Moving Day!

"BREADwagon" (BREADwagon) 05/27/2016 at 11:53 • Filed to: None

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After 18 months in Long Island City, it’s time to move! This is what I’ll be doing as I leave the craptacular apartment I’m in now...but with more lewd hand gestures.

Surprisingly, both the UHaul place and the storage place I need to drop off some furniture said that this weekend tends to be their busiest. I actually thought about it before and figured that, granted, this weekend would be crazy with traffic....but everyone’s going on vacation, not moving!

I cant wait to feel that UHaul v8

yitznewton > BREADwagon 05/27/2016 at 12:08

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I drove one of their 17-footers from Queens to our then-new pad in North Jersey. Weird feeling, going over uneven payment and feeling your entire base of worldly possessions wag back and forth behind you.

Aaron M - MasoFiST > BREADwagon 05/27/2016 at 12:17

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A couple of years ago I helped my parents move a UHaul of my grandmother’s stuff after she moved into a long-term care facility. We were driving from her old condo in Saratoga, NY to my parents’ house northwest of Boston. Well, we took I-90 but were stopped short of the state line because a tanker truck of something hazardous had overturned and closed the entire eastbound highway. Most of the local routes that bypassed the interstate were snarled with traffic, due to the accident. After consulting with my parents, we decided that if the traffic wasn’t going to let up any time soon (it wasn’t), the quickest way home would be to backtrack about ten miles and head north to Troy, NY, where we would then jump on route 2. Route 2 didn’t become limited access highway until well into Massachusetts, but it was still better than sitting in traffic.

My mother and I were driving my Dad’s Honda Accord, while my dad was driving the UHaul. We made it back to Troy with no problems, found Route 2 and even got across the border into Massachusetts. This is where a better map may have come in handy. Route 2, from the New York border until I-91 in Greenfield, is a snaking mountain road with no shoulders and limited visibility.

And as it started getting dark, it also started to snow.

Long story short, as you’re wearing yourself out moving all your stuff, just remember that you weren’t wrestling a UHaul down a mountain pass in the snow...like my Dad.

Manny05x > BREADwagon 05/27/2016 at 12:55

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Are you leaving ny all together?

Moves-Like-Senna > BREADwagon 05/27/2016 at 14:05

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Due to moving a few times in the past month I’ve used Uhaul all three times (one way rentals) and have one pro tip:

ALWAYS TAKE A PHOTO OF THE FOUR SIDES OF THE TRUCK BEFORE AND AFTER.

This will save your but if the returning location tries to blame anything on you. Also, sorry but the V8 is sad but if you have the truck empty please hit speed bumps at high rates of speed. The truck bucks and even better, at about 35-40MPH I was about to get the back end right up haha.

BREADwagon > Moves-Like-Senna 05/27/2016 at 18:19

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Excellent pointer I’ll definitly remember to take pics of the truck...and I will hit those bumps when it’s empty!

BREADwagon > Manny05x 05/27/2016 at 18:19

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To the dirty jerz!

Manny05x > BREADwagon 05/28/2016 at 11:20

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Haha nice congrats I'm thinking of leaving ny to go to Connecticut or jerZ.