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I HATE packing/moving/cleaning

soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
edited May 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.
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  • Brain of J.LoBrain of J.Lo Posts: 3,259
    Hire someone.
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    moving sucks. it's exciting....but the process still sucks.
    i moved flats more times than i can even remember in london, but i was a student...rentd furnished flats....so it was easy enough to grab my suitcase of clothes and school supplies, hop in a taxi and move. i moved once as a teen, again easy enough.....and once as a single adult. that still wasn't bad b/c i was starting out and didn't have much. moving into our house from a huge apartment, filled with 5 years of married life.....ALL our hobbies.....electronics......books...CDs......furniture...clothes. sucked. big time. packing was horrible. i mean, i am organized and methodical but it was just sooooo much work! once in our home, we had one room as 'storage' for over a year before we decided what to do with a lot of the stuff. now we're in our home 12 years...it's a small home by todays standards 1200 SF....but also a full basement, attic, garage, garden shed.....i am organized, i purge goods regularly, we re only 2 people and yet.....we have sooooo MUCH STUFF. i love my home and barring unforseen life change can't imagine moving....but yea...i don't want to move anyway, b/c i don't want to move all this shit! :lol: oh, and we did hire movers for the apartment to home move.....would've been crazy not to, especially b/c of all the furniture...but even so, packing is such a nightmare process...


    so yea...i feel for you, truly. :) good luck! :mrgreen:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    decides2dream wrote:
    moving sucks. packing is such a nightmare process...

    so yea...i feel for you, truly. :) good luck! :mrgreen:


    this is all that needed to be said ;) :P :mrgreen:
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    norm wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    moving sucks. packing is such a nightmare process...

    so yea...i feel for you, truly. :) good luck! :mrgreen:


    this is all that needed to be said ;) :P :mrgreen:



    are you my editor now? ;)
    while you recently mentioned how you loved my verbosity...sure seems you're pushing towards brevity. :lol:


    that said......you're right. that's all that *need*ed to be said, but i *want*ed to share all the rest. :mrgreen:
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,647
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    Are you moving into one of them fancy-ass mansions?
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    Are you moving into one of them fancy-ass mansions?



    :mrgreen:
    he's got to pass the bar first for that!
    ;)
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    Are you moving into one of them fancy-ass mansions?

    behind those big gates with the rest of the white people? ;)
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    decides2dream wrote:
    norm wrote:
    decides2dream wrote:
    moving sucks. packing is such a nightmare process...

    so yea...i feel for you, truly. :) good luck! :mrgreen:


    this is all that needed to be said ;) :P :mrgreen:



    are you my editor now? ;)
    while you recently mentioned how you loved my verbosity...sure seems you're pushing towards brevity. :lol:


    that said......you're right. that's all that *need*ed to be said, but i *want*ed to share all the rest. :mrgreen:

    i'm just playin'....3 day weekend!!!!! :mrgreen::mrgreen:
  • decides2dreamdecides2dream Posts: 14,977
    norm wrote:
    i'm just playin'....3 day weekend!!!!! :mrgreen::mrgreen:



    sheesh, ALL my emoticons and my rather brief post....ad you can't see, i'm just playin too? :mrgreen:



    1 more hour until my 3-day weekend!
    :mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:


    and the only thing i'll be moving this weekend is my ass from the hammock to the adirondack, to the porch swing...to whatever great spot there is ouside in the yard....and sure, the always filled glass of red to my lips....... 8-)
    Stay with me...
    Let's just breathe...


    I am myself like you somehow


  • Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,869
    Moving is the WORST. "Can you help me move?" is one of the worst questions a friend can ask you. It's so much mroe frustrating when you're the one doing the moving. Good luck with the move.
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,647
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Moving is the WORST. "Can you help me move?" is one of the worst questions a friend can ask you. It's so much mroe frustrating when you're the one doing the moving. Good luck with the move.

    The worst is when people try to bait you with the promise of pizza afterwards.

    Even worse is when someone obviously hasn't finished packing when you show-up to help!
  • JOEJOEJOEJOEJOEJOE Posts: 10,647
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    Last time I moved, I took all my clothes to be laundered so that they get packaged for me!
  • Indifference71Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,869
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Moving is the WORST. "Can you help me move?" is one of the worst questions a friend can ask you. It's so much mroe frustrating when you're the one doing the moving. Good luck with the move.

    The worst is when people try to bait you with the promise of pizza afterwards.

    Even worse is when someone obviously hasn't finished packing when you show-up to help!

    Thats true, but that bait usually works. Whenever I have moved, I just promise my friends beer and pizza afterwards and that usually does the trick.
  • covered in blisscovered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    hope you've learned your lesson!

    If you had kept your stuff in order and cleaned your bathroom once a week, this wouldn't be an issue.
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    I'm in the same boat man. I have to be out of my place at the end of the month, and I haven't really done much of anything. I'm trying to clean and get things packed, but I'm such a procrastinator.
    "The dude abides. I don't know about you, but I take comfort in that. It's good knowin' he's out there. The Dude. Takin' her easy for all us sinners."
  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    I am allergic to any form of housework on weekends.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • CHANGEinWAVESCHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    I guess I'm in the minority... I like packing things (you find so much you forgot you had) and I LOVE moving.... new places new possibilities
    "I'm not present, I'm a drug that makes you dream"
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    I thought about moving to another apartment this spring. But like soulsinging I dreaded the moving.. so I signed another lease. fuck...

    ** olderman wishes, for a brief moment, that he was still hooked up with his psycho GF from 10 years ago because she was awesome at packing and cleaning **

    ~olderman quickly snaps to his senses and slaps himself for thinking such thoughts~
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • JaneNYJaneNY Posts: 4,438
    Mother loved moving - her saying (she had one for every occasion) was: 'a move is as good as a fire'. She loved getting rid of stuff and cleaning out.
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    Yes, moving requires a bit of work!!

    I'm in the process of preparing to move too. :)
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  • PearlJam24PearlJam24 Posts: 340
    I've moved 10 times in the last 10 years. I don't plan on moving again until my kid(s) are out of high school which is atleast 11+ years away! After that I plan on building and staying there until I die.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    JOEJOEJOE wrote:
    soulsinging wrote:
    I move out of this apartment on Monday and man do I not want to do any of this work. I don't want to scrub the bathroom down. I don't want to pack up my clothes and whatnot. Even though I don't have many belongings, the thought of trying to get it all in our van stresses me out to no end. And I know I should clean the bathroom, but I know they're going to try to charge me for shit anyway, so why do I bother? I'm positive they will end up re-cleaning it anyway. Damn this limbo... there's nothing worse than being close to a move. I want to have things ready to go, but I'm at that point where I feel like there's way too much to do, but I can't do any of it because I need that stuff this weekend so I have to save it for right before I go. Grrr.

    Are you moving into one of them fancy-ass mansions?

    I think I need to make partner first, hehe. I'm moving back in with my parents for summer while I study for the bar with my brother (he just finished law school too). Free rent baby! On the downside, I'll be moving again in about 4 months.
  • soulsingingsoulsinging Posts: 13,202
    covered in bliss wrote:
    hope you've learned your lesson!

    If you had kept your stuff in order and cleaned your bathroom once a week, this wouldn't be an issue.

    My stuff is in order, but it still has to go into several boxes. Tough to life a bookcase with the books still on it and all. And I'd still have to clean the bathroom and everything right before I left in order to not get charged.
  • PearlOfAGirlPearlOfAGirl Posts: 15,993
    I also hate packing/moving and cleaning every inch of the house/apartment when moving. When we first moved in the house I am for the time being, about 11 yrs ago, I had to clean both places. The apartment we moved out of, and the house we moved into. {these people in the new house DIDN'T do one thing} I was pretty exhausted after that. Yikes!! :roll:

    Wish you were here...
    ♥~RIP Dad
  • DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    I've been in the same place for 4 years and we've accumulated a ton of crap. We are moving to a much smaller place next month and this is going to be a good way to take stock of our possessions and shed what we don't need.

    But I hear you. I also hate the packing. And the cross-country trip in the U-Haul is going to suck.
    It is time to admit that we used to rock like hurricanes. It is time to run for the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
    - C. Klosterman
  • covered in blisscovered in bliss chi-caw-go Posts: 1,332
    soulsinging wrote:
    covered in bliss wrote:
    hope you've learned your lesson!

    If you had kept your stuff in order and cleaned your bathroom once a week, this wouldn't be an issue.

    My stuff is in order, but it still has to go into several boxes. Tough to life a bookcase with the books still on it and all. And I'd still have to clean the bathroom and everything right before I left in order to not get charged.

    I hope it's one of those things you dread and then when you're finished, you think "that wasn't so bad".
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