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Well, the time has finally come! I'm moving about 250 miles the Saturday after next (on the 12th). All in one trip, of course. My roommate is moving to an apartment here in town at the same time (day before or day after)! EEK!
I have barely started packing
but I have been going through everything and throwing away crap. I had a whole trashbag worth of stuff in my bathroom alone. No sense moving junk!
I think I'm just renting a 16-passenger van with the seats out. The biggest pieces of furniture I have are a twin bed and a barcalounger, no dining tables and no other chairs, so I think it'll be fine. My roommate's helping me move. I feel bad making him drive all that way, but my sister is pregnant and her husband has to work, and my parents are well into their 60s, so I really don't have a choice.
Zissou is starting to realize something is weird. She was "helping" me clean out the bathroom yesterday, and I packed up all her toys in a box that I can still open... she's looking at me like "What's going on!"
Any tips for packing? I basically only have one room that's all mine, and then stuff in the kitchen/bathroom. The bathroom is all being packed into a thing of plastic drawers. Zissou's stuff will all be in one box. And then the kitchen stuff.
Any ideas on good ways to pack books? I have a few hundred. Should I put them in a suitcase with rollers? I am moving out of a third-floor walkup into another third-floor walkup. Yeah, I know, phew! But according to the landlord it's the best apartment in the building, right above the model so that there's noone below me or above me.
When I leave, should I put the Zissou in the bathroom here, move everything out, and then put her in the bathroom there while I move in? Since the bathroom will be the easiest (just bring out and then plunk down the plastic shelves) it would be easiest to put her in there. I know it's better to do it differently if you don't have to do everything all at once, but I don't have a choice. I have to move on the 12th (lease there starts on the 12th, lease here up on the 13th, and I am working until the 11th-- plus I don't own a car)
I'm kinda freaking out....
I have barely started packing
I think I'm just renting a 16-passenger van with the seats out. The biggest pieces of furniture I have are a twin bed and a barcalounger, no dining tables and no other chairs, so I think it'll be fine. My roommate's helping me move. I feel bad making him drive all that way, but my sister is pregnant and her husband has to work, and my parents are well into their 60s, so I really don't have a choice.
Zissou is starting to realize something is weird. She was "helping" me clean out the bathroom yesterday, and I packed up all her toys in a box that I can still open... she's looking at me like "What's going on!"
Any tips for packing? I basically only have one room that's all mine, and then stuff in the kitchen/bathroom. The bathroom is all being packed into a thing of plastic drawers. Zissou's stuff will all be in one box. And then the kitchen stuff.
Any ideas on good ways to pack books? I have a few hundred. Should I put them in a suitcase with rollers? I am moving out of a third-floor walkup into another third-floor walkup. Yeah, I know, phew! But according to the landlord it's the best apartment in the building, right above the model so that there's noone below me or above me.
When I leave, should I put the Zissou in the bathroom here, move everything out, and then put her in the bathroom there while I move in? Since the bathroom will be the easiest (just bring out and then plunk down the plastic shelves) it would be easiest to put her in there. I know it's better to do it differently if you don't have to do everything all at once, but I don't have a choice. I have to move on the 12th (lease there starts on the 12th, lease here up on the 13th, and I am working until the 11th-- plus I don't own a car)
I'm kinda freaking out....