Member Tin-Foil-Tiara
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Thanks guys!
In no particular order:
– I am doing ALL of the packing and unpacking myself.
– We are leaning towards loading and unloading ourselves but all it takes is one wrong move and you’re “out of commission.” We do have a branch of the state university here so maybe we can hire a couple college guys to help?
– PODs is unavailable where we currently live. It was the first thing I looked into after Uhaul lol-We have had several rummage sales this year and last year. Weather permitting, we’ll be having another at the end of the month. I have also donated extensively to local churches, as well as putting stuff out on the driveway for free. Most of it has been children’s items. I was holding onto a lot of it for future potential grandchildren (still years away) but I’m sick of storing and moving it. I’m keeping a few boxes of toys, games, puzzles, etc that don’t require batteries and a few favorite clothing items, as well as quite a few children’s books, but the rest (VAST majority) is gone or going. I’ve actually got a lady from a church/school over yonder who is on vacation until the 28th. A different lady bought our train table for their preschool. I gave her a TON of other stuff for free for the preschool since that’s where I wanted it to go anyway, and in exchange, she gave me the name and number of the lady at the church/school. I’ve left word with them to have her call me when she gets back from vacation. If I don’t hear from her by the 30th at noon from her, I’m either going to call or just go over there and ask if they’ve got families in need of children’s clothing because I’ve got SO MUCH of it yet. Somehow, I doubt she’ll say no. Everyone with children could use more clothes!
– I, too, have heard horror stories about movers/moving companies. I keep trying to get quotes but it’s all online and then they want your email and phone number and we all know what they do with your info…In fact, after verifying ourselves online yesterday for a rental (while we get to know the area we are moving to before buying) I got swamped with spam emails. First came 5 from Chase to my email (and not the one I used, either) but with my husband’s name on it. Then came about 130 more from various places, in various languages (I lost count how many languages I saw), to various people who probably don’t exist. I deleted all of them, marked them all as spam, and blocked them buuuuuut this is exactly why I hate doing stuff online. Area we are moving to (North Central AR) doesn’t have much in the way of rentals. Anything big enough and cheap enough gets swooped up right away, often by locals. Which is more than fair. Absolutely. But it’s frustrating for us. The place we looked yesterday that is doing everything digitally has emailed my husband the access codes. No real person to show us around. It’s a huge red flag to me. I didn’t know that until afterwards. In hindsight, I should’ve listened to my gut and actually CALLED the office to talk to them before doing anything else. You’d think I’d stop ignoring my gut after it’s been right time and time again but nope…*sigh*
I will take everything y’all have said to heart and pray on it. Thanks guys. You rock!
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We are heading to the area we are moving to and I was looking for some family fun to balance out the not so fun stuff that we have to do while we are there visiting. Even effing TripAdvisor is shoving the alphabet train wreck down our throats! There is no escape from this madness.
Friend of mine said that these people don’t even care, it’s just virtue signalling. OK, but that in and of itself is still showing support, regardless of whether or not they ACTUALLY support it. Ugh. -
I’d be mad too!!!!
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I didn’t know that about the insurance. Good to know. Thanks!!
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We moved from a major metropolitan area (over a million) 3 hours north. Had all our stuff in storage. Once we got out of being homeless (long story short, cancer) we took a vanload (we have a minivan) of stuff out of storage back with us. Figured if we had to go back to that hellhole for various reasons, we’d make good use out of it every time. And yes! Grocery bags, garbage bags, even pillowcases!
Thanks!
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Dang, that’s awesome! My husband is OTR. I should ask him about that…Thanks!
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Wow that’s more than twice as far as we’re going! I didn’t know you could do that! How nifty! I’ll look into it, though I don’t think we need a whole 52′ trailer…my husband is an OTR trucker so we have load bars to keep stuff from shifting too much but then you have to worry about weight distribution. Hmmmmm
It’s food for thought. Thanks!
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Good fences make good neighbors but no neighbors make the best neighbors. In my experience anyway LOL
We currently live near “Karens.” The old hag (idec about respecting my elders when it comes to this one) across the street has threatened to call the police as well as sue us because our children were outside just being children. I’ve also had people call CPS on me because oh no, there are unsupervised kids outside! Oh, the humanity!
I don’t know how many pod companies there are but PODS isn’t available here. It’s actually the first thing I looked at after Uhaul, which is our usual go-to. It’s a bummer.
We are planning to rent for a year to get to know the people better (have visited several times) and get a good lay of the land. We don’t want to jump in feet first with our eyes closed. Finding a place to rent there, however, is proving very difficult. There really aren’t a whole lot and the few there are get swooped up right away by locals. Which is more than fair…I’m not whining. They absolutely should get first dibs. It’s just frustrating, that’s all.There’s one that won’t be available until Oct 15 but our current lease (where we are now) is up Sept 30th. Sure, we COULD throw all our stuff in storage until then. We COULD stay in a hotel or something until then. But if we can avoid it, we’d like to. MIL was at a rummage yesterday and the house was for rent. It’ll be available Sept 15th, so I’m hoping and praying we can get in there. It’s nice. She sent us pictures. We know the area from visiting. I just hope no one else snags it before we can even get in touch with the lady who owns it. We have cold hard cash and are willing to drive all that way to hand it over and sign papers if it means not dealing with storage and hotels again. (Yes, again. We’ve been homeless before. (Cancer) I’m SO GLAD we didn’t get rid of it all. It took a year to get out of and once we weren’t homeless anymore it still took another half a year to get our stuff back. Ugh.)
But I’m rambling. Thanks for your two cents. I’ll look to see if there are any other pod companies around here.
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Wow, that’s a lot of moving!! One of the biggest reasons why we are debating hiring people for this move is because we’ve already moved ourselves so many times. It’d be nice to have someone else do the work, especially since we aren’t as young as we used to be. In the grand scheme of things, we ARE younger, but we ain’t spring chickens. All it takes is one wrong move and you’re out! And unlike every other move, this one will be long distance. We might be able to find help loading and should have no problem finding help unloading but it sure would be nice for once to just sit back and pay someone else to do it LOL
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Interesting that it’s not always “get what you pay for.” You’d think it would be with something like that. Well alrighty then. Thanks!!
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I read a comment somewhere from someone saying they moved from one part of the US to another and got rid of all their food beforehand and started over. *glances over at food shelves* I ain’t doin’ that! Especially not in this economy! No food and SHTF a month after we get there?? Nope. Not this family!
Yeah, sure, a fire could happen or we could get run off the road by some loony driver and lose the food too buuuuuuuuut at least then it’s not because of us lol
Clothes we don’t need, extra furniture, gizmos and gadgets we don’t use…that’s all been going at rummages and donations. As much as I keep trying to downsize there’s just still so much stuff. Gotta keep plugging along.
Thanks!
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Yes their cabs are TINY. And why is the seat so gulldurn HARD?? Good tips on the towing, which very well could be what we wind up doing. I’m going to write it down and stick it in my Moving Binder so I remember. Thanks!!
EDIT: Oh, and I had started packing dishes and casserole dishes and whatnot in sheets, towels, etc. It’s what I’ve always done. I need to keep the bigger, squishier blankets out to use as padding. Thank you for the reminder! -
I don’t even know where the closest Home Depot is to us…We’re Menards people LOL But my husband is a veteran so hmmmm that’s something to think about.
And ewwwwww Commiefornia. I went there during my senior year of high school. It’s gorgeous but too many have pooped in the pool. What a damn shame. Thanks for the tip, though! -
Our last move, a 26′ truck BARELY fit everything and that was without the giant sectional. Since then, I’ve gotten rid of SO MUCH STUFF. I’m going to be watching a couple episodes of Hoarders to get me in the mood to go though and ditch even more. I’m also trying to get as much of it out into the garage as possible, in one big lump, so that I can more accurately estimate just how much we have. *sigh* I suck at estimating stuff.
As for helpers, it’s just myself, my husband, and our children. Our neighbors are all older, have jobs, are busy, etc. No family or friends around either. Sounds lonely, but we like it this way. Thinking of possibly hiring a couple guys from the local branch of the state college to help load. As far as unloading, however, we have friends there who would be able to help. I just don’t want to impose and I loathe asking for help. It’s not a pride thing, it’s an I don’t want to be a burden and I don’t want it lorded over my head thing. Which has happened several times in the past. Unfortunately.
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She was put on doxycyline for awhile but it gave her wicked heartburn and didn’t help her skin whatsoever. Fun fact: I’m actually allergic to that stuff lol