been packing? No. Been packing.

[low_delta]

The last couple of nights, I've been trying to pack up the house. We've got a bunch of boxes, and I'm trying to get everything I can packed up, and taken upstairs, so I can find more stuff to pack. I've only been at it for two nights and the place looks like a disaster area. I'd like to work on it for much of the weekend, but we're going to be finishing up at Cyn's old place. I expect four trips with her car loaded. I hope that doesn't mean six. We were hoping that Cyn's sister would help us pack, because she's a professional, but she's not in any condition to be leaving the house. Maybe we can at least work out getting some boxes from her.

Moving is going to be stressful. I never understood why people thought moving was so stressful. I mean, it's a lot of hard work, and your life is disrupted for a few days - deal with it. But now I know it's because everyone comes to your house (if you're lucky) and looks at all your crap and tells you you should be getting rid of it and "why are we moving this stuff," and "the rumage sale is supposed to be *before* you move," etc. I cringe at this thought. Anybody who's ever been in my house knows I have things that no sane person would keep. Some of these things are odd antiques. Soem of them are simply unique and I have them for no other reason but that I could never get another. Some of them are things that other people jsut don't keep. Like magzines. I know for a fact that most people feel that magazines are disposable reading material. I feel that they are books. I still throw most of them away. I have boxes full. And of course, I keep things until they are beyond their uses. Like, completely worn out. So I'll get a lot of, "wow, you really need a new..."

So, um... anyhone going to be around on the eighteenth? Free lunch!

Comments

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

damn. you know what? i'm just stupid enough to WANT to come help,
but that's our new student orientation weekend and i'll be working!

i keep magazines that have a lot to offer reference-wise~
this means, to me, things like "real simple" and "oprah".
...stop laughing at me.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Just the other day, Cyn was saying that she thought you probably would offer to come help. While we'd love to see you, and would love the help, we think you should stay home. ;-)

Mostly, I keep photography mags. But also, I keep old magazines because they'll be really cool twenty years from now.
...stop laughing at me.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

I never understood how anyone could think moving is *not* stressful. The mere thought of moving motivates me to let go of increasingly more possessions - so I won't have to move them one day. I think of it as traveling light and leaving a small footprint. Still, Stuff Happens... and accumulates, even to people who aren't packrats. You have my sympathies.

Can Cyn's brother-in-law maybe help?

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

What's stressful about it? Just that it's a lot of work?

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

A lot of work, a lot of decisions, letting go, saying goodbye to a whole lot of history (both good and bad), making a fresh start, changing routines like daily commute, where you shop, maybe who your medical provider is. It's major change, and that's often stressful even if it's mostly positive.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Hm. Interesting.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

My first move was when I was 10 years old. I had to do nearly none of the work, we were moving to a bigger, nicer house 6 blocks away with a cool recreation room in the basement and bigger yards, and I definitely looked forward to it. When the time came to close up the old empty house for the last time, I surprised both myself and my mom by sitting down on the front step and crying! And then I fully enjoyed the new house (until moving out at age 18). Moving is simply stressful, that's all.

Both houses still show up in my dreams every now and then.

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I lived the same place till I went to college and sometimes (as a kid!) envied others who moved. But when the estate sold my mother's farm some years ago my sister, Joyce, and I felt a loss. We went to Iowa, took pictures of each other standing in a corn field, and scooped up a sample of dirt from the field. I never go to Iowa without driving past the farm and looking at it.

Since I turned 20, I have moved 11 times, mostly with the luxury of a moving truck and a packer for the fragile things. I also moved once in a milk truck with friends to help.

[ravengirl.livejournal.com]

man, i think moving has been the MOST stressful event
right after deaths in my life~
you change your habits, your way of life,
when you move~
new neighborhoods, new route to work,
new grocery store, etc.

i've always loved exploring new areas of cities i've lived in,
but it's stressful to change your whole world
every three or four years~

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

My brother-in-law is heading back down to Florida already.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Argh, Hurricane Ivan is also headed to Florida.

[cynnerth.livejournal.com]

Yes. Devonne and Stan are both painfully aware of that. The moving company is still insisting that he attempts the delivery.

[serendipity.livejournal.com]

Gack.

My parents decided to get out of there this time. They're flying almost all the way back to my house - this time to Reno to visit my sister, brother-in-law, and niece.

[sunshine-two.livejournal.com]

I think this means you're a pack rat ;)

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Because both of my parents are pack rats!

[marswalker.livejournal.com]

Yep. Moving can be hell. 2 moves ago, it took a 20' me-haul and a few trips with a '79 station wagon packed to the gills.
This last move I packed a me-haul trailer once, and the truck twice. Then the packers and movers came, and filled most of a big-rig moving truck. And I jettisoned somewhere near 10 yards of accumulata, including several boxes full of magazines I've had around for over 10 years. (science / technology mags.... feel free to laugh.)

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Why didn't you call and yell for cartons? I can get you some on Monday. Is that too late? It would be in the afternoon. Give me a call or e-mail me.

[low-delta.livejournal.com]

Maybe Cyn could stop by on her way home. We'll let you know what kind. I can probably get some from work, too, but I forgot on friday.

Thanks!

[roadskoller.livejournal.com]

Okey dokey. I'll get that carpet shield I was talking to Cyn about too. You'll also need tape. Call me when you know what's up.

[emschin.livejournal.com]

I think "letting go" is the hardest thing about moving. Even when I was telling my kids to go thru their rooms and "be ruthless" in disposing of things (and I was doing the same thing) it wasn't easy.

When I left the house on 41st and Center, I walked through it one last time and realized I had moved in with children and when I moved out my kids were pretty much on their own. I moved in still married (legally) and I moved out, divorced.

You're doing a lot of 'letting go' and it's bound to be stressful.