It's a total pain in the arse. Especially since, what with comedy leases and things, I have to pack up and move to a mate's house today and tomorrow, stay there 'till Saturday, and then move to my real new home. And the first move is made without the help of a motorised vehicles.
I just thought I'd rant at you all. Carry on.
i feel your pain
I moved into a new house a couple of weeks ago- it took about 200 runs in my girlfriends subaru vivio(thats a very small car)
prepare yourself for the inevitable;
"I can't find the remote control", "oh shit it's broken" "did we pack that..."
" i wonder why I'm not getting any mail?"
I'm moving as well this weekend and my stupid leases would leave me homeless for a night if it wasn't for the fact no one is moving into my current place until September and tha landlady is giving us a few days good grace to get all the stuff out : )
Although this will be the first time I've moved house and been doing a full time job so it'll open up a new world of stress for me.
In six week's time we will be moving all our worldly goods (and there are a fair number of 'em), all the way across Europe to Cyprus.
So you can stop that complaining *right* now.
Don't even start me on this subject...
What a pity James *has* to move all his stuff to Cyprus...
For years I was sceptical of the benefits of home ownership because I believed a mortgage might make me a slave to a soul-destroying and unfulfilling job. But years of renting from private landlords and having to more and more stuff, accumulating furniture, and having to retrieve everything my partner and I had left at parents' houses since leaving home, and lug those items from one rented property to another, fimnally persuaded me it wasn't worth the hassle of moving any more.
That, and the fact that property prices were increasing to the point that if I didn't buy now then I never would be able to, pushed me to a point where I decided finally to buy a house, even if it meant taking an unfulfilling job to get a mortgage. After all, I could start looking for another one straight away, I thought.
That was three years ago, and nothing has changed, apart from having a great big mortgage on a house I'm very fond of, but which still isn't finished despite hours and hours of hard work that has demanded so much of my spare time it has - er - impeded my efforts to find more fulfilling employment and progress within my profession.
I suggest a bubble bath, a big fat spliffger and Little Fluffy Clouds.
(Or starting a revolution, tearing down the capitalist regime choking the life out of our planet and helping to construct a working socialist ideal, where robots do all the menial tasks, probably.)
HoU's post reads like an immediate future.. My immediate future?
I'm moving house today, this computer should really be unpluged and put in a box marked 'office'.
Right.
Now.
Yep, moving sucks. In the last five years I've moved from the UK to Norway, then Norway to Canada and back to Norway. Arrrrggghhh. That's not going to stop me from applying for a job in Hawaii, though :-)
James - I guess you got the shipping thing worked out then? Or are you doing this by mule-train? Anyway, good luck, fella! In fact good luck to all you movers!
I dream of time when they will start making houses that can fly.
Note to self:
It's best not to wake up with a hangover the day before you move as you'll end up moping around feeling sorry for yourself instead of packing and will have to do all the hard work in the middle of the night : (
my plan is to sell most of my possessions before i leave