Well I knew it would be a tough move, but it really exceeded my worst expectations. Besides the psychological aspect, moving is really all about the stuff you own. And I had really seemed to accumulate quite a bit over the last several years coinciding with recent life changes. Life just happens and it seems to happen fast right about the time that you get married.
I moved in to my last apartment with my wife to be and two other roommates. I was fresh out of college and owned more sporting goods equipment than furniture. Shortly thereafter, my wife and I were married, our roommates moved out but my brother-in-law moved in. We bought some furniture as needed to fill the house because my still in college brother-in-law had about the same furniture owning status as I was. And, we acquired a massive amount of housewares from our wedding. So much so that we couldn’t even bring all of our wedding gifts home and they stayed in our Mother-in-law’s house for years to come. Eventually we would bring box by box to our house as we needed particular items.
We continued to add to the furniture and accumulate even more “stuff” as the first three years and then the big change, we had a baby girl. We suddenly had more stuff than we knew what to do with. A nursery was constructed and quickly filled with a crib, changing table and dresser along with all the other never ending necessities required for babies and young children. Plus, my wife’s brother moved out and we had one more room’s worth of furniture to fill.
Two years later, and with another young girl added to the family we had our three bedroom apartment filled to the brim. Thankfully we didn’t have a garage’s worth of stuff too but we still had accumulated quite a lot.
All in all we had over 6,000 lbs. worth of belongings total to be moved. I know because I completed an inventory using our inventory sheet and the experience I gained from working so closely with professional moving companies. And, all of that had to be moved down from our fourth floor apartment using a small 4×5 service elevator or the stairs. Then it had to go back up one or two flights of stairs at our new home which has three stories.
My move was not going to be easy. Actually, my move was one of the most challenging moves that I have ever seen in the over two dozen relocations that I have personally overseen. I wondered how long my move would take me and could I even estimate that? Or would it be worth it for me to pay someone to move me? I thought I’d get some estimates from some of my favorite moving companies to get an idea of what I’d pay, or how much I could save by doing it myself. Stay tuned and I’ll let you know what my moving quotes were in my next entry.
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