Next time Imma burn it in place and start over.

 

[suicideking]

Moving definitely is the worst, very stressful. My last move was about a mile away. Though my wife and I have 3 kids, so they make it more of a pain since they were all under 10. To make things worse, our old house sold too quickly, so we were homeless for two weeks. We had to move everything to storage, then out of storage. We did hire movers.

Luckily my wife has an aunt that let us all live with her for the two weeks. Still a giant pain in the ass.

 

[matkal]

I hate the thought of moving especially since being in the house since 1997. I have 11 Fish tanks from 20 Gals up too 125 and 7 are on a central filtration system. The killer is wife wants a northern and southern house in retirement, how do keep fish in that scenario???
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Zip-locs?

 

[cliffish]

Zip-locs?

not with the size of my fish...hell the albino channel catfish in my pond is at least 36"

 

[03coloradowrangler]

Hide a bed couches are the WORST!
I’m going to be making a trip to Harbor Frieght soon, maybe I can pic up the sub then?Jeeze….I just read the first post…..I really appreciate you saving the sub!
Another plus: you’re WAY closer to the good wheeling!

I believe I will be down your way at some point this weekend. I’ve got to return some mailbox keys which one is with me and another down by clarkston in my pickup. I’ve been seriously eyeballing one of them $320 tool boxes at harbor freight which is problematical because it’s really close locally to get cheap tools on the fly now. I’ll reach out this weekend. I am maybe a half hour from the gladwin trail head now Still not too sure what all is near by but definitely less time on the road to get to the trails now. Better imo now that I’ll have the option for daytime exploring at my convenience rather than weekend planning.

EVERY TIME I'VE MOVED I've said, "Eff this... Next time, I'm hiring someone".

Considered, but I’m cautiously broke $ and cheap. Definitely tossed some stuff so I won’t have to touch something that’s been sitting around in the future.

We're in the process of moving now. We hired a couple of guys to come and pick up our already packed boxes and put them on the truck. Its money well spent

I really should have gone and got free boxes from the grocery store. I used plastic totes and only had so many. Started dumping stuff to return for second load with empty totes.

I hate the thought of moving especially since being in the house since 1997. I have 11 Fish tanks from 20 Gals up too 125 and 7 are on a central filtration system. The killer is wife wants a northern and southern house in retirement, how do keep fish in that scenario???
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Very nice. Might not seem like much to her I’m sure but it’s a peaceful hobby. Ultimately it may just turn out that someone gets a killer deal on some used equipment. It’s sad the amount of effort and time that goes into it and you eventually have to part ways.

It always amazes me how much folks will pay to move or store some broken/worn out furniture, or a set of bar glasses that haven't been out of the cabinet in over 5 years.
I used to have a local storage unit for holiday decorations, camping gear, etc. but once I did the math and realized I was paying 2-3X more to store that shit than it would cost to replace it, it all went into the dumpster.
I can't wait to move out of our current place and I can get rid of half of this shit.

That hide a couch I cut up with the sawzall I was in possession of for 6 years… of that 6 years I’d say about 5 different people sat on it and I may have sat on it myself about 10 times. Too firm for my preference. No sense in relocating something that large and heavy just to store it in the way again.

Evidentially the movers in CA realize everyone is moving out of state with a bunch of cash from the house sale, so they are racking up the bills.

Aunt moved from California to Michigan and paid some astronomically high price for the whole packing shipping and unloading into the new house. There’s money to be made but no way in hell I’d be up for that line of work.

moving does suck, but it sucks less if you plan ahead and actually pack before moving day

Assume you're single and no kids, so I do remember doing that a few times. But now it would be impossible.

FWIW, my move this summer from Monument, CO to Edmond, OK ended up costing about $6k. $4800 for the movers with a 26', $400 to rent an enclosed 12' Uhaul trailer, and $700 to rent a Suburban at the last possible minute when we still had a few things left when the truck and trailer were full.

I don't count the $1000 it took to move our stuff out of a storage unit a month later because that was just a consequence of the 2021 housing market not making things easy.

Partially packed before but needed more room to pick second load. I managed to luck out with the bosses truck and trailer and just about $160 in diesel fuel which was covered by the income donations from my old coworker and buddy who felt bad taking all my aquarium stuff off my hands. Initially I figured I’d only have one kid but once furniture went in the trailer there was no way I’d get it all in.

We recently moved - all the way across the country in fact. Having moved (locally) a few times, you can definitely accumulate some shit. We are faaaaaaar from "hoarders" and I throw stuff away, donate clothes/kid stuff regularly, and generally am super well organized.

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That said, it took us MONTHS of cleaning, preparing and packing to fit everything into this 20' U-haul (we didn't take any furniture) and there wasn't a lick of space to put a postage stamp when we finally closed the door. We even had to put our luggage in the LJ each morning! I ended up giving a bunch of stuff away - things I was "hoping" to keep but was okay with donating. A few of my Jeeping buddies in AZ got a lot of welding gear, scrap metal, 3-ton jacks, etc. - which I was more than happy to give as a "thank you" for their time and energy in the 110º weather as we were doing the final "load up".

We ended up doing it ourselves - though I had lots of help in AZ (thanks to good buds like @starkey480 willing to lend a hand!) and once we got to PA. We wanted to hire movers, but the shortest window we could find was a 2-4 week pickup time and a 2-4 week drop off time - potentially not having our stuff for 8 weeks. In the end, it still cost a heavy chunk of $$$ (about $6000 in total between the rental, gas, hotels, etc) but was still 1/2 the cost of professionals (again, not that cost was the driving factor here).

I definitely didn’t have any goodies like welding stuff and scrap (which I’m sure I’d have a use for). Lead times are definitely a problem with everything. This new place came upon me abruptly and I wasn’t too awfully ready yet. I’m also more of a last minute kind of person. Had a few offered for help moving but I’m too stubborn to take the offer.

When we moved from our last house 20 years ago, we filled 1/3 of the semi. I asked the guy the biggest move he did and he said 3 semis.

I thought that was nuts, but 20 years more of accumulating crap and it makes more sense. I'm probably up to 2/3 of a load now.

Thankfully, it was paid for by the company and close enough I was hauling stuff each weekend to the temp company apartment.

My parents and brother moved
in the last couple years. They didn't pack for shit and it made the moves harder. But they only moved 10 and 3 miles and we had my brothers big ass enclosed trailers.

The gun safe was the worst.

My gun safe was pretty bad too. More of a document safe but it’s definitely 2x2x2’ and heavier than all hell. Carried that down 3 flights of steps myself, was a struggle. Nowhere near as bad as the 8x2x4’ filing cabinets at work were though to move up one stairway and down another. I think there’s a steel plate in the bottom of them maybe 3” thick and the rest was rock solid steel.

Moving definitely is the worst, very stressful. My last move was about a mile away. Though my wife and I have 3 kids, so they make it more of a pain since they were all under 10. To make things worse, our old house sold too quickly, so we were homeless for two weeks. We had to move everything to storage, then out of storage. We did hire movers.

Luckily my wife has an aunt that let us all live with her for the two weeks. Still a giant pain in the ass.

Been running into the prior home selling too quick with the new home owners buying the homes at work. One lived in a camper for several months, another is living with daughter and 4 grandkids. Lead times on materials is making the dates push further and further out for when the keys can be handed out. Home owner gets a rough estimated date but the time slips past easily now. One lived in a hotel for 2 months and just kept everything in storage until keys arrived.

 

[03coloradowrangler]

Also got no internet yet at this new place. So I’m a little behind on this thread, as well as the fact that I still got so much more to do yet.

Got groceries last night and had a real dinner. Fixed a squeak in a subfloor right in the hallway of the entry that drove me insane.

Got my neglected oil change done tonight on the jeep out of the wind inside the garage. Picked up a oil filter wrench, funnel & oil catch pan on the way home from work. Was pleasantly surprised to see the drain pan was made in the USA.

Mostly been lingering on the couch. Too tired from work and about a week of moving in my spare time.

 

[williambmac]

My last move was back in 2002. We left an apartment in Princeton and moved to into a townhome about 50 miles away.
The move itself wasn't all that bad, We tossed a lot of stuff and were able to fit the remainder in a 15' Uhaul.
The part that did suck was the closing date got pushed back a week. The current owners let us fill the empty garage with our belongings. After we closed and started moving our stuff in, my wife noticed a lot boxes of her stuff missing. It was her shoe collection, boxes of really expensive bra and panties and boxes of perfume.
A police report was filed and they investigated but couldn't come up with nothing.
Several months later my wife saw some of her stuff being sold on Craigslist. She contacted the police again.
The woman was arrested and charged with grand theft because my wife provided receipts for over 10k for just the shoes.

 

[WestCoastDan]

My last move was back in 2002. We left an apartment in Princeton and moved to into a townhome about 50 miles away.
The move itself wasn't all that bad, We tossed a lot of stuff and were able to fit the remainder in a 15' Uhaul.
The part that did suck was the closing date got pushed back a week. The current owners let us fill the empty garage with our belongings. After we closed and started moving our stuff in, my wife noticed a lot boxes of her stuff missing. It was her shoe collection, boxes of really expensive bra and panties and boxes of perfume.
A police report was filed and they investigated but couldn't come up with nothing.
Several months later my wife saw some of her stuff being sold on Craigslist. She contacted the police again.
The woman was arrested and charged with grand theft because my wife provided receipts for over 10k for just the shoes.

If my wife ever owned over $10K in shoes, she would be single.

 

[MaximusLJR06]

If my wife ever owned over $10K in shoes, she would be single.

Agreed!!

 

[pc1p]

If my wife ever owned over $10K in shoes, she would be single.

My wife has this much tied up in a handful of purses... and I couldn't care less

We make good money, but live well within our means, have a well-funded savings and retirement fund, and generally do stuff with a budget in mind (even if they are expensive - why waste money right?).

Many of us have this much in firearms and many more of us have multiple times this in Jeeps. People get enjoyment in different things

 

[williambmac]

If my wife ever owned over $10K in shoes, she would be single.

I can't really say that.
It's a two way street, she never once gave me shit for dropping 20k on a motor for my race car or buying a Harley. Or all the $$$ I have tied up in my Jeep.

 

[williambmac]

My wife has this much tied up in a handful of purses... and I couldn't care less

We make good money, but live well within our means, have a well-funded savings and retirement fund, and generally do stuff with a budget in mind (even if they are expensive - why waste money right?).

Many of us have this much in firearms and many more of us have multiple times this in Jeeps. People get enjoyment in different things

I forgot about all the $$$$ I have tied up in firearms and ammo.

 

[freedom_in_4low]

I can't really say that.
It's a two way street, she never once gave me shit for dropping 20k on a motor for my race car or buying a Harley. Or all the $$$ I have tied up in my Jeep.

touche

 

[pc1p]

I forgot about all the $$$$ I have tied up in firearms and ammo.

When I was competing regularly, I was shooting ~12,000 rounds a year (for about 4 years). Even with reloads, it adds up quickly. Never mind the firearms themselves, maintenance, gear, backup equipment, etc.

I can't really say that.
It's a two way street, she never once gave me shit for dropping 20k on a motor for my race car or buying a Harley. Or all the $$$ I have tied up in my Jeep.

Back in 2012 when I told the Mrs. that I was thinking it was time to buy a new Harley, her first and only question was "what color you getting?"...

 

[astjp2]

I hate the thought of moving especially since being in the house since 1997. I have 11 Fish tanks from 20 Gals up too 125 and 7 are on a central filtration system. The killer is wife wants a northern and southern house in retirement, how do keep fish in that scenario???
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Fillets in the freezer? Or hire someone