I do not consider myself an expert mover.\u00a0 I did not grow up with a parent in the military, nor was I in the military myself.\u00a0 However, I’ve moved six times now since I was 21 under a variety of conditions — having a leisurely month to pack, finding out a house has been sold out from underneath us and we had to move immediately, combining a three person household into a six person household, having to move 8 months pregnant, finding the right house on a whim and having to move in two weeks, moving 500 miles, moving seven blocks….<\/p>\n
I find these damned moving advice sites to be worse than useless.\u00a0 I have not once<\/strong> used professional movers, and have bought at the most six specialty boxes for odd items.\u00a0 I do not buy<\/strong> enough boxes to move.\u00a0 I cannot think <\/strong>of a more useless expense except under the most unique of circumstances.<\/p>\n While I do not color code boxes, yes, the advice on making it very clear what box goes where is only smart.\u00a0 However, that seems a little obvious to me.\u00a0 If you’ve enlisted some husky friends, and are feeding them beer as a bribe, ya need to make things short and obvious.<\/p>\n Another thing on the blisteringly obvious list — loading the truck so that things that need to be unpacked right away are the first things to leave the truck.\u00a0 Oh and that thing about not loading a box to weigh more than fifty pounds?\u00a0 Again this falls into the “no shit” category.\u00a0 A big, strong guy can lift fifty pounds and carry it (hell, so can I), but if you’ve got a copier paper box, don’t load it up heavier than the eight reams of copy paper that is supposed to go into it.\u00a0 The box is only designed to take<\/strong> that much weight.\u00a0 Filling a banana box full of textbooks is mean<\/strong> to the people helping with your moving, even if they can <\/strong>lift it.<\/p>\n The thing about having services switched on before you get there?\u00a0 Again, DUH!\u00a0 I don’t know about you, but I do not<\/strong> want to live out of a cooler for longer than I have to and battery powered lamps just ain’t gonna cut it for light when you’re unpacking after dinner.\u00a0 (If you’re moving a fridge, you might have to for a day or two.\u00a0 You do want to make sure the confounded thing is clean before you move it).<\/p>\n It’s the esoteric stuff that’s more useful.\u00a0 Things like —<\/p>\n This is the kind of thing I find more useful than color coded boxes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I do not consider myself an expert mover.\u00a0 I did not grow up with a parent in the military, nor was I in the military myself.\u00a0 However, I’ve moved six times now since I was 21 under a variety of conditions — having a leisurely month to pack, finding out a house has been sold … <\/p>\n\n