How far do you have to move? Can you do any of it by foot?
Dom
-helped a friend do that once.
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onslaught86
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Well!
I've now completed the move. For a basic rundown, I was previously living with three insane girls in a four bedroom place with two bathrooms and a sunroom. Pretty cool, but I'd been there for nearly two years, and the insane girls didn't exactly make me feel welcome - it wasn't my home, I just stayed in my room and did my own thing. My friends didn't want to come over, there were dramas galore, and I was generally not the happiest of campers there.
I've now moved to a three bedroom place, with loads more space, a deck, a big back yard, a pool table, a spa, an enormous projector screen, and am living with a friend of mine. It feels like some kind of weight has lifted, and I'm no longer trapped in a situation I felt helplessly stuck in. I'd been meaning to move for the longest time, but somehow it got hinged on some condition outside of my control - "Oh, I'll wait until that guy needs a place too", or "I'll wait until they move out of there and grab that place".
Someone said something along the lines of "If you really wanted to leave, you would", and I realised I would indeed. So I did.
Packing up TFs sucks quite the big one. Alternators, yeah, kinda gave up on that. Settled for wrapping them carefully in newspaper and stacking them in boxes. Hopefully there's no damage, I'll find out when I unpack. Currently in the process of settling, it's amazing how much crap I crammed in my old room. Thinking about it, people seem to fill rooms with objects, and then fill the gaps between those objects with more stuff - if we didn't do that, moving would be a breeze.
I managed to pack up most of my stuff on saturday in preparation for the move on sunday. Family came and helped, brought a trailer, all went pretty smoothly. Now I just need to find someone to move into the old place, heh. Think I may have that sorted.. This new house is even closer to work than the old one, dropping me from a fifteen minute walk to a ten minute walk. Nicely done, more than happy to pay an extra ten dollars a week to live here.
I've now completed the move. For a basic rundown, I was previously living with three insane girls in a four bedroom place with two bathrooms and a sunroom. Pretty cool, but I'd been there for nearly two years, and the insane girls didn't exactly make me feel welcome - it wasn't my home, I just stayed in my room and did my own thing. My friends didn't want to come over, there were dramas galore, and I was generally not the happiest of campers there.
I've now moved to a three bedroom place, with loads more space, a deck, a big back yard, a pool table, a spa, an enormous projector screen, and am living with a friend of mine. It feels like some kind of weight has lifted, and I'm no longer trapped in a situation I felt helplessly stuck in. I'd been meaning to move for the longest time, but somehow it got hinged on some condition outside of my control - "Oh, I'll wait until that guy needs a place too", or "I'll wait until they move out of there and grab that place".
Someone said something along the lines of "If you really wanted to leave, you would", and I realised I would indeed. So I did.
Packing up TFs sucks quite the big one. Alternators, yeah, kinda gave up on that. Settled for wrapping them carefully in newspaper and stacking them in boxes. Hopefully there's no damage, I'll find out when I unpack. Currently in the process of settling, it's amazing how much crap I crammed in my old room. Thinking about it, people seem to fill rooms with objects, and then fill the gaps between those objects with more stuff - if we didn't do that, moving would be a breeze.
I managed to pack up most of my stuff on saturday in preparation for the move on sunday. Family came and helped, brought a trailer, all went pretty smoothly. Now I just need to find someone to move into the old place, heh. Think I may have that sorted.. This new house is even closer to work than the old one, dropping me from a fifteen minute walk to a ten minute walk. Nicely done, more than happy to pay an extra ten dollars a week to live here.
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Just wait until you have a whole house full of stuff to pack and move one day. THAT's fun.
I moved from our first house into the current one we're living in about three years ago. It's about an hour and a half drive between the two, and my father in law wanted to load the moving truck, thinking he knew how to do it the best. Of course, he thinks he knows better than everyone else about everything, but in this case I figured "it'll be less work for me, so fine. He can load the truck."
That was a mistake. He got his feelings hurt because we wouldn't let him disassemble the dining room table, so he went off and packed his van, leaving the moving truck only partly packed. I didn't realize until I started driving it just how top heavy it felt, since he'd started by packing the front of the truck all the way to the ceiling. I spent that whole trip from one location to the other worried that the truck was going to tip, though half that was probably my imagination.
He's never packing for me again, that's for sure. Though hopefully I'm not moving again for awhile. Possessions seem to multiply exponentially to fill the size of one's living space. It's amazing how little I was able to make do with when I lived in a two-room college apartment. Now I can't seem to find enough space for everything in a two-story, three bedroom house. The garage doesn't house my car, it houses stuff on shelves.
Anyway, congrats on the new place and new living situation. I'm sure it's a vast improvement.
I moved from our first house into the current one we're living in about three years ago. It's about an hour and a half drive between the two, and my father in law wanted to load the moving truck, thinking he knew how to do it the best. Of course, he thinks he knows better than everyone else about everything, but in this case I figured "it'll be less work for me, so fine. He can load the truck."
That was a mistake. He got his feelings hurt because we wouldn't let him disassemble the dining room table, so he went off and packed his van, leaving the moving truck only partly packed. I didn't realize until I started driving it just how top heavy it felt, since he'd started by packing the front of the truck all the way to the ceiling. I spent that whole trip from one location to the other worried that the truck was going to tip, though half that was probably my imagination.
He's never packing for me again, that's for sure. Though hopefully I'm not moving again for awhile. Possessions seem to multiply exponentially to fill the size of one's living space. It's amazing how little I was able to make do with when I lived in a two-room college apartment. Now I can't seem to find enough space for everything in a two-story, three bedroom house. The garage doesn't house my car, it houses stuff on shelves.
Anyway, congrats on the new place and new living situation. I'm sure it's a vast improvement.
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To hell with your flat-mates O86. Inside of a few days, you do not have to deal with them. If they were more civil when you lived there, that would be one thing. But, as it is now, you owe them nothing.
I agree with the idea that stuff seems to accumulate. When I moved 7 years back, I left a good deal behind. Over the years, stuff has accumulated, slowly but steadily. I am actively trying to avoid too much keeping too much. Of course the problem is that toys and comics tend to chew up space at a pretty consistent rate.
As for the truck, you were probably not beng unreasonable Anderson. Shifting weight, or simply badly distributed weight, can be dangerous.
Dom
I agree with the idea that stuff seems to accumulate. When I moved 7 years back, I left a good deal behind. Over the years, stuff has accumulated, slowly but steadily. I am actively trying to avoid too much keeping too much. Of course the problem is that toys and comics tend to chew up space at a pretty consistent rate.
As for the truck, you were probably not beng unreasonable Anderson. Shifting weight, or simply badly distributed weight, can be dangerous.
Dom
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The last time I moved was when I formally moved into my father's house into my mother's. I still haven't brought all my toys and crap over, and I wouldn't have the space to do so anyway. Hell, right now I barely have the proper space to display the crap I have 'now.'
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
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Ah, did that last time I moved back in with the mother and shifted all that stuff, a good chunk of it is mine - doesn't help that chronic hoarding runs in the family.. Advantage: Her current place has five huge storage sheds.Just wait until you have a whole house full of stuff to pack and move one day. THAT's fun.
I'm always incredibly paranoid that the most important things I've packed will dive off the trailer when going around corners and such. I've a reasonable amount of furniture - two couches, three chairs, three tables, several shelving and entertainment units, a massive antique chest of drawers with a mirror, and the bed, so moving is usually enough of a chore without paranoia. The chest of drawers is particularly worrying, since the mirror has a tendancy to come off in transit.I spent that whole trip from one location to the other worried that the truck was going to tip, though half that was probably my imagination.
Still need to call the real estate agent about that. Shouldn't be any problems, but I expect them to try and milk everything they can get out of me.To hell with your flat-mates O86. Inside of a few days, you do not have to deal with them. If they were more civil when you lived there, that would be one thing. But, as it is now, you owe them nothing.
I'm a pretty chronic hoarder myself, and though I try to downsize, some things just keep accumulating anyway. Heh. Right now I'm on the hunt for a good CD rack, since I have close to 200 CDs and buy more most weeks.I agree with the idea that stuff seems to accumulate. When I moved 7 years back, I left a good deal behind. Over the years, stuff has accumulated, slowly but steadily. I am actively trying to avoid too much keeping too much. Of course the problem is that toys and comics tend to chew up space at a pretty consistent rate.
It doesn't help that I just blew a good chunk of my pay on my housewarming present to myself - Masterpiece Thundercracker. Eheh, oops. At least I went shopping first.
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The apartment I'm currently living in is okay, but it's location is terrible. Idiots in the parking lot blaring music, way too many sirens (i guess I should be thankful there are so many cops?), and I'm no where near any of my friends, school, or work. And yet here I am for another year because a) it's probably the cheapest place I can live without roommates, and b) no way I'm moving all this mess by myself. I'm pretty sure when I do decide to move, I'll just shove all of my furniture over the balcony, light it on fire, and buy new stuff for wherever I move to.
Also, yes, I horde. When moving, I consider everything I know I need to pack; then I discover that the things I'm aware that I own only make up half of the stuff I actually own. Where does it all come from?
Also, yes, I horde. When moving, I consider everything I know I need to pack; then I discover that the things I'm aware that I own only make up half of the stuff I actually own. Where does it all come from?
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Okay, moving sucks more when the roadworks next to my house cut my cable and I'm without internet until tuesday. Currently posting from work. Baaaah.
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I am very focused in my hoarding. For example, in 12 years, I have picked up maybe 30 CDs, and I have not even kept all of them.
But, with comics, I pick up several a week. That may not seem like much, but week after week after week after week.....
Toys also add up. I am now skipping Ultras and even Voyagers more readily for this reason.
Even smaller toys, like Joes can take up space. The smaller stuff is easy to buy, being relatively cheap, and tranport, being small. But, you still need to put it somewhere.
After a massive purge in '05, where I made a point of getting rid of redundant molds and such, my TF collection was managable until the movie. I was very selective during "Cybertron" and the the movie, but there was penty that I wanted. I had a similar comics purge in the last few years. And, being more selective makes it harder to get rid of stuff.
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But, with comics, I pick up several a week. That may not seem like much, but week after week after week after week.....
Toys also add up. I am now skipping Ultras and even Voyagers more readily for this reason.
Even smaller toys, like Joes can take up space. The smaller stuff is easy to buy, being relatively cheap, and tranport, being small. But, you still need to put it somewhere.
After a massive purge in '05, where I made a point of getting rid of redundant molds and such, my TF collection was managable until the movie. I was very selective during "Cybertron" and the the movie, but there was penty that I wanted. I had a similar comics purge in the last few years. And, being more selective makes it harder to get rid of stuff.
Dom
-planning to update the infamous sale-list.