PfWo Project: Moving Day!

I'll let you in on a secret. I hate moving. I really do. As nice as it might be to some to pack up their life and go through things as they're putting them away nicely, I don't. Trying to pack plates and cups and all that flatware...utterly stressful!

I'm all for tips and tricks and hacks to make moving and packing easier. While I know I have plenty of friends who would probably gladly help me move with their trucks, I'd rather just fork out $80 to rent a UHAUL and put all my stuff and move in one fell swoop.

The day we closed was a Thursday evening, Max and I grabbed our dog, stopped by Jimmy John's, my go to for first meals in new places, and went to the new house and had dinner.

Did I mention it was in the dark because I forgot to schedule the power turn on for that day. Whoops.

Friday, we did a mini move of some items. And we began the painting process.

But Saturday, that was the big move. Happy Halloween to us.

These pictures were taken a couple days before. Max helped with the packing (Thanks to his UPS skills). I was so caught up in directing the move, that pictures were scarcely taken.

The first of the packing began October 25th, 2015.

The living full of boxes for sorting.

 

The bed which was a sorting spot.

 

THIS IS BY FAR MY FAVORITE PACKING HACK! Saves so much time. Just use trash bags to bundle your clothes. Then it's easy to just get them rehung at the next place!

 

Ruger was very concerned that we were going to leave him. Actually, he had no idea. He'd never gone through a move before. After all, he was only about 6 months old. He just had fun hopping in and out and darting around the boxes. That's a collie for you.

 

Amidst the chaos, this was the ONE picture I managed to get on moving day. Max just backed the truck into the front yard of my old place so we could load all right from the door into the truck, which he oh so strategically packed. He was amazing.

 

 

Aside from Max, we had our friend Lance help, and my friend Cody. Great team of people. It didn't take us that long to move, ok, well maybe 3 hours. But we made it in one trip! Oh, the only thing that didn't fit in the Uhaul was my couch, which Lance was able to fit in his truck. And some breakables we could have fit in the Uhaul, but didn't want to because they were breakables.

 

Overall, great easy morning. The hardest part was the unpacking...which to this day, isn't done. We had some other obligation that day where we were gone most of it. And by the time we got home around 9, we had trick or treaters. We ran out of candy...who knew there were that many kids in the new neighborhood?! Yeesh! we'll plan better for next year :)

 

So, guess that's it for now. Until next time...