I HATE moving.

Damn, I hate it.

That is all.

You aren't alone, as I sit in a house with no furniture. Hell, I had to tether the computer to my cell phone because the internet service transferred today. I've been packing for months, not to mention sleeping on an air mattress for the last few weeks.

We've already decided we're staying here until the kids are grown, building an all new retirement cottage, and then burning this house down with all its contents.

At least I have. Good luck, man.

But all that will be fixed tomorrow, right Toyman? Duke, I told the ex we would never move, we'd just burn the house and collect the insurance. (Man I hope the thing doesn't catch fire tonight!)

We're moving this Friday so we're having a yard sale tomorrow. I fully expect to just barely make enough to cover the gas to truck all the stuff, that doesn't sell, to the Goodwill store.

Last time I moved, which was recently, I gave the landlord a 30 day notice, he moved people in 2 weeks later and they scrapped the trans and engine I just rebuilt for my Grand Am, the 3100 I was going to put into my 88 Fiero, and made my stuff disappear. Not to mention, they destroyed my cars since they didn't have the titles to them to scrap those too.

We are moving at the end of the month. I am REALLY not looking forward to that!

AquaHusky, Christopher Titus said when he and his wife split he had a Hilborn injected BB Chevy in his garage and she GAVE it away. I think that should be just cause for homicide.

I hope to be moving soon.. money matters are scaring me though.

I'm with you. The biggest fights my wife and I have ever had have been while moving. I turn into a nasty, raging miserable SOB. I don't plan to move again until retirement.

Maroon92 wrote: We are moving at the end of the month. I am REALLY not looking forward to that!

So I guess that second interview went well...

Curmudgeon wrote: AquaHusky, Christopher Titus said when he and his wife split he had a Hilborn injected BB Chevy in his garage and she GAVE it away. I think that should be just cause for homicide.

Caught a 2005 episode of Rides earlier today , when Titus was having an Expedition customized for his then very pregnant wife, who actually had the baby during the build. She seemed like a car gal, but I know she knew how much of a car guy he is and I'm sure she did that just to twist him.

The first time I moved was out of my parents house. Everything I owned fit in the back of a pickup. Just one trip and I was done.

The second time was when I bought this house six months later. It took 6 pickup loads.

That was 25 years ago. Do you know how much junk can be collected in 25 years by six people. The Goodwill donation center ladies just groan when my cars pull in. They know my wife by her first name by now. I'm still waiting for the town to tell me I've used my lifetime quota for trash removal.

The worst part is I still haven't started on my shop or the attic.

I still may burn this place to the ground.

Never mind. I've put too much work into it in the last three months so I can sell it. It is tempting though.

I've moved 15 times in my life and I'm only 28. I hate hate hate it. It's a great way to debate homicide or suicide.

When we bought the house the best house warming present we got was money for a mover. All we had to do was pack. They carried it down from the apt, into the truck and into the house.

We are moving Thursday and it has turned us into the biggest doofuses. I got excited last week am and still excited because I figured out I have a rural collection center (dumpster) available 4 days a week. My wife just came into the living room all giddy because she remembered that a box of the perfect size for some of her kitchen stuff is waiting for her at work.

Sad and happy part-4 cars sold and 1 more to go. I figured moving 5 to the new house is enough.

Wally wrote: When we bought the house the best house warming present we got was money for a mover. All we had to do was pack. They carried it down from the apt, into the truck and into the house.

My last move was using movers, and the one before that was using movers to move AND pack (new job paid all moving expenses). It still sucked sweaty monkey balls. To top it off, on the last move when the truck pulled away it sideswiped The Wife's minivan, taking a half-dollar size hole out of a tire in the process. At 4:30 on the Wed. before Thanksgiving. Hers was the only car we had capable of hauling the 2 car seats at the time, and we needed to go collect the kids and have Thanksgiving with my inlaws 90 minutes away. I managed to get a replacement tire mounted up that evening but it was more stress than I needed.

pigeon wrote:

Maroon92 wrote: We are moving at the end of the month. I am REALLY not looking forward to that!

So I guess that second interview went well...

Not yet... Either way, our lease is up at the end of the month. We are either moving to Kennesaw, GA or Ohio...

again...not looking forward to it.

I have scrapped several thousand pounds of metal in the last month. Glad scrap is high!

Curmudgeon wrote: Damn, I hate it. That is all.

You should, me too, that is all.

I hate moving so much that I'm sure I lost tons of money by renting what I thought would be temporary digs more than once. Moved in 2008 after my apartment was broken into by thug-wannabes looking, I think, for a gun and/or cash....maybe drugs? Moved in 2010 when I quit my job because my newest boss was a B----H, and I finally got fed up living in a city stuck in 1966 (Memphis, Tn.). I will be moving in 6 months, I hope, out of this apartment and into my own house.

From the '80s thread - Brian Regan on Dr.Katz, with a hilarious bit about moving: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FlyeN5l6OQ&feature=related

Back in '96 I had first refusal on a duplex I was renting. I deferred to the other tenant... until he told me I'd have to have all my E36 M3 out by the end of the month... including all my equipment, tools and car E36 M3 from the garage, no excuses. I rethought it, bought it... and had him get his E36 M3 out by the end of the month.

I hate moving E36 M3.

I helped my son move for the last time, he may move agian but without me. 9 moves in 7 years, oy!

I really want to down size and get out of New York but don't look forward to the selection process.

Condolences JMan.

I am one of those that doesn't mind moving. It's the perfect opportunity to get rid of crap you don't need, find stuff you've been looking for, and re-organize things. This is coming from someone who's college career consisted of three different universities and a couple of community colleges, moving has become second nature. Plus I love to paint and moving always means painting.

I've moved over 20 times in my life, and I am only 23. I hate moving, and I hate not having a feeling of having a "home". Once I'm 30 and own an acreage, I'll get started on making it my permanent home