Moving: What to expect (Tips on moving home)

Member Name: xcorlett

Product:	Tips on moving home
Date:	04/03/09 (69 review reads)
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When you have to move you have to move. But oh my, can it be a traumatic experience! Here are some things that you might expect:

1) The unexplained law of expanding stuff
All those years of living in a capitalist world has meant that you have rather a lot of possessions. But who would have known it until you got those moving boxes out and started packing it away? All those magazines! Old newspapers! 15 different brands of shampoo stashed away! 8 different cleaning products for the same purpose! Drawers full of items which appear to have no purpose! When packed up, these things magically expand to fill a much larger area than they ever could before. Physics has no known explanation for this phenomena.

2) The law of the broken item
No matter how carefully you move and how much time you spend doing it or how many hundreds of helpful friends are there to aid you move, something of relative importance will get broken. That ceramic jar containing your great-grandmothers ashes. That flower pot containing the orchid that your boyfriend just gave you for valentines day. That glass statue of Tony Blair. And what will be even worse is that when it gets broken, someone will ask "Where is the superglue?". Packed away!! But in which box? And at that present moment, the superglue decides intelligently to pop out of existence so as to never be found again. The broken item sits in a box, waiting for an indeterminate period of time.

3) "How did we get that in here in the first place?"
Yes indeed, how did we get that in here in the first place? It's so big! It's so heavy! It doesn't fit through the door! By a stroke of universal luck, it is usually your favorite piece of furniture.

4) The hole in the wall
This doesn't happen to everyone, but there is another little known law of the universe. Walls sit there waiting to get holes in them when you have the least amount of time to repair it. And especially if you have a deposit down on a rental house, your wall is practically humming with excitement over the prospect of the impending hole.

5) New neighbors
When you arrive and start unpacking, neighbors will likely come over and introduce themselves. It is usually at this point that you would least want to meet new people, especially those that you will have to live next to and have staring in your window for a substantial period of time. You are tired and your hair looks like a space shuttle launch. The neighbors will tell you things you want to hear ("it's pretty safe") and things you don't ("we like to keep our lawns mowed weekly 'round here" and "watch out for the guy at number 32").

6) You will likely promise to yourself: "I will never move again!". Yet you will, and the cycle will repeat, only with more stuff, more broken things, more nosey neighbors and more holes in the wall!

Summary: Good luck!