primitives discuss moving

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1018620370

Oh my.

You know, it's pretty pathetic when the Lounge, of all places, has the primitives discussing issues of more substance than what's to be found in General Discussion.

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.

Too bad the fizzy one doesn't clean up herself.

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.

^^^the husband-hating primitive.

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.

<<<has moved plenty of times in life, although not recently.

<<<always just boxed up things the most compact way, even if it meant "mixing up" items.

<<<always found it easy, just opening up a box and looking inside of it, to know where the stuff's supposed to go.

I however suspect there's an untold part to these primitive anecdotes; I'll bet usually they haven't packed a damned thing until their friends came over to move the stuff.....and find nothing's ready to go.

<<<knows; has helped primitives move before.

[vesta111]

Here is a subject dear to my heart.     

They do send professional movers to the homes of military familys moving from base to base and it can become a bitch for both the packers and the movers.

We just stand back, the packers come in and start grabbing the first thing they see.  Boxes are labled by room and when one gets to new duty station then becomes the fun, unpacking to find in the kitchen box a half full garbage bag was packed, bedroom box has small garbage can with used rubbers and the contents of a dirty laundery basket.

Sometimes full ashtrays are packed and in one case I was told of a box of dress whites had a cast iron pan on top thrown in.  Lot's of interesting storys about how the system worked at the time, any damage was reimbursed by weight of the object not replacement.   

After that one first move we learned to box valuables ourselves and forget the advice to just stand back. As we were given a two day notice on when the movers would arrive often we were caught with no warning when they came in the middle of a meal and packed unwashed dishes or the just washed wet clothing in the washer.

Going especially with a herd of kids  cross country by car or over seas by plane one could not take much with them so life was an adventure.   

[longview]

<<< Disappointed the DUmmies aren't moving out of the country.

[franksolich]

<<< Disappointed the DUmmies aren't moving out of the country.

I'm sure this is something sort of up your own alley, madam.

Doesn't it drive you nuts when you offer to help somebody move, and show up at the appropriate time, only to see they haven't packed a damned thing, that nothing's ready to go?

[thundley4]

<<<knows; has helped primitives move before.

Does it really count that you helped Andy move from the hospital to the cemetery?   

[franksolich]

Does it really count that you helped Andy move from the hospital to the cemetery?   

 

[BlueStateSaint]

Does it really count that you helped Andy move from the hospital to the cemetery?   

I think we can say 'yes' to that.

[franksolich]

I think we can say 'yes' to that.

What grosses me out is, back on Discussionist, in the Mr_Scorpio-franksolich thread, a primitive posted an image of the late red round one.....black-framed.

The primitives always black-frame images of the late red round one, as if they're used as icons or something.

[franksolich]

You know, that's really disturbing.

Now, only God, and only God, knows the true worth of each individual, but as a human, I don't think the late red round one was appealing at all; he looked pretty shifty, pretty fake.

I wouldn't only not buy a used car from this guy, I wouldn't even ask him the time of the day.

The above's the one that's black-framed, as if an icon.

[Chris_]

"On-Line Investigator"

[GOBUCKS]

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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.

It all fits in the trunk of her '94 Celica.