Two Saturdays ago, we hired Joey's Movers for our first big push to get the big stuff out of our apartment and into our new house. Since then we've been sleeping, showering, and eating in the old place, while working in the new place. Our kitchen is getting there, the dust is slowly settling, and our new home office is all set up. Tomorrow marks the last half of our move...
AT on . . . Moving Day
This time we'll be renting our own truck and hauling out our bed, clothes, kitchen stuff. Have we finished packing it all? No. Are we totally overwhelmed? Yes. But we also know that on Sunday morning we'll experience our first day truly living in a new place. The tense straddle between two lives/two homes/the history and the future, will be calmed.
Just as Sarah wrote about the pressure to be perfect, we really thought we'd be a lot more on top of moving/packing organization. Things aren't too bad, but it seems fair to say that the month of overlap we had between the two places actually made it harder in some ways to efficiently tie up loose ends and get newly organized. A little bit every day can be a good thing, but now that we're down to the wire it is definitely a hard thing.
For anyone with impending moves, take it in stride. Plan/organize as much as you can in advance, and remember that there are much harder things to do. Everyone's done this before, you've done it before, so don't freeze and panic and feel like your world is crumbling. This type of change can be jarring, but it's important to find a good stride and enjoy what the move brings: a chance to toss stuff, clean, re-evaluate, and start anew.
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Moving can be a great time to go through all of your stuff and really assess what you need. Alot of times people throw stuff in a closet and completely forget they have it. Of course it can also be a great time to uncover hidden treasures that you forgot you had.
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I found it was easy to put things I wanted in a box, and toss things I wasn't sure about in another box (or seven). I'd move it all, but if I hadn't opened those seven boxes in a couple months I obviously didn't need what was in them. So I'd give the stuff away or pitch it.
I think it's easier to remove the emotional ties to something when you're not dealing with the trauma of a move, as well (with it's deadlines and costs!).
The only move I've had time and ability to do this BEFORE moving was luckily when my apt lobby had a 20 ft long counter. I made five trips to put stuff out and I put up signs that everything was free. I ended up giving my mattress and boxspring to a maintenance man, and my microwave to one of the movers! Felt wonderful!
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I think that the spread out move is a lot harder on everyone involved. When Emily and I moved into our first place together we had a two week overlap, and lord knows we used every day of that two weeks, and that was just too damn long. We languished in a sea of cardboard boxes, unable to make a big push to unpack everything. When we moved again, we only had the weekend, so on friday the truck was loaded, saturday morning it was unloaded (and loaded again and unloaded again...) and on Sunday we were all moved in. It did take a while to get everything unpacked, but it was worth it to not have to straddle two places and to think about getting "just one more carload after work today".
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