Rant/Rave: Moving

[JackofDiamonds]

I [expletive] hate moving. I have moved every year for the last 7 years. 7 [expletive] years! I've had horrible housemates, my landlords were refurbishing and ending the lease, and I've moved away from and back to the same city. I think I just found the perfect place, I am looking forward to moving in with my girlfriend on Friday, and then she tells me she wants to go to Standford law instead of Harvard. It looks like I am moving again next summer. I am this [expletive] close to moving to [expletive] Oklahoma and buying a $200k house. I am so done with [expletive] moving, so [expletive] done with it. Packing everything up, labeling the boxes, loading the van, driving around like a jackass because I am in this huge van with my life in the back on some little Boston side street, trying to parallel park a square bus on some [expletive] cobblestone horse track! [expletive]!

That being said, I love the first few nights in a new house.

[Cronos]

7 times moved in 7 years? That's just disgusting. I've moved into a big city for the first time in my life(first time seriously moving a long distance, too) and once is enough for me at least for the 4 or so years I know I'll be here in Chicago.

I drove a U-haul truck in this city for approximately half an hour and I had had enough. Nobody died, no accidents, but I feel I got really lucky. I feel your pain, Jack.

[docellis]

From 18 years old until I was 27 or so I moved at least 14 times. But I didn't really accumulate much and I never bothered to box or label anything. It was mostly clothes and books.

[thrill]

From 18 years old until I was 27 or so I moved at least 14 times. But I didn't really accumulate much and I never bothered to box or label anything. It was mostly clothes and books.

I'm 22 and I've moved 7 times since I was 18. I'm like you where I just learned to keep the belongings light. My entire worldly possessions fit into three big storage tubs.

Now I've started accumulating a lot more stuff in the last year.

[Popeye_Card]

Now I've started accumulating a lot more stuff in the last year.

You need to learn the fine art of drinking your paycheck.

[JackofDiamonds]

I have a lot of furniture. My Dad makes artisan wood furniture as a hobby (I am writing this on a gorgeous 10ft long ribbon-striped mahogany desk with dove tailed joints), and I've collected pieces over the years as gifts. I can fill a 17' u-haul easily...so the best part about moving is talking friends into coming over to help carry a heavy bird's eye maple kitchen table.

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[docellis]

I've started accumulating more stuff too. But it is weird because any time I am thinking about buying something large, I swear to god, my initial, instinctual thought is "can I carry this? no? then I don't need it."