honestly I don't really mind moving the books, it's tedious but it's finite and as long as you don't get ambitious with box size then it's just a matter of ferrying them around.
It's furniture I hate dealing with. Taking it apart/rebuilding (or NOT taking it apart and hoping like heck it survives the transition in one piece), wondering if this is the year that I should finally get rid of the 13-year-old ikea futon couch or if it will make it through one more apartment, etc etc
Anything I can't lift just by myself stresses me out.
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Back around the time of the American Revolution, they had to pass a law making it illegal to burn your house down when you moved. Wood was cheap and nails were expensive imports, so it was easier to just pick them out of the ashes and use them to build a new house wherever you were going.
I think about that a lot every time it gets to the furniture phase of moving house.
Back around the time of the American Revolution, they had to pass a law making it illegal to burn your house down when you moved. Wood was cheap and nails were expensive imports, so it was easier to just pick them out of the ashes and use them to build a new house wherever you were going.
I think about that a lot every time it gets to the furniture phase of moving house.
This was one of those things where on hearing it I was gobsmacked.
Moving Day was a tradition in New York City dating back to colonial times and lasting until after World War II. On February 1, sometimes known as "Rent Day", landlords would give notice to their tenants what the new rent would be after the end of the quarter, and the tenants would spend good-weather days in the early spring searching for new houses and the best deals. On May 1, all leases in the city expired simultaneously at 9:00 am, causing thousands of people to change their residences, all at the same time.
In 1799, an observer commented that New Yorkers "are seized on the first of May, by a sort of madness, that will not let them rest till they have changed their dwelling." Because there were not enough cartmen to handle all the traffic, farmers would come from Long Island and New Jersey to rent out their wagons at high prices. By 1820, because of the large increase in the number of propertyless renters, Moving Day had become "pandemonium", with the streets gridlocked with wagons carting household goods. The tradition was still in force in 1848, when the Tenant League denounced it as a way for landlords to raise rents every year. The cost of moving was another concern, as cartmen sometimes charged more than the official rates set by city ordinances – people were known to pay up to a week's wages to be moved – and the truckman might, if the customer refused to pay on delivery, take their belongings to Police Headquarters, charging for the additional transportation.
At the height of Moving Day in the early 20th century, it was estimated that a million people in the city all changed their residences at the same time. Resistance to Moving Day was strong in the 1920s and 1930s, but it took the start of World War II to end the general practice, as the moving industry found it difficult to find able-bodied men to do the work.
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I did 5 moves in 3 years and it broke my spirit; I digitised my whole library after that and never looked back. Still have a number of big bookshelves in the old family home, but they will stay there until we burn the place down for the nails
The dock workers went on strike over Christmas, so I had basically a month of delays and the family living out of suitcases, but we’re progressing nicely now
I emptied a box of old IT nonsense over the new year break and got rid of most of it. Now there's only one box left. I've only been moved in for over 8 years so I think I'm doing well.
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I can’t wait to go from this small house to a bigger house so I can unpack everything and be like, “I need more stuff”
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any% strats right here
This speaks to me.
The biggest reason I never want to move again is having to go through packing all my books again.
It's furniture I hate dealing with. Taking it apart/rebuilding (or NOT taking it apart and hoping like heck it survives the transition in one piece), wondering if this is the year that I should finally get rid of the 13-year-old ikea futon couch or if it will make it through one more apartment, etc etc
Anything I can't lift just by myself stresses me out.
I think about that a lot every time it gets to the furniture phase of moving house.
This was one of those things where on hearing it I was gobsmacked.
It's not always May 1st for everyone, but it's been May 1st for me for a long while now and that's not an inaccurate description
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good times
I smugly packed my books into my suitcases so I could wheel them around instead of picking them up
I then pulled a butt muscle getting the larger suitcase downstairs
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
The dock workers went on strike over Christmas, so I had basically a month of delays and the family living out of suitcases, but we’re progressing nicely now
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better
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I'm using one as a stand for my tablet so I can watch stuff while on the crapper
We went from a much bigger house to a smaller house so we have a lot of boxes of stuff that just doesn’t fit.
I love buying stuff
Oof, we would not get along.
Edit: My favorite activity to do with my wife is go walk around a mall, identify things we like, and then go home having bought nothing.
Helps with birthday gifts a ton, too.
Well then we shall have to duel.
I will clean you and make sure your corpse is found in respectable condition.
Had a few years of being fully moved in at least
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I mean, I haven't hung the pictures up on the wall or anything. They're still just all leaning against furniture in the room with the boxes.
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Progress!
I'm ready to die now.
Satans..... hints.....
Satans..... hints.....
I’m not dismembering anyone
After the boxes.
Satans..... hints.....
Can we put the trauma back in the other now empty boxes?