diabeticman (1,948 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:07 PM
packing for the move: My wife is obsessing about the way we pack this time... Last 2 apartments
we basically had to throw things in boxes and going. This time my wife wants to repack most of the stuff that was pack so she can catalog and organize boxes.
We have packed 22 boxes and we still feel like we are behind the 8 ball of packing.
so my wife text her sister and a friend tonight:
Anyone know of some sort of spell I can say to make all this stuff pack itself? Anyone know Sam's magic twitch or Jeannie's head bob to make this easy? Friday night fun...packing...(sigh) have to get back to work
So far she has gotten an LOL back.
My wife's sister also told her she is causing too much work for herself by cataloging. My wife feels safer because it will allow her to know where everything is since half of our stuff will be stored at my Grandmother's -now-Brother's house.
Would you do what my wife is doing or is my sister in law right...
anyone got a funny story about moving or just any type of story?
fizzgig (20,230 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:09 PM
1. marry a mover
my husband has packed and moved our last two moves. all i do is clean.
elleng (47,320 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:35 PM
2. Nothing funny about moving,
but 2 friends helped me pack my deceased husband's stuff, over weeks, and I finally paid mover to pack kitchen stuff I couldn't face.
I don't obsess over stuff tho, so that helps me.
TexasTowelie (9,025 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:48 PM
3. I prefer to have it well organized and labeled.
When I moved from the home of my deceased father, everything was organized and it was very easy for me to determine what I needed to unpack without wasting much time afterwards.
When I left my apartment in Irving, it was one of those situations that you described, most things were packed in a disorderly fashion and I'm constantly having to search for smaller items. I've eliminated about 70% of my possessions since October of last year so that the largest items that I have are two footlockers, the boxes for my computer and printer, one bookshelf and a bicycle. I'll have about 18 plastic bins and the two footlockers wherever I get settled next. I could probably stack my possessions in about a 40 square foot room and the heaviest items are a few plastic bins with books and my grandmother's set of china. Nothing weighs more than about 50 pounds.
Along the way, I eventually dumped a washer/dryer set since I didn't have WD connections, a sleeper sofa, the old dining room table, and the queen size box spring/mattress since they were over 20 years old. I donated about 4 plastic bins of clothing to the Red Cross and have another bin to donate.
Leme (232 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:58 PM
4. if you get along well
and visit brother every week...try
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take a box , bring a box
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if pressed for time now, just pack everything, and every week take a box from storage at your brother's, take it home, catalog it..make as detailed list as you want
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next week when you go to brother's house...switch the catalogued box with a new one
femmocrat (16,388 posts) Sat May 24, 2014, 10:17 PM
5. We used "color coding" -- easier than cataloging every little thing.
Blue sticker = bathroom, etc. Then number in order of importance!
I am by nature an organizer, but not obsessively so.
<<< Disappointed the DUmmies aren't moving out of the country.
<<<knows; has helped primitives move before.
Does it really count that you helped Andy move from the hospital to the cemetery? :-)
Does it really count that you helped Andy move from the hospital to the cemetery? :-)
I think we can say 'yes' to that. :-) :whistling:
zzgig (20,230 posts) Fri May 23, 2014, 10:09 PM
1. marry a mover
my husband has packed and moved our last two moves.