Moving stinks
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From: Blue Hill Township
Moving stinks
I have to start packing up all my stuff to move back home the first week of May. It just stinks having to pack everything up and try to fit it in my car to had back home. 
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From: Atlanta GA
A little while ago I moved six times in two years. The last move was 1400 miles, 12,000 pounds of stuff on the full 40 foot tractor trailer. That does not include the minivan and BII stuffed to the roofs. I hope not to repeat it anytime soon.
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From: Riverview, MI
The absolute worst moving experience I had, was when my Aunt decided to move on SUPERBOWL SUNDAY!!!!!! We started that mourning, was my dad, and uncle. We told my aunt to pack all of her "breakables" while we moved all of her big stuff earlier. It was an hour before game time, and we had all the big stuff done, but Kathy still hadn't gotten done with the breakables. My dad and uncle went down her shelves with a box, knocking everything into it, throwing the box out the door to me. She had way to much junk. We still had a beer open and everything in her new house by kick off. Now I'm not going to say what the stuff looked like, but it was moved. 
She still gets made to this day about that. She has never once asked us to help her move since though.
She still gets made to this day about that. She has never once asked us to help her move since though.
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From: Wichita, KS
I hate moving and I feel sorry for anyone who has to. After my parents divorced, my mom moved several times in just a few years. I finally got smart....helped her buy a mobile home. The last time she moved, about 240 miles to near Wichita (and in finest native Missourian fashion) we put the tires back on her house and moved the whole thing. Took a couple hours in the morning to get it ready, and a few hours the next day to settle her back in once the crew got it set.
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From: Montreal Canada
my mom didn't have a lot of money when we were growing up but she always had friends that helped us move which was awesome. you really know who your friends are when they spend a saturday moving your junk in their car
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From: The Big, Oregon
I'm moving this summer hopefully, and I am not looking forward to it. It's going to be a logistical nightmare- four trucks (hopefully just two by then) that will have to be trailered, more than a truckload of tools, plus all the houshold crap. I'm probably going to spend more on gas for the move than I will on the first mortgage payment.
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From: NW burbs of chicago
in college, The first year, I brought a suburban, a uhaul and my s10 full. That summer rented a storage unit, Then the next year, moved in from in town, same the third year, Had to rent a 17 foot uhaul truck to get 3 years worth of crap home 
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From: Southern MD
My two oldest kids graduated college on the same day, two years ago.
I helped them move back home. (Took a whole week and several trips with a U-Haul trailer!)
They put (seems like they threw) their stuff into the basement, then went off to conquer the world!
My daughter just bought and moved into a new house about 35 miles from here, and now, she 'claims' that she doesn't have enough room to take all of her 'stuff'!
I do believe that when I move out of this house, I'm only taking my pcs, guns, tools and my clothes. The new owners can "worry" 'bout the 'stuff'!
I helped them move back home. (Took a whole week and several trips with a U-Haul trailer!)
They put (seems like they threw) their stuff into the basement, then went off to conquer the world!
My daughter just bought and moved into a new house about 35 miles from here, and now, she 'claims' that she doesn't have enough room to take all of her 'stuff'!
I do believe that when I move out of this house, I'm only taking my pcs, guns, tools and my clothes. The new owners can "worry" 'bout the 'stuff'!
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From: West Valley Utah
Man ohhh man 00BlueOvalRanger, I can sure relate to the comment about "stuff". We bought my wife's parents house in the 80's. Around 3400 sq.ft. on 2 floors w/dbl garage. There's STUFF everywhere. Stuff from when the kids were kids, stuff accumulated over the 54 years the in laws were married. Our stuff, our kids stuff that they left when they married and moved and now on top of all that...grandkid STUFF!!
We have so much STUFF that it's STUFFED everyplace. If I make a flatspot (by clearing off and chucking stuff) it's overtaken by.....you guessed it....more STUFF! This stuff falls outta the sky. I'm sure I have stuff from people I don't even know. My garage is packed, I have an aisle to walk down one side. The attic is full but it doesn't matter cuz I can't get to the pull down ladder anyway. I cleaned up all around the tool shed, inside and out, cleaned the garage, made trips to the crusher, hauled 12,000 lbs of various metals to the recycler. Thought I did good....for a few weeks. Somehow it's all full of STUFF from the house but the house is still full, I'm so confused??
HELP!!!!!
We have so much STUFF that it's STUFFED everyplace. If I make a flatspot (by clearing off and chucking stuff) it's overtaken by.....you guessed it....more STUFF! This stuff falls outta the sky. I'm sure I have stuff from people I don't even know. My garage is packed, I have an aisle to walk down one side. The attic is full but it doesn't matter cuz I can't get to the pull down ladder anyway. I cleaned up all around the tool shed, inside and out, cleaned the garage, made trips to the crusher, hauled 12,000 lbs of various metals to the recycler. Thought I did good....for a few weeks. Somehow it's all full of STUFF from the house but the house is still full, I'm so confused??
HELP!!!!!
