moving that is. I warned you all last week that I would be using my blog for a venting session. Well here it is. This past week I have never endured so many sweat drops in my eyes (with contacts), headaches, bruises, stubbed toes and fingers, moments of confusion/frustration, waitress moments by taking everyone’s order for lunch, high heart rate and way too much family togetherness.
How many different ways are there to move a refrigerator? You either move it on something with wheels or you pick it up. How hard is that? Well the engineer-minded members of the family wanted to have a 2 hour discussion about the subject. Well that is fine, but it was predetermined that this would be the very first thing to go onto the truck. We only have the truck for 2 days and we must have everything out of the house in less than 24 hours. No time to pull out the intelligent measuring methods. That is when I “escaped” to another a room to figure out what would go on the truck next. Just a little hint of the frustrations of moving.
After a full day of loading the 26 foot truck twice (how do two people accumulate so much stuff in 3 years) in 95 degree very humid weather, who needs to go to the gym. I just thought the best about moving was loosing those 10 pounds. Negative, when I have had fast food Japanese, Zaxbys, Arbys, Dominos, Dukes Sandwich Co., etc. for the past 10 meals (lunch and dinner since Monday night) those pounds seem to still be there.
Closing at the lawyer’s office was by far the most dramatic part. The best part for me is that I was not sweating, dressed neat, sitting in a cushy chair with fantastic air conditioning. As a home seller you hope for your home to go to a nice person/family that is looking forward to having a new home and treating it with care. Not the case for us. In walks Mr. Toolbox. He has to own stock in Sears and be related to the Craftsman family. I was very disappointed and still am. For a few minutes we were afraid that he may walk away from closing. He understood from his agent that we would be leaving the refrigerator. From what I understand the refrigerator is not standard and can be used as a negotiating item. It was not written into the contract so our agent, Karen, stood up to Mr. Toolbox’s agent and put her foot down. Karen is awesome and if you need to move to G-Vegas, check out her site. We highly recommend her as an agent.
After closing, then it was time to unload. Thank goodness for friends and ones who have just moved or are getting ready to move. We are all helping each other. Unloading was much easier and took place later in the day so it was not as hot. Now it is just a matter of getting everything in place. That will for sure be a 6 month process. We barely survived and we will not be moving for a really long time. One of our neighbors is 83 and we say we will live here until we are his age. We’ll see how long that feeling lasts.
More stories to come soon about ET land (my place of employment) and my baby girls (my kitties Maggie and Sophie). Stay tuned….
How many different ways are there to move a refrigerator? You either move it on something with wheels or you pick it up. How hard is that? Well the engineer-minded members of the family wanted to have a 2 hour discussion about the subject. Well that is fine, but it was predetermined that this would be the very first thing to go onto the truck. We only have the truck for 2 days and we must have everything out of the house in less than 24 hours. No time to pull out the intelligent measuring methods. That is when I “escaped” to another a room to figure out what would go on the truck next. Just a little hint of the frustrations of moving.
After a full day of loading the 26 foot truck twice (how do two people accumulate so much stuff in 3 years) in 95 degree very humid weather, who needs to go to the gym. I just thought the best about moving was loosing those 10 pounds. Negative, when I have had fast food Japanese, Zaxbys, Arbys, Dominos, Dukes Sandwich Co., etc. for the past 10 meals (lunch and dinner since Monday night) those pounds seem to still be there.
Closing at the lawyer’s office was by far the most dramatic part. The best part for me is that I was not sweating, dressed neat, sitting in a cushy chair with fantastic air conditioning. As a home seller you hope for your home to go to a nice person/family that is looking forward to having a new home and treating it with care. Not the case for us. In walks Mr. Toolbox. He has to own stock in Sears and be related to the Craftsman family. I was very disappointed and still am. For a few minutes we were afraid that he may walk away from closing. He understood from his agent that we would be leaving the refrigerator. From what I understand the refrigerator is not standard and can be used as a negotiating item. It was not written into the contract so our agent, Karen, stood up to Mr. Toolbox’s agent and put her foot down. Karen is awesome and if you need to move to G-Vegas, check out her site. We highly recommend her as an agent.
After closing, then it was time to unload. Thank goodness for friends and ones who have just moved or are getting ready to move. We are all helping each other. Unloading was much easier and took place later in the day so it was not as hot. Now it is just a matter of getting everything in place. That will for sure be a 6 month process. We barely survived and we will not be moving for a really long time. One of our neighbors is 83 and we say we will live here until we are his age. We’ll see how long that feeling lasts.
More stories to come soon about ET land (my place of employment) and my baby girls (my kitties Maggie and Sophie). Stay tuned….
2 comments:
hee hee hee. Moving is one of the worst things in the whole wide world to do. Good thing you had help. Next time we move, we're hiring movers. I found out last time that I'm not good at the do-it-yourself move...
I highly recommend getting movers espcially for the big/heavy stuff (including the infamous refrigerator)!!
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