Moving Is A Pain In The ____

Thankfully i have been living in the same apartment for 7 years now. When i was younger i lived in a lot of different houses/apartments. From the time i was 10-16 i had lived in every town/city in Brunswick County NC, so i know what a pain in the butt it can be. While packing to move i picked up the habit of saving key things i used to pack for the last day, i was always having to dig through boxes to find something i needed; i was also big on organizing and labeling my boxed to find stuff in case i needed it. After moving is the biggest pain the butt, because not only do you have to unpack and find a new home for everything you have to learn where everything is. Every time i would have to move i always said "i hope i don't have to move for a long time" it never happened. I think living in the same place for 7 years is compensating for that :)

i moved in Febuary. i moved into a 2 bedr. mobile home, some furniture,collections, keepsakes,etc. and im a pack rat. moved from a 3 bedr. house! now, i still cant find anything, no place to put anything away. why im in need of getting back on ebay.lol

It's been two years since we moved, but looking forward (catch the sarcasm? lol) to moving next year. My s/o is looking at buying a house, and while he gets the 'easy' part......it will be me who does all the packing, unpacking, etc. The part I don't like is the packing, specially the kitchen. I don't mind unpacking at a new place, getting to arrange things, and decorating the new place.

I feel for ya! I have been needing to move out of this small duplex into something bigger for a couple years now but the thought of packing and moving everything just makes me put it off. I just HATE moving!!

hi chevee its really painful to move from one place to another. packing.................... my god then unpacked... from so much time we were not moving. first my father was in service. so due to transfer we have to move . so many times we did this. take care.

I know!! I hate moving! Yet, I'm a military wife, and we're going to be moving quite a few times in the next couple of years... yay! lol. The last time we moved was back in February. We moved in with my parents (for various reasons, one being my husband thought he was going to be deployed). Anyways, we moved from our apartment to my parents house & I was 8 months pregnant (with twins)! Luckily we had help, and my hubby's sister helped him clean our apartment to give me a break. It was super confusing, because half of our things were going to his parents' house to be stored (things we wouldn't need at my parents') and I had a hard time remembering which box went where.

yea,i know,it was horrible experience for me too.we had to move a few years back.at that time i had a small kid also.

Moving is a pain, but try moving about 5 times in 3 years, then getting a place of our own only to have it hit by a tornado spun from the hurricane passing by, and then having to wade through the destrustion to look for anything that could be saved in 90 degree heat. Moving into a one room apartment untill we could find a house. 2 weeks later moving into a temporary house, and 5 months later moving to a permanent place, only to lose everything that we had to another hurricane. Our next move was to Ohio, where I rented a place temporarly in Cedarville, only to move a year later to where I am now. I am near my kids that lives and work up here. My husband begs everyday to go back to Louisiana. But you know what I am in a nice place, I have put together a nice place and I'm not going anywhere. The place I have decided to make my home, may not be where he was born and raised but it is safe and nice and I will not go back to that place where I have to several times a year pack and move out most of my belonging to only have to go back a few days later and put everything back on the walls and maybe a month later do it again. Each move gets harder and harder. And yes I seen where someone was complaning that the mother in law had unpacked and put their kitchen stuff away and they had to change it all. She should of been happy that someone cared enough to help at all, several times I made the move all by myself, untill we got to the heavy things, I would of give anything to have someone help me. I can always go back and rearrange where I want it later. As long as it was our of the box was all that mattered.

Well I hate moving but it has been decided that we need the room and a 3 bedroom house is not going to cut it any more here. I love the area and the neighbors and will be sad to see them go but I definitely need to get a bigger house that has more rooms. We're looking for a 4 bedroom house to move into because the room that we have with this place is small and not worth what we are paying a month. 485 for a 3 bdrm when I can get a 4 bedromm for 400 a month. grrrr. So now it's off to hunt again for a bigger place. When we moved into this house I knew it was temporary until we found a bigger place but you know , but I got use to it here and I love the neighbors and my kids love neighbor they have friends and are enjoying being here it will be sad to go but my older daughter needs her own room so that she doesn't have to share it with her 4 and 5 yr old sisters. LOL!!!

I hating moving as it is such a headache. The last time I moved was 2 years ago when I bought my house. It was a terrible year for moves though. We moved twice in 6 months and somewhere along the line we seem to have lost stuff. The first move we packed everything so carefully and planned it so carefully yet I think we still ended up leaving things behind because there is stuff we cannot find that we know we used to have. We had been sharing a house with a friend and we must have left somethings there but the move was hundreds of miles and there was no way we were going to go back for the odd item. That move was stressful but we had heaps of time to plan and pack so we did not over do it. It was a long move that one so we hired a proper removal company to help. They cost a bit but they were so good with moving all the furniture. We had moved into a rental property in the new area we wanted to live in until we bought a house and then wow 6 months later we found the right house for a price we could afford so it was time to move again. That move was not fun. It just seemed that we had to do everything so quickly. I was sick and not much help. This time we moved as much as we could ourselves by the car load and it was so tiring. We did hire a truck for the big items though as we were just not able to move it ourselves. Now I would be quite happy to stay where I am but I suspect I will have to move again one day but not for years yet I hope. I love the house and I really hate moving. Besides anywhere I went would be smaller and I just hate to have to give up my furniture.

Yes, I agree, moving really is a pain. I have already moved three times within one year. Last December 2008, I moved to a condominium unit and my contract was only for six months as I was not yet sure if I would be happy with the place. Well, I was happy there but the owner sold it and the new owners did not want to extend my contract anymore. Sadly, I had to find a place within a month, which was really difficult as on that specific month, I had to go in an out-of-town assignment and I really did not have the time to look for a new place. I had a friend who would leave her current apartment, which I really like, as she has to go work abroad, but not for another month yet, so I had to really look for a place to stay for a month. Good thing I had another friend who was staying in a dormitory and they accept transient boarders, so it was alright for me to stay for just a month. But, I had to transfer all my things from the condominium unit to the dormitory, and then after a month, transfer it all again to my new apartment. It was very difficult and very tiring. Well, may be it is also kind of my fault because I have so many things which are really not important according to my boyfriend, but really important to me, who is also having difficulties since he was helping me move. Now, I have already moved to my new apartment, and hopefully I would not encounter any more problems there and stay there for a while.

I have my permanent place already. But moving is really hard for me before. There are lots of factors to be considered. You get to adjust with your new environment and finding new friends. Some people even state you head to foot when they see your new in the town. I don't really like that much attitude as I feel like I'm melting with the way they stare. As much as possible, I will refrain myself from moving out, its hard for me.

Yes, moving is crazy! I just moved with my family from Southern California to Oregon and it was insane. It was exhausting and very expensive. The driving part was almost hysterical because we had three cars, three dogs, and baby! Crazy! We also had a horrible experience with the moving company. They did not explain extra charges for crating large paintings and taking our big screen tv proberly. The day the moving company came he told us there were going to be these extra charges. Yet, the way it was explained to us on the phone was that the crating and tv were already included in the price. They were listed on our invoice so one would assume they were included. They also did not tell us that we had to box up our very large screen tv. We understood that they would take care of that. On top of it all even after we took some items off not to take, not all our stuff fitin their truck and we had to leave a bunch of clothes and some furniture behind. They had an inventory list of everything ahead of time. We did borrow a family member's trailer to take some of the rest of our stuff, but still had to leave some furniture and things behind. There is a funny part to this story. We had had a garage sale a few days before. There were some ladies that lived across the street that bought a few things from us. The funny thing was that they were selling their house too. Anyhow, they bought some metal shelves from our garage and wanted us to take them apart and bring them over to their house. Like we had nothing better to do. When the older lady came over the next day to pay for them she followed my father in law into the backyard toinstead of going to the front door. Mind you, we do not personally know these people. Anyhow, he told her to go the front and ring the doorbell to talk to his wife. He had to tell her about three times before she left and after taking her own personal visual inventory of our backyard. So we let her in the front door to chat. My mother in law was talking to her about the payment and she just started walking around the house and asking if we had anything else we wanted to sell. She actually asked if we wanted to sell some of our very expensive artwork on the walls. Yeah, ok. So, the next day my father in law drove the large shelves in his truck over to her house and the lady was a pain then too. She kept having my father in law move the shelves to a couple different places because she could not find room for them. My father in law wanted to ring her neck! This was not the end of the ladies either. The day before we left we went and said goodbye to some family in town. The moving company had come and left. We had taken all our cars out seperately to visit these family members, yet are three dogs were still on the side of the yard. We had a white rocking chair that was on our front porch that would not fit in the truck, thus it ws left behind. When we returned home it was gone. There was a note on the door from the ladies across the street saying they took it. They said they were sorry, but did not know if we were going to sell it or not. They said they would pay for it too. They came over in the morning before we left and wanted to buy it. I told them that was stealing. They said they thought we were already gone and saw some other people about to take it, so they took it. Yeah, right. Our three dogs were still there and bark when anyone comes around. My mother in law let them keep it, but they did give us some money for it. I did chew them out though and told them that was stealing and that we had just been through hell with the moving company. Crazy ladies. The moving company part also made us some upset and we were all so exhausted that that night we all were yelling at each other, ready to kill each other, and all slept alone in seperate rooms that night. My mother in law was in one room, my father in law in one, my husband in one, and myself and my baby in another. We made up in the morning, but what a nightmare!

The problem is we have to many possessions. Life's road is easier the less we have to carry. Discard the things you don't need and moving will become much easier.

I was in the Marine Corps for more than 21 years, so I moved a lot. I've been retired now for 11 years and I've probably moved just as many times during those 11 years as I did when I was on active duty. I HATE MOVING. But guess what? I'll probably be doing it again in the next two months or so!

I moved two and half years ago and it was a colossal pain in the rear. Every other time before I moved, I had been pretty good about going through things every year and getting rid of things we didn't need any more. This last time I hadn't done it in a really long time. Then the move was so fast we didn't have time to really do it before we moved. So we ended up taking a whole lot of things that we really shouldn't have. I hope I don't ever have to move again. Yech.

We moved 10 years ago and I hope that I never have to move again in my life.. It is one of the hardest things to have to do and I honestly hated doing it.. If I could afford professional movers, then I would have hired them, but I couldn't and we had to do all of the work for ourselves.. We also had quite a bit packed way before the move but it still didn't seem to make it any easier..

I remember the time when we have to move into a new office. When I was still a student assistant, the office that I worked for was relocated to the basement of a certain building. Problem is that office that I'm working is the records section so it means that there are a lot of files way back from the 80's are needed to be moved too. The movers didn't allow to keep the records in the filing cabinets so we have to remove all the drawers and have them transported, separately form the cabinets. Of course the moment they reached the new location, we have to rearrange again the files and it was really painstaking. It took almost a week just to get the files in the proper places.

You tell me about it. I am a teacher and for the past 3 years I have already moved thrice. Hmmmm, very tiring and lot of work should be done. packing and unpacking is just not my liking and I still haven't opened the boxes that I pack since I moved from my first house.