slo’s MONDAY 8/5 poll - Moving 📦

[slo]

I think it’s safe to say that almost all of us have moved to somewhere in our lifetime. I do know 3 people that have never moved - they’ve never left their childhood home. Moving is a lot of work, and it’s exhausting. My DH and I just helped our DD20 move to her first apartment this past weekend. Not only did she have her stuff from our house, but also a storage unit full of her BF’s stuff, which included big furniture - couch, movie chairs set, entertainment center and more. All this made me start to wonder when was the last time you moved yourself, a family member or a friend. So let’s move onto the topic……

When was the last time you participated in a move?
Was it for yourself, a family member or friend?
(multiple choice)



For Me…..As I mentioned above, it was this past weekend. Not only did we help move our DD20 into her apartment, we did a lot of shopping too, to get her set up with food and misc items. The weekend was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. Her and I work so well together, that we can make just about anything fun. Before this we moved her in and out of her dorm in 2022 & 2023 (which was a lot of work, but not nearly the same thing as this past weekend). Then before that we moved us from house to house in 2004. Once we retire we’d like to downsize to something smaller, but that’s not going to be for about 10 years.

 

[Rogue1677x]

The last person I helped moved was my father and stepmother, that was in 2019. They weren't thrilled to have to move, but after suffering a head injury and my stepmother being disabled, they needed to be closer to the adult children.

I have moved 31 time in 47 years, which is more than my military brat husband.

 

[amcnj]

I personally only had one what I think of as a big move, where the contents of a whole house was involved. I had a few others, but they didn’t involve a lot of possessions as I/we either didn’t own much yet, or they were for temporary durations so only a minimum amount of stuff had to be relocated.

I helped two friends move a while back now, but neither of them involved a lot of items either. It was more to help with the heavy stuff.

I did help my children relocate. Again they didn’t own a real lot as they were going out on their own for the first time. One did require me to drive coast to coast though, so that was the last more involved move I guess, and was about eight years ago now.

I am not looking forward to any future moves though. Somehow over the years I have gotten older and am not as strong and energetic as I once was. Imagine that.

 

[WDWEPCOT]

6 1/2 years ago - way too much stuff - 40 years worth unbelievable how much stuff you have ! my next move I’m hitting movers let them do the heavy work !! I’m too old for it !!! I’ve gotten rid of so many things and still have too much !!!

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

We helped move my step-daughter over the weekend. It is almost "back to school" time. It was not really a big move, but a lot of work nonetheless. It was from her old apartment to her new one. The new apartment is in the same complex, just a different building.

As far as some kind of "major" move... it was moving into this house, which was like 7+ years ago.

 

[Meriweather]

About 8 years ago we helped our DD move into her first home.
It is a lot of work. She was living with us before that, so all her things from here and all her furniture and boxes from storage. We had to go buy a lot of other things too since she has a 3 bedroom house with a den.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Really, never. When Marie and I got married 53 years ago, we both were still living at our respective parent's homes (BF/FF co'-living was not in vogue yet back then). We had purchased the house we're still living in shortly before we got married, though didn't live there. We worked on the house, painting, getting it ready for us to move in, getting furniture delivered there, etc. Neither of us took much of anything with us. Clothes, little other. Needless to say, we have overload at this point, 53 years later.

Helped Vince if I recall, move to his first college dorm about 30 years ago.

 

[tvguy]

For me, my wife and I last moved 41 years ago. Lived in 2 houses with my parents as a kid, and two with my wife, so I don't move often. My wife is an Air Force Brat so moved more times before the age of 9 that most people do in a life time. Her record was 4 moves in 12 months, 2 countries, 2 states.
Currently helping our daughter move. Well, really, liquidate everything she has. She will be moving to Germany next month with just a suitcase full of belongings. House sale is pending, so need to move out items left to stage the house. Car gets sold next. Lots of trips to Goodwill.

 

[fla4fun]

1992

 

[design_mom]

Last fall, I moved my 23 year old son into his first grown-up apartment. He's decided to renew his lease so I won't have to do move him again this fall.

In 2 weeks, I move my 20 year old daughter into her college apartment, but it's partially furnished, so at least we don't have to move much big stuff.

We've lived in this house for 21 years and I don't have any immediate plans to move. i would consider downsizing in a few years, but I'd prefer not to until both kids are firmly rooted into their adult lives. (My college roommate's family downsized while she was away at college and I know that was tough for her. She was still welcome on school breaks and stuff, but she always felt like a houseguest. It was never her home. If I can help it, I don't want that for my kids until they definitely have someplace ELSE that they consider home.)

 

[Wood Nymph]

Our kids are old enough to use moving companies instead of friends and family now. The most recent family move was our daughter and her family moving back to our town four years ago. We didn't have to help them move, thank goodness. We did help them move kitchen cabinets from someone in the neighborhood who was remodeling their kitchen three years ago. But I'm not counting that one.

 

[Micca]

Moved around the country for quite a few years, our most recent move was to our present location in 2012. Certainly not looking forward to moving again any time soon.

 

[lovesmurfs]

In mid-July, we moved for the first time in over 26 years -- from Chicagoland to Harmony, FL (near St. Cloud).

We didn't realize all of the "oh, just bring it to the basement" things we'd done over the years. We wound up with at least 10 carloads of donations, umpteen garbage loads, loads of metal stuff to our curb (for the metal monger trucks that go by regularly!), and a 15-yard dumpster (completely full). I don't think we'll move again...We're in a 55+ community and a single-level house with lots of space.

 

[CGB]

The last big move was into this house (from base housing) 20 years ago. Before that, we had seven moves thanks to our military life. I'm not counting our son's college move, because that didn't involve furniture. We used to keep our possessions pretty light when we were moving so often, but now.... let's say a yard sale wouldn't hurt us.

 

[DisneyHardin]

I helped my sister move about 5 years ago. I had just gotten out of the hospital, so I wasn't a ton of help, but I did help pack boxes.

 

[disneychrista]

In May this year. My younger moved out and 3 hours away. It poured the entire three hour drive.

 

[CynBeth]

I moved from the house I grew up in to the house I have lived in since my DH and I have been married over 20 years ago and a few years after that moved my DM into an apartment.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

The last time we moved was in 2017. Moving is one of my least favorite things out there. It's usually a good thing when it's over, but the last one was so stressful. Doing last minute home upgrades and dealing with showings when you own a dog is hard enough, but our closings didn't align. We had to move all of our stuff into storage for a couple of weeks and lived in an extended stay suite until we closed on our new home. The movers had to come back out to move us out of storage and into the new place. Any longer and we would have had to do a short term rental on a house or apartment.

Next week, I will be moving DD17 (she'll be 18 at the end of next week) into her first college dorm. I'm nervous for a multitude of reasons, including vehicles and who will be going with her. There's a chance my vehicle won't be ready. If that happens, I'll have to stay home to take DD15 to and from school and DH will have to do the moving. When he moved into college, he just had a simple bag of stuff. DD has our entire game room filled with bags and boxes of things for her quad. I'm really anxious about all of it.

 

[georgina]

We moved about 3 years ago to be closer to our grandson. Before that we had been in the same house for 35 years, and it was the house DH had grown up in, though he had spent some time after college living in apartments. We bought it from his parents when we got married, as they were retired and relocating to Florida. Lots of stuff in that house to get rid of when we moved!

 

[_19disnA]

I read the question to be about moving yourself vs hiring a moving company. When we relocated on business over the years, the company paid the cost of the movers. If you are moving a short distance, perhaps it makes sense to move some of the smaller items yourself. However, large/heavy objects tend to take up a lot of space (requires a large truck/vehicle) and you can also injure yourself trying to lift something that is heavier than you can manage.

None of our friends/relatives have ever asked us to assist them when moving.