Moving could be more funner…

rockcity

rockcity

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It’s a bit bitter sweet; moving from the house we’e spent the last 16 years in and raised our girls in. But sweet because it’s time to move on to a new chapter and build our dream house on some acerage right close to town.

But, moving just flat out sucks already and then this happens… 🙄

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Now my boxes are all jacked up and previously organized tools now scatered everywhere, and in and around inside all the dam drawers and boxes.

I guess I should have strapped everything down. I was trying to load long way to get it in the trailer and it didn’t work out too well….
 
My FIL says you need to move every 10 years to weed out the junk.He's been in the same place for almost 50 years.
 
I assume no injuries, hate that for you! Not looking forward to moving my box when its time.
 
I am permanently spoiled and have come to the conclusion I can never move again. My employer paid for packing service along with moving the last time I moved. They had our entire house packed up in 5hrs, that would have been 5months of work for my wife and I LOL!!!

Yes moving sucks.
 
gslander said:
I am permanently spoiled and have come to the conclusion I can never move again. My employer paid for packing service along with moving the last time I moved. They had our entire house packed up in 5hrs, that would have been 5months of work for my wife and I LOL!!!

Yes moving sucks.
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Yea moving sucks but it does give us an opportunity to purge everything we no longer need.

I am fortunate that I had the ability to kind of take my time moving. Since I teach at ECU, I had the summer off and spent most of July packing up and moving the necessary items so we could put the house on the market. Then for the last 6 weeks while under contract I’ve been slowly getting things moved from the garage to either the dump, habitat, or our land where I built a shed and have another shed to store stuff we want to keep. The tool box was one of the last items and it didn’t go as planned…. 🙄
 
rockcity said:
It’s even more of a PITA flipping a loaded tool box full of scattered tools back on to its wheels. 🙄
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I feel your pain. I did the same thing unloading my toolbox when i moved about 6 years ago except it fell over on the flatbed we were using to move. Unit was all tweaked and tools were everywhere. Had to pull all the drawers to find the stuff that fell down behind. Re-organizing was a pain.
 
We thought about selling our house and moving closer to town a bit (not out of the woods, just closer to town) but the thought of moving again was painful. Unless we could find our absolute dream house or have the opportunity to build our dream house, we're staying put.
 
I'd rather die in my house than pack it up again.
 
Tool boxes are plum dangerous. Helped move and load several. My Pit Wagon box takes a minimum of four grown as men if a ramp is involved. Zero fork lifts. Seen too many corners caved in or buckled puting the load on two points. Glad you wasn't hurt. Yanked backs and crushed fingers is all I've witnessed. That could have been bad if those girls was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
 
Everything goes with the house if I sell it. Down to the toothpaste and ice cube trays. I’ll start completely over. If that day ever comes I hope I can afford movers. I never want to move the amount of crap I did for last move. Zero help too. I came up with all sorts of crazy methods for the heavy stuff. Got it done, but lawd it sucked. Good luck!
 
Wes said:
Everything goes with the house if I sell it.
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Wife and I had the exact opposite discussion last night. I wouldn't mind building our same house again in a different location at a higher elevation (aka 3000ft+), but I gotta take almost all my junk with me. :D
 
RatLabGuy said:
I'd rather die in my house than pack it up again.
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Same. Last time I moved, it was in 18" of snow. And we had to move everything in a single day.
 
Futbalfantic said:
I’ve decided if I move my tool box I’m renting a drop trailer. For this very reason.
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The easy way is to empty all the tools into bags.
Use this as a good time to deep clean your tools as well.
Then just lift the empty boxes.
BTDT got the tshirt
 
Ron said:
The easy way is to empty all the tools into bags.
Use this as a good time to deep clean your tools as well.
Then just lift the empty boxes.
BTDT got the tshirt
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Good info for when I move all the junk out of my shop in Hartsville. I was thinking pull full drawers roll cabinets on trailer the reinstall drawers.
 
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