We’ve got several glibs moving this year – Tundra, Animal, robc, SP & OMWC. I’m hoping to move in a few years, as are a few other people.
What’s your best moving story? Worst?
What is your best advice for moving? Did you move yourself or hire movers?
What did you get rid of, and what did you keep? Any regrets?
We’ve been in our current house for 23 years. Currently house hunting for something bigger/newer.
We hired movers, mostly because of the distance and the complications of moving stuff through Canuckistan. It was worth it. Everything was well-packed and carefully transported, so we have very minimal breakage.
But yeah, use the opportunity to really filter what you absolutely have to keep. We brought almost no furniture, but we have a fair amount of heirloom stuff – my Dad’s paintings and various family keepsakes – that we had to keep. Most of the younger folks here are likely to be trading up into more space, but Mrs. Animal and I moved into a house that’s less than half the size of the one we’re selling and it’s a job figuring out where we’re going to put everything. Fortunately we have tons of external storage.
And yes, it’s great to move to a mostly-free state.
Did you pack, or did you have the movers pack?
We had the movers pack. While this was mostly necessary because I was in AK while Mrs. A carried most of the burden of getting stuff on the road up here from CO, we later appreciated it when we saw the quality of packing done. Example: All of my German beer glasses made the move with zero breakage. Ditto for my Mom’s cherished, 100+ year old milk-glass candy dishes, cups and so forth.
I wouldn’t have done that good a job, mostly just from ignorance. Sometimes it’s just worth it to hire pros.
And amazingly fast.
Another tip: don’t agree to the beer and pizza deal if you have a bad back. Also, don’t ask anyone with a bad back for help moving, at least not more than one large object.
Tulip, you left out Ozy.
Roger that. The only downside to having the movers pack is they pack everything, and you lose an opportunity to filter stuff you don’t want/need anymore. You can pick that up on the back end, of course, but still. . . .
Yeah, they’ll wrap and pack anything. Toilet brush, plastic fast-food cups…
Speaking of tips, tip heavily. Looks like a hard job even for young whippersnappers.
From a financial advice guy I read:
“Moving is the toughest job in the world. Buy them lunch, buy them Gatorade, and tip generously at the end. Maybe even tip at the beginning.”
Although I should note I refused to tip guys who worked for a transportation company that I hired to move me one time. As I’m watching them unload the truck, they broke a leg off a small table, then stacked up boxes which proceeded to topple over. One guy saw this happened and shrugged.
When they finished the same guy came to me and said, “well we normally get tipped about 10%.” I looked at him and said, “sorry, I have no cash on me.”
Oh yes, lunch and sodas too.
Yeah, we’re doing a little of that. What the hell, we’re donating a lot of crap that someone in the Valley will use.
I will address this comment to the gentlemen of these here parts: if you love your wife and value your marriage, pay the movers to pack. That is all.
Moved a bunch first few years we were married, but now we’ve settled down in a spot we like.
As near as I can figure every single time I’ve made a big move then it’s been raining.
I believe that’s as mandatory as paying your friends in pizza and beer.
I’ve somehow managed to move during record setting heat waves.
My most memorable moving story is moving a friend of mine. His brother puts the mattress in the bed of his pickup but doesn’t secure it. The proceeds to drive like a maniac on the Dan Ryan expressway during moderate-to-heavy traffic. I didn’t try to keep up with him and thank goodness – the mattress goes airborne and I can see the whole thing from about 1/8 mile away – some poor sap drives right onto it and once all four wheels got on the mattress the car stops moving. I have no idea how he could have possibly gotten out of that mess, just glad it wasn’t me.
I used to work on trash trucks, and the mattresses used get wound up in the driveshafts. Saw like three of those. Used bolt cutters to snip the wires and dig it all out. Have no idea why it was so prevalent. The other one was couches jamming the front loaders. That one took big assed sledgehammers to break the frames.
Hire movers. It makes such a difference. No more trying to wrangle friends, who seem to always have something else going on that day, less stress, no sore back, the list is endless. Watching a parade of strong backs and weak minds shuffle my 47 case’s of books upstairs is a thing on pure joy.
You can probably get away with moving yourself/having friends help in your 20s. When you reach 30, hire movers.
Why is it that anyone who wants people to make their own decision about being vaccinated is “anti-vax”, but anyone who wants people to make their own decision about getting an abortion is “pro-choice”?
The Bee beat you to that thought, of course.
I am sure Snopes will debunk that.
Not notthebee?
“Harlem Globetrotters movers” Geico ad on that article. Heh.
Advice:
Hire movers it’s worth every penny
Don’t help friends move because they’ll never pay it back.
I moved here in September last year, hopefully the last move I ever make. I brought what fit in my van, and left everything else behind.
And i’m not looking back,
When we moved here, we did it ourselves. The big truck we had reserved somehow wasn’t available, so we had to use a smaller truck and multiple trips 30 minutes each way.
You never know how much stuff you have until you move it. Even little things that are outside. Hoses, garden decorations, flower pots, all that stuff has to be moved. And even if you move into a bigger space, somehow your stuff stretches to fill up that space in no time.
I’m not a big fan of moving and I hope to not do it again if possible.
Boy, I can agree with that. I told Mrs. Animal, the only way I’m leaving this place is in a body bag.
Yeah, that’s what Mrs. JI said about our current place. Unfortunately, I don’t see this as the place I want to spend the rest of my life. This presents some difficulties.
We reached that place 30 years ago, the last trip out of the yard will be 1 way.
I’ve moved several times myself but with a minimal amount of stuff. Now we are busy trying to cut back on “stuff”. A number of times the pros did it and the taxpayer paid.
I stopped counting my moves at 50. Not the age of 50, the number of moves. And that was many years ago.
This one we had the scratch after our home sale to hire pros to do it all. Boy, that beats the shit out of having to pack and move an entire house yourself!
We’re awash in half-opened boxes now, but wife managed to find some young couple moving who came and got a ton of our empty boxes over the last two days, so that helped.
I’m with Animal that the more you can pare down pre-move, the better – BUT I also would suggest that unpacking should also be used as an opportunity to further exercise Marie Kondo’s advice and get rid of more.
Live in the present. You and your shit will be gone in short order. You only have now. Let your legacy be that everyone who knew you has only fond memories of every moment they got to be around you. It’s not easy, but it’s not as unobtainable as…certain Marvel metals.
the more you can pare down pre-move, the better
The more often you move the better you get at not hoarding. I’m not much of a pack rat anyway. The best reason to have movers do everything is the reduction of bickering with the spouse. Moving is stressful enough. It was easy-peazy as kid because it was all on the taxpayer’s dime.
I feel sad when I see moving trucks in military housing (daily). The Navy took my baby away when I was a kid.
“The Navy took my baby away when I was a kid”
Country Song? WW2?
Heh.
A nice girl friend when I was about ten, actually.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qx0zeMbLOCY
(Didn’t mean to sound solipsistic there; I feel worse for the military brats.)
Apparently, the movers really do pack everything.
?
“Don’t worry, we do put air holes in there.”
USPS used to
Yeah, but it was fun when the moving-in truck showed up. The new kids are here, the new kids are here!
I use Craigslist to get rid of Mt Boxmore.
1) PODS. I’ll never move any other way unless Im getting reimbursed for the movers.
2) Purge before packing.
3) i like to keep a manifest. Each box gets a number, a list of contents, and a destination room. All of that information gets placed in a notebook. No more second night frantic searching for “that one box with the saucepot”. Reference notebook, find box number, open box.
PODS, when I priced it for my last move, didn’t really save me much for the amount of work I was still required to do. And if you need them to hold it at all, they can really eat up the difference fast.
We looked into PODS. They don’t deliver out to where we live now.
If you’re doing a traditional pack up in one day, offload in one day move, PODS doesn’t really add anything.
We’ve used the ability to have the container sit for a while to our advantage. Took us 2 containers to move last time, and we filled one over a week and then filled the second one over another week as the selling process happened. Moving day consisted of cramming a few last minute essentials in the back of the container and sealing it up. Offloading was much faster, but it was nice to do it at our own pace instead of being on the clock.
It did get pricey because we had to hold the containers until we found a house down here and signed our lease, but I don’t know how easy to set up and much that would’ve cost for traditional movers to hold onto some/all of the contents for 2+ weeks on either end of the move. PODS is particularly equipped for that exact situation.
One of the Callahan’s books had an interesting method for packing. You know where the shit in your house is now. So pack around the edge of the room, and label the boxes with things like Kitchen – Above Sink, then you know where the items were.
31 years in the military… Moved 13 times. First three times I was a single man and could fit all my shit into my car.
But I’ve moved my entire household myself 3X, once from Ft Knox KY to Ft Irwin CA. Moving yourself is a young man’s work. And being young you tend to have cheap shit that you don’t mind tearing up.
Don’t move shit you don’t want. Moving yourself makes this an easier task.
Be there to watch the packers pack. Make them unpack at the other end.
Kitchen is the worst room of the house.
Sorry to go OT but I want to apologize in advance for not being able to answer questions during this evening’s article. It drops at 7pm Central, I’m Eastern, and that’s too late for me to be somewhere with Internet access. Y’all will probably be zooming anyway.
Are you moving?
What’s your best moving story? Worst?
I tend to block out any memories of moving.
What is your best advice for moving? Did you move yourself or hire movers?
When I was poor, I moved myself or plied friends with liquor. The last couple moves I hired a mover and the next one I plan to hire a packer too. Because I hate moving that much.
What did you get rid of, and what did you keep? Any regrets?
One time I dumped all my music on physical media. Don’t regret it at all. It’s been eight years and most of the crap I will dump next time is still sitting in boxes unpacked from the last time. Plus a lot of kitchen crap I replaced over the years.
I’d like to say we’ll never move again, but I can see having to downsize and move to get cash out of this place to try to offset inflation.
Re: the discussion in the previous thread about how easy it would be for “clean” anti-government radicals to do real damage. I’m clean as a whistle, and getting more pissed off all the time. I’m a long way from “nothing left to lose”, but something that I thought vanishingly unlikely (namely, that I would be poverty-stricken in retirement) is becoming more likely.
Yup, I’m earlier on the career track, but the financial number that I had picked out as a comfortable target is becoming less comfortable by the day. I had even priced in some inflation, but not enough, I guess. Inflation robs me of my retirement. I’ll never forgive that.
So much this. Been eligible for retirement for a while, but I plan to work until I can’t, because I cannot afford NOT to work. Inflation is one of the drivers, cost of health “insurance” the other.
Yes, it’s making it much harder to pare down my expenses as I plan out retirement. I did take RC Dean’s advice and stock up on flour and pasta.
you Americans move too much. No roots. My family lived in this village for 20 generations.
You’re not wrong.
It is a condition because that’s how we all got here in the first place.
Hey man. I’m on old timer here in Cleveland, I’m third generation!
so many generations in a place with no good vineyards.
Not a fan of sweet/dessert wines?
Besides we’ve got a large number of great breweries, some decent meaderies, and (in the past couple of years) some good distilleries opening up.
great breweries – In Cleveland? I don’t believe it
True leaders gone, of land and people
We have no kin but adopted strangers.
The family weakens by the lengths we travel.
Are you cousins with everyone in the village too? Maybe the gene pool needs some freshening up.
oh no we raid other villages for fresh wimminz
That’s how wars start.
My family has been working its way around the world. Started off from the British Isles, worked its way across the US and crossed over the Pacific to Australia and Japan. My line cheated by reversing direction back across the US. Maybe in a couple generations we will be back to the start.
We moved last November. We had the movers do the bulk of the packing. When we made settlement on the house a couple of weeks before, we got a car (I’m learning to drive) and drove that back to NYC. Anything we really didn’t want the movers to handle (valuable, particularly fragile) we packed in the car for our move.
Moving day was an absolute nightmare. My boss called me with a work emergency while my desk and modem were already packed up. So, I’m stuck calling Verizon to have my plan switched to one where I can use my cell phone as a personal hot spot. Meanwhile, the building manager was out and she hadn’t told the staff to reserve the freight elevator for us. So, the movers are getting held up by every other tenant who decides it’s time to walk the dog or who went to the supermarket. The wife had spent so much time planning the pre-packing (even with movers, it’s not turnkey) that she didn’t do much of the actual pre-packing until the last day. And, of course, she’s enough of a control freak that my doing it stressed her out even more.
Suffice it to say, we didn’t get out of the apartment until about 7:30 PM. On the Wednesday before Thanksgiving. We’d planned to drive down to my brother’s house (my mom lives with them) on the DelMarVa peninsula that night, have Thanksgiving with them and drive to SC on Friday. We got as far as the Jersey turnpike outside of Philadelphia that night. After that, everything went fine.
GET RID OF NOTHING!
DAMNIT, THAT TWIST TIE SPARKS JOY! KEEP IT WITH THE OTHER 2 LBS. OF SAVED TWIST TIES!
{whispers}I might be a hoarder.
*hisses, makes sign of the cross*
I also wash and reuse ziplock bags.
A true hoarder would just toss them on the kitchen floor and tell everyone they’ll re-use them “some day”.
But still… yuck!
My favorite TV show is Hoarders. It makes me feel so much better about myself.
I helped my stepdad build a huge pole barn on his farm (seriously it is about 1/2 a football field in square footage). It is now so full of tractors that you can’t walk from on end to the other. And he keeps going to auctions and buying more tractors.
I’m going to feel sorry for my half sister when he dies. I’ll gladly take the portable sawmill off her hands though.
When that happens, refer her to sloopyinca.
That show made me recognize myself. I’ve been cleaning up a bit since.
What’s your best moving story?
We’ve had good moves, competently executed. About the only story that comes to mind is that, as I was walking with the movers to the front door of our current house, there was a rattlesnake next to the sidewalk. I told them “I’ve got what I need to take care of that, somewhere on your truck.” Nobody was excited about carrying boxes and furniture past a rattlesnake. Fortunately, there was a landscaping crew there, so I was able to borrow a shovel and take care of it right away.
Worst?
See above – no “bad” moves, beyond the usual annoyance and effort that is inherent to moving.
…And you can still remember every last one of those tasty generations, eh, Pie?
Sorry to go OT, but I found this freedom link and found it irresistible. Headline: “Spain’s top court rules pandemic lockdown unconstitutional.”
https://apnews.com/article/europe-business-health-government-and-politics-courts-a0a36ebadb24600e122e2f1fb035011c
So, Spain’s high court found lockdowns an unconstitutional infringement of their citizens’ right to freedom of movement. Huh. ?
Let that sink in and then compare it to what our 9 Nazgul did here in the “land of the free” about church leaders being arrested and churches forcibly closed in CA.
Or think about what’s been going on in Canada.
Spain. Nice place, especially along the southern coast. Easy language to learn. Outstanding eyeball liberty, as well, IIRC from when I was there in the mid-90s.
I saw a post recently about a NY liberal who moved to Spain, and the combination of COVID and Spain turned her into a libertarian who moved back. I believe the road to Damascus for her went through Spain’s socialized healthcare system.
Well, I’ve never been to Spain. But I kinda like the music. Say, the ladies are insane there! And they sure know how to use it.
They don’t abuse it. Never gonna lose it. I can’t refuse it.
Have you been to Arizona?
What does it matter? What does it matter?
Tehachapi, Tucumcari?
Hackensack, Cadillac, Fond du Lac
Tuscon or Tonapah?
Driving the backroads so he wouldn’t get weighed?
Burned by the sun, every time I go to Mexico.
I was standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona, and such a fine sight to see.
It’s a girl, by Lord, in a flatbed Ford, slowing down to take a look at me.
Don’t forget Winona ?
Well, the pastors did prevail eventually, 6-3.
Most people find Jesus in prison. In CA, they get sent to prison for finding him outside.
“What’re you in for?”
“Praising the lord.”
“How long you get for that?”
” Dunno, but it feels like an eternity, with time off for meaningful repentance!”
I spent a month or so in the area of Tarragona (NE Mediterranean). Loved it.
Looks like Catalunya might be freer than we are soon.
Hmmmm…..
“Or think about what’s been going on in Canada.”
Victoria (Australia) says hold my beer.
Sunday (July 11), marked 11 straight days of no new cases. Since then 18 new cases, so state government orders a lockdown, on less than 12 hours notice, of a minimum of five days’ duration. Eighteen cases, in a population of 6.7 MILLION. Since the outbreak of the pandemic, Victoria has officially recorded 20,737 cases with 820 deaths (0.04% of those who get the virus die from it). But, yes, let’s fuck the entire state over again. Of course, it’s not a big deal because the federal government is going to issue “disaster” payments to the state.
When the chickens finally come home to roost, it’s not going to be pretty.
Lockdowns are such white privilege.
Hah! The New Zealand version of NPR reported last week on a study that showed that people in lower-paying, less-skilled jobs had been hardest hit by the lockdowns. It was reported as something that one HAD to have done a study about in order to learn this.
It was absolutely unpredictable.
The bad part of moving (IMO) is knowing that you’re GOING to move, but not knowing WHEN you’re going to move.
Generally speaking, the men and kids at church will move families, but we don’t participate in those, so we don’t expect to get free labor.
The last time we moved I was 8 months pregnant, so we hired movers to pack. I would have rather packed myself, but they did a good job with the art, especially oversized art.
This time we will pack and move as much as we can ourselves (control freak, not cheap) and hire movers for the big stuff.
We joke that we only do cross country moves when my wife is pregnant. First cross country move, I had to physically remove the hand truck from the house and hide it so that my obviously pregnant (7 months or so) wife would stop lugging appliances and heavy boxes around.
Second time, at least we had family help so she could focus on opening boxes instead of trying to put herself into premature labor.
I uh, *clears throat* switched jobs while my wife was having our third. I had one week off in between jobs for her to pop the baby out and then I left to start new job while she stayed back to get our house listed and then sold/packed up*.
We’re still married *laughs nervously*.
*New employer paid for movers.
Look, the thing you have to remember about wives* is that we see our husbands as equal partners and we have a common goal with that partner. Whatever we have to do however we have to do to do that is what we will do. You get a new job to further the family’s interests, which is half the job. She stays behind to do the other half of that job. We’re happy to do it.
*standard “not all wives” disclaimer
The first of many times the Rev GT and I moved together was from our first apartment together – in a smallish town, the county seat of a very rural county – to an apartment in a mid-sized city where he would complete his parish ministry internship. The entire day was a comedy of errors.
We arrived later than intended and after the apartment complex’s management office had closed, so we had to do a fair amount of walking to locate a phone to call someone who could give us our key. (This was way back when only rich people had mobile phones.) When we returned to our rental moving truck – parked at the opposite end of the complex from our apartment – we discovered that the steering column had locked up. I think eventually we were able to move the truck by removing the steering wheel and clamping a wrench to the pin in the center of the column, but this was after lugging a fair number of boxes the 50+ yards from the truck to the apartment.
Once we were in, I believe we DID have a working phone in the new place, so the future Rev called the lay member of the church who was coordinating many aspects of the internship. That’s when we learned that the church’s minister, under whom the Rev GT was to be working, was out of town in the hospital with a fairly serious illness and would remain so for several weeks.
When we’d visited this city several weeks earlier to hunt for an apartment, the family with whom we stayed had taken in a stray cat they said they couldn’t keep because of their “pre-existing” cats. To my pleased surprise, Rev announced that if we were allowed to have a cat in whatever apartment we chose, WE would adopt the cat. The day we moved in, we were told that this cat was pregnant. She later birthed a litter of seven kittens in our one-bedroom apartment. (I’m happy to report that we eventually found homes for all of them.)
Seven kittens! Squee! (I mean, yikes, but still -SQUEE!)
The biggest fun, once they were ambulatory and out of the box, was getting them all out of the bedroom each night, where our bed was two mattresses on the floor. ???????
The hardest thing I’ve ever moved was when I closed my motorcycle shop. I had some good help, and mostly paid them with various parts. Massive amounts of gaskets, cables, batteries, whole bikes, lifts, tools and equipment. I went to the swap meet a dozen times with double spaces and barley knocked down the pile. I still have way too much of everything. I should be swap meeting every weekend, but I just don’t have the energy for all of that, and bides, I would just go around and buy other, more desirable junk with the money. I’m seriously going to start selling stuff on C/L and whatnot just to get some space back. Shudder to think about moving now, especially my machines.
Been here in northern New Jersey for 19 years. Really a lovely place, raised my two boys here, will be painful to leave. But need to get out of NJ, things are irreparably broken here.
First, purge old stuff – in process, local Vietnam Vets org have been the recipients of lots of things no longer useful to us but otherwise in good shape. Still much stuff to sort out.
Next, pick a time and destination – work in progress, especially the timing. Mrs. Patzer does not get around to well so employment options are limited (I am fortunately fully remote, so not an issue for me). Destination will likely be somewhere on or near the East coast, within ~ 2 hr driving distance of an ocean beach.
Finally… Profit!
Since I am boxing up my kitchen for the update, I am sorting and getting rid of stuff. Since I’m sorting the kitchen, I’m sorting the rest of the house.
OT: Foo Fighters cancel show requiring fans to get mandatory jab(s) after someone in their organization gets COVID.
There goes my hero’s. Watch them as they make fools of themselves.
Covid throws a monkey wrench into everything.
If Grohl thinks coronavirus can be stamped out, it will be everlong before he plays concerts again.
But if what if it lead to a breakout? This is a call out to make sure we all do our part so we don’t go MIA.
Shame shame on him. One by one he’s cancelling concerts because in times like these you can’t be too careful or we’ll be on a long road to ruin. Maybe he’ll resolve to be back next year if they can find places outside with enough space for social distancing of the congregation. In the meantime he can make a fire of unused tickets.
Naturally there’s a bit of doom-casting at the bottom of the story. Assholes.
Out of an abundance of caution, FDR put Japanese into internment camps.
Maybe an abundance of caution is a goddamned stupid concept.
He locked up the wops, too. Nobody ever mentions that.
Not to me they didn’t. Hmm ?. ?
Too bad Merle Haggard isn’t around anymore to call Grohl a goddamned pussy.
‘If we play to 1,000,000 fans on this tour, 2,500 of them could get sick. Given their average age, one of them could die!’
My worst move was not my own.
When I was still dating Mrs. Time I was volunteered to help her friend from work move.
The house was filthy and roach ridden in West Philly. We were moving to a third floor walk-up.
My wife was the only one of the people from work who showed up, that was the first red flag.
The second red flag was that when we got to the house she had not packed anything. We should have left as soon as that flag was unfurled. But I was trying to be a good guy and not make my girl friend look bad to her co-worker.
There were few boxes, but tones of contractor bags. The woman’s brother asked me to go with him to get some crates so we could move books. I figured a trip to dollar store or Walmart, nope we went to a convenient store to steal crates. Yet another red flag.
Did I mention the brother was a crack head?
Well we eventually filled up the truck and moved everything. I felt bad that she didn’t have a bed for her and her kid set up, so I got my tools out and put together her bed.
As we were trying to leave after 4 hours of this shit she tells us to wait as the beer and pizza are coming soon.
We were on our way out the door when some dude walked in talking on the phone. He ignored us and started to talk to the woman we moved. She introduced him as her boyfriend.
I walked away immediately and told my GF to get in the car. I told her and everyone that I’m leaving before I say or do something we all will regret.
I have and never will move anyone again besides boxes and big stuff.
When I was just out of college (Memphis State) I got a job working for Andersen Consulting in Minneapolis. During the final negotiations I got AC to pay for relocation, which meant actual movers.
It was awesome having a crew come in and box everything up in a couple hours load it into a truck and send it on its way. So much better than the moves before that.
In Minneapolis we ended up with a third story walkup apartment. The movers weren’t pleased when they had to carry everything up 3 flights of stairs.
Oh, just the AFT Union president predicting millions of COVID deaths in Florida.
Millions? Yeah, sure…
Well, eventually. Not ’cause of that, but they’ll die at some point.
That’s nothing, 40 million were dying each year from lack of healthcare before the ACA saved us. I bet DeSantis approved of that too.
* Checks medical history
Yup. There is a ghost among you, glibs. So far I have died 6 times from lack of health care .
/not a cat
Shame. Net Neutrality got me
Why didn’t you get the vaccine???
Anyone else notice that the DNC witches are getting increasingly shrill over the last week? Sebelius with her evil talk about a caste system yesterday, and Weingarten on DeSantis today?
Well it does look like the variants are slipping past the vaxes to a degree and they’re trying to take advantage as is to be expected. Even with the higher numbers of positives the death rate is very low compared to what it was.
I’ve already started seeing the Delta Variants are HERE! articles popping up in my news feed. Never mind hospitalization or death rates.
Weingarten is progjecting again.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ml3nyww80
Disgusting. Millions of Floridians are going to die for Ron DeSantis’ ignorance
Well, Florida has just under 4.5 million residents who are 65 years of age and over.
I can say with confidence that 95% of them will be dead in the next thirty years.
They won’t have died of COVID, nor will they be pinin’ for the fjords because of Ron DeSantis’ purported ignorance, but they’ll still be dead. So the union hack has that much going for her, which is nice.
Just got back from Daytona. It was way less crowded than L.A., must have been the ‘vid.
“Well, Florida has just under 4.5 million residents who are 65 years of age and over.”
Also a few million Florida Men, ever in search of entertaining ways to expire.
The last time I moved it was a case of “If you’re not going to renew your lease, we’re going to charge you [obscene monthly rate] for running past the end of it” Since there was a tiny window between my closing and the end of the lease, this led to a mad scramble to move that I’m still unpacking from. Two days to shift all my stuff. No time to filter, and I’m still opening boxes to go “I’ve been looking for that.”
Best? Moving story: As noted above, I moved my entire household from Ft Knox to Ft Irwin in the summer of ’94. I drove the 26′ U-haul and my wife followed in our Pontiac Grand Am. Most of the trip I had the dog in the cab with me and the kids would ride with my wife.
Probably every six hours, I’d take one or both of the kids to keep her from murdering them and she’d take the dog because of room.
After 4 days on the road, we stop in Santa Rosa NM for the night and eat at Denny’s. We bring back left-overs for the dog. Which might have been a mistake.
In the morning, the kids are fighting and the dog is not feeling well. My wife gives me the dog and takes the kids. We go to the gas station and the dog vomits in the cab. It smells bad enough to make me gag, while I’m laughing at my wife as she’s cleaning it up, because I just can’t.
Real funny. So now I’ve got the dog and my daughter (because fighting). Poor Repo is obviously not feeling well and Sara is comforting her. We put Repo’s dog pillow on the floorboard and get her settled and head out. I put the rug from our backdoor, on of the last things we packed, onto the passenger seat as extra protection.
I get about 5 miles down the road and my daughter starts tugging my arm. I look down at her and her eyes are like saucers and she points to the dog who is standing in the seat, hunched up and ready to shit right in my daughter’s lap.
I execute the fastest stop a 26′ Uhaul with 12.5K lbs of shit in it has ever done. How I didn’t manage to roll the fucking thing is still beyond me. In the meantime the dog has shit and puked all over that rug. And the seat. And a corner of the pillow.
When I get out of the truck, I’m giggling and vomiting at the same time while my daughter runs back to the car. I can’t even breath, and the smell in the cab just gets me going over and over again. My wife has to clean up the cab while I try to clean up the dog while getting her to empty everything out. Both of us are like “Oh god! *heave* Oh god!”
After that, that poor dog curled up on her pillow and didn’t move for 8 hours. You’d think that would have ruined that dog for trips, but she loved riding more than anything in the world.
I still laugh when ever I picture the look of horror in my daughter’s eyes. My wife was pretty pissed at me at the time, but we get a pretty good laugh out of it when we think about it and tell the story.
There’s a shit
Lol!
There should be a single word in English for ‘giggling and vomiting at the same time.’
*paging SugarFree, SugarFree to the red courtesy phone*
There’s a shit… stained indoor/outdoor rug along side the road and U-haul with a certain odor that probably never went away to commemorate the event.
Bella would vomit about 90 minutes into a road trip, like clockwork, so I always had the spare towel ready, but Boy did she love riding,
/Doggie smellgasm!
Similarly, on the way back from camping one time in my 95 Buick regal. The dog kept pestering me while I was driving from the back seat. Then managed to get his ass between my seat and the door and shit on my seatbelt and my shoulder. It was so funny, if it hadn’t been me.
I never moved everything but I think the best way to go about it is to be very rich and a sociopath. Not attached to any old possessions and enough money to buy new ones. So just dump the old place get a new one and buy new shit.
or be really decluttered and have everything you own fit in 2 suitcases
Pro tip – try not to own a pickup truck in your early twenties, when all your friends are moving to and from schools, moving into apartment (always third floor), getting married and moving into houses, and are still relatively poor so “lets call Hype he has a pickup truck” seems like a solid moving strategy. That or get better than I was at telling friends “No.”
What’s just as bad is they expect you to help with the actual moving part as well. Not only do you get to put wear and tear on your vehicle, your back gets it too.
Or, live someplace where most everybody has a pickup truck.
A couple of days ago, XX volunteered our truck to haul something for her bestie’s dad. Despite weeks of pleading for us to let her use the truck and stern lectures on the fact that she has a car and is not allowed to use the truck, she did this. We said no. We DID offer to drive the dad, but either he declined or she didn’t pass along the offer (I’m betting the latter).
So we didn’t even get the dignity of being asked directly. Kid volunteered it without asking first.
well did not teach XX the value of not helping others so in a way it is your fault.
Been there, done that.
“Sorry, but I’m helping my friend Joe move that weekend. You haven’t met Joe? I’ll introduce you next time your both over at our place.”
Narrator: There is no Joe.
16 year old me getting dad’s old truck was so happy! Until I figured out what came with that.
I’m done with moving. I figure we’ll move 1 more time to a smaller house. 2 if you count the move to the grave. Unfortunately my wife likes to find renovation projects which is a lot like moving. Nothing I like more than living out of boxes.
“you count the move to the grave.”
“Everyone should be cremated and thrown in the sea,” a councillor said during a debate on extending a cemetery.
Andrew Hinchliff made the comment about plans to extend Llanrhos cemetery in Llandudno, Conwy county.
A report in March found four of the county’s 11 cemeteries were full, but opponents objected to the use of green space for an additional 1,568 plots.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-57846755
There are some religious groups that believe it is wrong to be cremated.
Even though I personally disagree, can the state really dictate cremation even if it’s in violation of religious beliefs?
In Europe? probably.
can or should?
I hear one only rents cemetery plots in many places (obviously not for Oscar Wilde and the like). What happens to the coffin and contents after that?
I wouldn’t mind being part of an ossuary.
When my husband and I threw out lot in together many moons ago, he had most of his stuff in a storage unit, and I had just divorced so I had my stuff in a storage unit too.
We rented an apartment while we looked for a house (he talked the apartment manager into giving us a three month lease; unheard of!). In the apartment we had only 2 mattresses, directly on the floor, a PC, a dining table and chairs, an acoustic guitar, and a TV. Still many happy memories.
When we bought the Minneapolis house, we went to our respective storage units and learned a lot about each other. Like the fact that he owned a dozen guitars and plenty of amps etc. I had no idea how important music was to him. He learned that I had a rock and mineral collection (long since rehomed).
We were young enough then to move our own stuff.
I haven’t moved in over a decade. Never a pleasant experience, particularly as you get older and accumulate more shit.
My parents are approaching that age though and they’ve got two sizeable houses full of stuff to deal with when they pass. Dad has already made it clear that it’s my problem. He’s not going to be bothered by it because he’ll be dead.
I’ve already told my kids this same thing.
My sister in law had to deal with moving her mom into a smaller house after her dad died, and then she also had to implement the move of her mother in law (my mom) to a new place.
After dealing with so much STUFF, she and my brother were inspired to get rid of a bunch of her own accumulated stuff and move into a neat little minimalist condo.
My husband and I are trying to do the same. Many donations, garage sales, and Craigslist sales have been made since we moved to California.
If we do make another move, I’m culling the detritus yet again.
My mother has been ruthlessly sorting and culling since before my dad died. It has accelerated since she’s thinking of an assisted living type place.
Those don’t appeal to me anymore after the mockdown (I think Medicare funds had something to do with keeping them prisoner? any lawyers here know?).
She’s putting it off because of that
Pro organizer / downsizing sale (I sometimes see these called estate sales though the person is alive) is tempting to me, esp. for the parents, if I can convince them.
My moving method is: Throw everything in sight in boxes, transport it in as few trips as possible, then dump it all out in the living room, sort it by which room it goes to, move the items there, and put them away (the only exception is glassware and other delicate things, which I wrap in clothing and pack in special boxes). It’s very quick.
I know it’s probably more work, but it doesn’t seem like more work to me, if that makes any sense. I just find it a pain in the ass to sit there fretting over what should go in which box.
It’s like I do my taxes. Throw all the receipts in a bucket and do it all at the end of the year. Yeah, it takes me 3 days, but I don’t agonize over whether I forgot to record something in whatever bookkeeping system I happen to cobble together.
I really do wonder how many hours would be saved if there were no income tax… then again honest tax accountants need work too
honest tax accountant seems like an oxymoron. There is nothing honest about taxes.
Glazier handing out rocks to local teens?
What about this guy?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_the_Apostle
I used to date a tax lady. She would stack up a dozen boxes every time she had an audit. The top box had relevant paperwork, with an easy and livable mistake obvious and glaring. The rest of the boxes were full of irrelevant meaningless papers. She’d haul it all in on a dolly, with a dozen donuts and a huge thermos of coffee. She set it all out and tell the auditor, ” well let’s get started!” He’d flip open box one, sift through it for awhile until he found the planted mistake. Then, he’d make a big deal about the one thing, having gotten his win and say, ” I think we’ve found the important part, no need to flip through all of this.” She said it worked every time.
My last move I hired movers. I’d forgotten to pack my proverbial kitchen’s junk drawer. While the movers were working, they saw me packing it and offered to do it themselves. I let them.
My kick ass swiss army knife that my grandfather had given me before I shipped off to Gulf War part i was in that drawer and never made it to the new house. I didn’t realize its absence until it was unreasonable to make an accusation.
In the future I’ll pack and move myself all such heirloom items.
We lost a 100+ year old family bible that should have gone with us in the car moving to FLA. It got packed with damned Harry Potter books. We didn’t know it was missing until we moved back to GA.
ouch! Yeah I told my sister that our great-grandmother’s Swedish bible better be kept close if she ever moves.
To add insult to injury, my wife repurchased the then published Potter books a second time to read to my daughter at bedtime.
That’s the one where every time God smites someone, he says “Bork! Bork! Bork!” right?
It’s the one where God commands them to make shitty meatballs and be laughed at by those who were taught to make them in the Roman Bible.
Meatballs in gravy are superior to that in red sauce. This is known.
Y’all want to see what some real radical extremism and racism looks like?
Here you go
“people should be treated as individuals not as part of a group” gasp! *shudders* THE HORROR!
Oh dear, exposure to extreme content! We must protect ourselves from extremely anodyne differences in opinion!
TG;DR
I wonder if there’s any way I can buy this without having Mrs. Animal shoot me. Probably not.
That thing is beautiful, but at that price, I’d better be able to drive it down the street.
My Dad would have pointed out that a grouse killed with my ~$75 Ditch Witch is just as dead as one killed with a pricey British double. And, to be fair, I already have one hand-made British sidelock, so I guess I should be satisfied.
Looks like a lamp to me.
I was wondering if someone would mention that.
If she shoots you with that, it will have been worth it. We all gotta go, may as well go in style.
I’d prefer to have her shoot me after catching me in bed with Kate Beckinsale, but I guess one can’t have everything.
LOL, now THAT is style!
I am not aware of a man that wouldn’t have it any other way if that was how their soul left this planet.
Moving sucks and results in unpacked boxes sitting all around the house for months or years. And when you finally get those all unpacked, it’s time to move again.
Shoulda held out just a bit longer.
The next time I move it will be 6 feet underground.
6 feet… Social distancing?
Don’t do a long distance move with cats. Although the many hours of yowling will help keep you awake.
We did that. Drove from Biloxi to New Mexico and the cat was our only pet. That was tedious and definitely not anything else I want to do again. I will pay some pet shipping when we move across country next time.
I moved from Fargo to Columbus with a very unhappy and carsick cat. Then from Columbus to DC with the same cat. Poor baby. When he saw boxes and bubble wrap he would hide under the bed. When I brought home boxes and bubble wrap to Oscar he thought I was the Best! Human! Ever!!!!
I am surprised I haven’t accidently packed my cat in a bag when I have to travel. When I set it out to start packing, she will curl up in the bag. Amazing how they know what an item means.
A friend returned from a trip and left the empty, open suitcase on her bedroom floor. Walked back in to the bedroom to find the cat had used it as a litter box. Apparently kitty didn’t like her traveling.
don’t have cats… fixed that for you
But how will I keep the Mummy away?
Off post but some good news.
I got on the scale today, 184, 8 lbs under where I was 4 months ago today, when my personal Hell broke loose I saw the ortho doc this morning.
Doc’s visit was reassuring, no more x-rays, no more appointments. He said I will never be the same guy again (which I already knew). 1 leg shorter, limp, stiffness, discomfort.
Back on the treadmill and weight machine tomorrow. I see a family doctor on Wednesday for other things (foot, shoulder, itchiness). I need to learn how to walk and ditch the rental wheelchair. I’m gonna keep and use a walker for awhile.
He warned me not to fall down, that’s a plane ride to Mpls, surgery and start over again.
All this nonsense started 4 months ago today. So good news, the healing of the socket is complete and I can start learning to do things again. For now, exercise and learn to walk without the walker. I’m like a kid in a candy store with a 20 dollar bill.
Thanks to all the Glibs for your encouragement and good wishes.
Wow. Long road, sounds like the climb is getting less steep. May the blessings of downhill be yours soon.
Would an orthotic help for the shorter leg?
I’m hoping the exercise will stretch the ligaments and muscle. Could be a little added shoe sole might be in order. Otherwise I’ll be walking in circles so same as my whole life. I’m happy (and surprised) at this point ’cause it could be so much worse. Happy that the four months are behind and the future is endless.
Awesome news. You may not be the same guy again, but you might surprise yourself. Even at 49 I’m learning to walk that fine line between pushing myself, and pushing myself to the point of being stupid about it.
The positive news is always welcoming to read.
When we bought the house we were stuffed into a 900sqft condo at the time. We moved boxed items but everything else paid some local college kids that were upstarting a business doing just that. Before that, I had military movers and they would pack everything and while talking to them, were paid for what material they used for the move. I had individual plastic forks that they would find in a drawer wrapped in mounds of paper and put into a box.
Oh and as for future moves? We will bake that into our costs of whatever house/land we buy except valuables and heirlooms and pay movers from what we hope will be a trusted company.
Throw. Stuff. Out.
If you have to think about whether or not you should take it. Don’t.
We moved to a much smaller place and our Iron Law was that if we couldn’t determine the exact place a thing was going to go in the new house we couldn’t take it.
We still moved too much and haven’t missed anything we left behind.
https://independentchronicle.com/jackie-chan-says-he-would-love-to-join-the-chinese-communist-party-praises-its-greatness/
*blinks*
Wut?
Isn’t he from the mainland? If yes I don’t blame him for toeing the line, the CCP even disappeared that squareheaded billionaire guy. Chan might be an icon but he’s not immune.
No, Ma is back. He reappeared and made a quick statement before disappearing again. That totally proves the CCP never disappeared him to begin with.
Anyway, Ma is one of the grays. He’s the Asian version, while Zuckerborg is the white guy version. They can almost make themselves look human, just need a little more practice..
I hope Mr Lizard is doing well.
Preparing orbital bombardment, no doubt.
I offer my meager assistance, if so.
Oblig: http://www.culturaldamage.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/lizard-lounge.jpg
(Above Fear and Loathing still also available on Icke’s site. ?)
From and is in HK, which is difference not much. Hard to say what is genuine and what is pressure (direct, professional, or familial). Having Jackie Chan publicly support the CCP is obviously a feather in someone’s cap.
I’ve grown weary of saying this, but if he loves communism so much, why don’t he move to China?
How long before he disappears for mouthing off?
Well, since he’s from Hong Kong, I think China moved to him.
Jackie Chan has been a political garbage fire for as long as I can remember.
Also, most of his movies have sucked ass.
I dug the one he did with Pierce Brosnan.
This one.
I dig Pierce Brosnan.
Jackie Chan wants to keep living it up in China and HK. I’m sure he also has family there.
The Drunken Master was a lot of fun to watch.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080179/
The way of the kowtow will be his next movie.
Yeah, something tells me Jackie Chan’s “lived experiences” in China are different from the average Chinese person.
I see from his wikipedia page that he is indeed a commie and has just assumed a membership in something called the “Hong Kong Election Committee” – I believe that’s the group of elites who select the next leader that Beijing tells them to.
IOW his brain is mush, best ignored.
Reuters tweeted yesterday about the protesting in Cuba exacerbating Covid spread:
https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1415408298405384202
TMITE, it never fails…
CNN approves this message.
The Mahoning Drive-In has been saved.
I mentioned last night during the CPRM post on TV that one of the best drive-in theaters in the country was being shut down. The land owner had a lease with the theater owners for the last several decades, but decided to lease the land to a solar energy company without providing any notice or the option to counter to the theater, other than via zoning board meeting notice. This would close the theater for good.
The Drive-In asked the fans of the theater to write and call the solar company and land owner to encourage them to look elsewhere for land and as of today they succumbed to the pressure and walked away from the deal. Even more importantly the land owner who refused in the past, is now open to selling the land to the Drive-In.
The owner had the right to lease the land to whomever he wanted to, but the fans of the theater had every right to petition the solar company and land owner to reconsider. The bad PR made it worth walking away from the deal for the solar company.
Plus they can continue to have great festivals like the following:
REEL WEIRD WEEKEND returns for the 2021 season with four legendary cult classics from two legends of cult cinema: Alejandro Jodorowsky and John Waters! See EL TOPO, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, FEMALE TROUBLE and DESPERATE LIVING — all in glorious 35mm on the giant drive-in screen!
https://www.mahoningdit.com/about-us/about-us
There’s some weird favorite films in the staff’s bios.
Cannonball Run? 10 Things I Hate About You?
Are you one of those weirdos that prefers Cannonball Run II? Because that’s just sick.
They are a bunch of weirdos and misfits. Sound familiar.
The documentary about the theater is pretty good as well.
https://www.amazon.com/At-Drive-Jeff-Mattox/dp/B07KZ4H87P
Good for them. Would have been a shame to lose a piece of history like that.
Well damn… looks like Steam is getting into the console business.
Every so often they try to break into hardware.
I don’t expect more success than their last venture.
We’ll see.
I’m happy with my Index.
For games that require a controller, the Steam one wasn’t bad. I just prefer keyboard and mouse for most of my PC gaming.
Looks like they’re aiming for the Switch market of mobile gaming. Definitely not going to be an early adapter of it, but I’ll be interested in the reviews when it comes out.
I’m too old for that thing. I want a bigger screen, not a smaller one.
It does have video output, so you could also dock it… of course, at that point, you might as well have a PC there.
Looks like it can accommodate a keyboard and mouse as well (via the docking station). Not a horrible price point for a portable PC game player; if it can handle Borderlands 3 and Battlefield 5 like my PC.
Also, WTF is up with telemarketers? I’ve had 23 calls in the last 48 hours.
Links are forthcoming. There are technical difficulties.
You people are just torturing Bro’, admit it.
I had already Firsted. The battle was won.
Your comments are important to us. Please stand by.
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CNN/MSNBC/YahooChickenshit Mendacious Left-wing MediaThe whole thread went by and no RIchard Pryor or Dana Garvey gifs posted?
/disappointed
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The movers came for our stuff yesterday. We did the bulk of the packing, but they did the furniture and a bunch of other stuff.
Worth. Every. Fucking. Dime.
Our move is a little bit of a clusterfuck since our current house closes today, while our new place isn’t ready until 8/1. Luckily we are staying with family for a couple weeks.
Moving sucks but people who know what they are ding make it better.