"Aremmes" (aremmes)
03/09/2020 at 11:30 • Filed to: junk in the trunk, movinglopnik, Houselopnik
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"Aremmes" (aremmes)
03/09/2020 at 11:30 • Filed to: junk in the trunk, movinglopnik, Houselopnik | 0
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With two weeks to go before closing on the new
garage
house, I’ve been packing some less essential things and putting them in storage to make the move go more quickly and easily. This is a 10'x10' space, which I’m renting after moving from a 5'x10' a week ago. Normally this would be an opportunity to get rid of things that we can dispose of, which would whittle this pile down to maybe half. Doing so, however, would require consensus from SWMBO who, despite knowing that we have Too Much Shit©, won’t put in the effort to sort through the junk and remove what she won’t need, yet if I throw something out I will definitely hear from her when she finds out and decides she wanted to keep it. Like that stupid exercise bike-lliptical POS that she used maybe three times.
I figure all of this will go in the truck and make it all the way to the new house to get sorted in the garage to either keep, store, do a yard sale, donate, or trash. It's gonna be a busy week.
Chuckles
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 11:41 |
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It’s hard to get motivated when you’re moving into a bigger space. Our last move was from a 2 bedroom apartment into a 3 bedroom house with a finished basement and a 2 car garage. When I was packing, my mantra was basically “throw it all on the truck! We’ve got room for everything and I can’t deal with this shit now!" 3 years later and we still have crap in the basement that isn't unpacked. I suspect it'll stay there until our next move, which will absolutely be to a smaller place.
ttyymmnn
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 11:54 |
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Moving sucks. You never realize how much shit you have until you try to put it all in one place.
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Aremmes
> Chuckles
03/09/2020 at 11:55 |
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Oh, I understand this notion completely, which is why I plan on staging everything not furniture in the garage: it either gets sorted before it goes into the house
or it goes right back out, and I'll want the garage space back sooner or later. And they know I'll do it.
jminer
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 12:00 |
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My wife and I are preparing to move as well - it’s a bitch to go through all of this stuff. We made the mistake 10 years ago when we moved here to not go through everything. This time we decided to go through everything - which has led to like 3/4 of it leaving the house, a fair bit of it things we moved to years ago and hadn’t touched since!
Chariotoflove
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 12:05 |
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My wife and I were talking last night about our usual fantasy of what house we would aspire to if we could afford it. Then I brought up that we would have to move. My wife is compulsive about packing but would be too disabled to do it all herself. We agreed we’d have to get movers to pack the stuff and heavy sedation for her.
haveacarortwoorthree2
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 12:09 |
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I thought my wife and I actually did a decent job of throwing stuff out/donating stuff before we moved. Then I discovered while unpacking that we moved so much crap from Texas to Florida that it looked like we hadn’t even made an effort to sort through our stuff.
shop-teacher
> haveacarortwoorthree2
03/09/2020 at 12:16 |
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In my mid- 20's I had a period where I moved eight times in 14 months. Each time I packed, I got rid of a bunch of stuff. E ach time I unpacked, I got rid of more. Still, upon unpacking after that eight move, I found a bunch of stuff that I was simply astounded had made the cut that many times!
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shop-teacher
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 12:17 |
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Might I suggest you “accidentally” lose a bunch of it? I know there will be hell to pay, but it might be worth it.
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Aremmes
> shop-teacher
03/09/2020 at 12:30 |
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That’d be nice, but it would only encourage her to get more stuff. I plan on forcing her to come face to face with the i
nsurmountable m
ountain of c
rap as a reminder to put the brakes on the relentless pursuit of more crap.
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shop-teacher
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 12:40 |
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I wish you well in that pursuit . My wife is very good at getting rid of things ... but also is quite adept at replacing those things with more things.
Snuze: Needs another Swede
> Aremmes
03/09/2020 at 14:17 |
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Pro tip - Put all of the boxes in the living room. Everything, unload it from the moving car/truck/trailer directly into the living room. NO boxes are allowed to get moved into any room. EVERYTHING must be unpacked. This will absolutely force you to look through everything and either find it a home or find it a place in the trash/donate/yardsale pile(s). Or just live with boxes in your living room right where everyone will see it when they come into your house and you’ll be forced to explain to them why all your stuff is piled up in the living room.
We did this when we moved from our 1 bedroom apartment to our 4 bedroom house with garage and unfinished basement and it was mostly succ essful. We did end up putting a couple boxes in the basement, but they were all holiday decoration stuff. And our “office” still has some piles of junk, but it’s about 50% less than the junk we moved into the house, s o it’s at least progress. Of course then we got screwed when my in-laws rolled up with a truck load of stuff that they “ found in the basement that belongs to Mrs. Snuze”. Translation - most of it is their shit they didn’t want to deal with and offloaded onto us. That did end up going into the nice, open, empty basement that was free of boxes because we followed the system above. So much for the plan, b ut for like 6 months it was really good!