moving

[xela]

It occurs to me I haven't posted about this: I'm moving, with (I hope) the main body of the move happening tomorrow.

Chris (my housemate, who owns the house where I live, in Somerville, but works in California) has decided to do his long-planned remodeling this summer. So we're all moving to a condo he owns about a mile away for the duration. Which makes for a strange sort of move: for one thing, I've got a month to do it in. For another, I'm packing on the basis of What do I need for the next six months? Because anything I take with me, I'm moving again in six months, but anything I don't take can just be stored in the part of the house that's not being torn up or in the garage for the duration.

I decided the best way to go about this was to move myself and the big stuff I'm definitely going to want first, and then spend the next few weeks packing everything else up, either to store or to move piecemeal.

So tomorrow, armed with a U-Haul cargo van, Matthew and I are going to test this theory. If all goes well, by this time tomorrow I'll be asleep in the very same bed that I am currently looking at longingly, a mile away.

Wish me luck.

Comments

[danj17.livejournal.com]

fun fun! on my last move, i paid double rent for a month to allow myself a month to move, and it made for a much less stressful experience.. i'd put stuff in boxes when i felt like it. when i was headed that way anyway, or when i had enough boxes to fill the trunk of my car, i took a trip to the new place. the actual "big stuff" move took 3 hours of gentle giant's time right at the end of the month...

(and as i'm sure you'll recall, i got back from the gentle giant move to find that we were getting kicked out of the zocalo anyway.. :-) )

i think your strategy is correct -- by moving the bed first, you'll be living at the new place immediately, and noticing what you don't have.. if you don't miss it in the first month, you can live without it for six..

[eccentrific.livejournal.com]

Paying double rent for at least a week or two is so very worthwhile.

[eccentrific.livejournal.com]

Good luck with your move!

I'd heard about it from Chris, but hadn't quite made the connection before that it meant you were moving too. :-)