Moving Sucks!!

[Russell Nash]

Adding to the This Sucks topics.  We're moving to a different part of town in a week.  You really never know how much total shit you have until you need to put it all in boxes. 

[CammoBlammo]

I hear that. We move in less than three weeks. We've decided we have way too much crap, so we're turfing a lot of it. The problem is that a lot of it is still in boxes from our last move (January last year.)

So we have to unpack those boxes, throw out the stuff we don't want, then pack it all again.

It is a little bizarre, though, seeing the sum total of your possessions neatly boxed and stacked in a shed.

[CGFxColONeill]

ya pretty much
I have moved way more times that I care to count atm ( somewhere over 10 times ) and ya it is kinda weird to see all your stuff in the back of a truck and go wow that was way to much stuff

the worst part of moving is the pre move yard sale

[Darwinist]

....and why do I keep so much crap?  I gotta throw some of this stuff away.  I've got more books on my shelves than I've got years to read.   My kids are going to have fun moving or throwing away all this crap after croak. 

[wakela]

....and why do I keep so much crap?  I gotta throw some of this stuff away.  I've got more books on my shelves than I've got years to read.   My kids are going to have fun moving or throwing away all this crap after croak. 

My father passed a away and several years later I was going through some stuff that his second wife (not my mom) had saved.  She had this painting of him and his first wife.  She said, "I can't think of anyone who would want this now, but I couldn't bring myself to throw it away, so I just stuck it in the closet.  You can take it and stick it in a closet, then when you die your kids can throw it out."

I read that Cory Doctorow is going minimalist.  he actually gives all his old books to charity and second hand bookstores.  On the remote chance he ever needs one again he can always buy it for just a few bucks.  Though when I moved (from the US to Japan, no less) and donated a bunch of books it made me really sad for some reason.

[Russell Nash]

I only keep big photography books.  Normal paperbacks just good to the 2nd hand store.  There's a really great one near my parents.  Whenever I visit I stop in a swap out my stuff.  But even with this "minimalist" approach the bookshelves took over five hours and around 20 boxes. 

[Listener]

I almost want to move just so I can get my wife to understand how much crap has followed us through five houses.  Seriously, her college textbooks (from the late 90s) are in our garage, in a felt bag, and will never, EVER be thrown away.

[Tango Alpha Delta]

We all need a good Craphound to come through and liberate us from our junk!

Good rule of thumb: if it's still in a box 6 months after you've moved, you don't need it. 

[Darwinist]

We all need a good Craphound to come through and liberate us from our junk!

Good rule of thumb: if it's still in a box 6 months after you've moved, you don't need it. 

A Craphound would come in handy.  I don't have the gumption to put on a garage sale and half the stuff wouldn't sell anyway.  This thread has motivated me to take action on the piles of stuff I've accumulated - an early spring cleaning project.   I will liberate myself from the chains of crap! 

[Listener]

We all need a good Craphound to come through and liberate us from our junk!

Good rule of thumb: if it's still in a box 6 months after you've moved, you don't need it. 

A Craphound would come in handy.  I don't have the gumption to put on a garage sale and half the stuff wouldn't sell anyway.  This thread has motivated me to take action on the piles of stuff I've accumulated - an early spring cleaning project.   I will liberate myself from the chains of crap! 

We made about $150 on our last garage sale -- four hours of work, and it was a neighborhood sale so people had a reason to come all the way around the corner and into the cul-de-sac.  We sold a ton of books, CDs, and old Archie comics, and also my old kitchen table, which was a nice bonus.

You never know what you'll be able to get rid of...

[Chodon]

I'm not usually one to brag, but I got pretty good at moving.  I had to do it every three months in college because we had three month work terms, then three month school terms.  Every three months I had to load all my earthly posessions into my pontiac 6000LE and drive two hours, then unload it all.  By the end of five years I got so I could load my car in about half an hour.  It served me well when I moved into my first house.  It made me realize what I really can and can't live without for three months.

[Russell Nash]

We all need a good Craphound to come through and liberate us from our junk!

Good rule of thumb: if it's still in a box 6 months after you've moved, you don't need it. 

A Craphound would come in handy.  I don't have the gumption to put on a garage sale and half the stuff wouldn't sell anyway.  This thread has motivated me to take action on the piles of stuff I've accumulated - an early spring cleaning project.   I will liberate myself from the chains of crap! 

We made about $150 on our last garage sale -- four hours of work, and it was a neighborhood sale so people had a reason to come all the way around the corner and into the cul-de-sac.  We sold a ton of books, CDs, and old Archie comics, and also my old kitchen table, which was a nice bonus.

You never know what you'll be able to get rid of...

I Ebayed a bunch of stuff and then put everything else on Freecycle.com (actually .de).  Almost everything else is gone or going out the door.