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My sister was moving house and for some strange reason decided that Today was a good day to move!
So we all pitched in to move her to her new house, and boy did she have a lot of crap.
Still, all done, and I am back to work tomorrow.
It never fails to amaze me how much rubbish people amass, (and I am guilty if this as well), over the course of a few years.
Most of it could be thrown away and would not be missed.
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I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
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Every few years it's good to go through your own sh*t as if you were going to move.
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I told my wife we won't be moving again until the basement and the garage are completely empty as well as at least two bedrooms upstairs. The stuff has to be gone - I'm not moving it. When we get that stuff gone we can talk about moving, until then, talk to the hand.
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You obviously have an impressive pair strapped on. How come you can't handle a silly, little web link issue? 
Soren Madsen
"When you don't know what you're doing it's best to do it quickly" - Jase #DuckDynasty
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My wife cannot fire me as she is my employee.
That is part of having the impressive pair.
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Dalek Dave wrote: Most of it could be thrown away and would not be missed.
Isn't that the truth!
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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My Saturday job is at a local self-storage facility and business is very good!
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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I actually had a box of rocks in my attic. It was my fil's fault. He likes to polish rocks - so when we lived in Az, he asked me to collect some. So I did, and the box of rocks was born. Eventually, we moved and the box came with us to end up in the garage. And it moved again to the storage room of the next house. And it moved yet again to the attic of the house we purchased. And, lo, it remained there for 5 years....
And it was time to move again, and down came the box of rocks. All this time, I have been asking fil to get his box of rocks. This time, last chance I told him.
That box had to have been moved at least 4 times.
Charlie Gilley
You're going to tell me what I want to know, or I'm going to beat you to death in your own house.
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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We are moving this week: they say the three most stressful things are divorce, death and moving. Having experienced all of them more than once, moving is definitely the worst.
(Notice how I did not qualify the above, leaving an opportunity for all of you so-called comedians to take a cheap shot/take the mickey).
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Finding somewhere to live can be stressful but we've moved 4 times in the last 4 years with three small kids and it's fine. Stick everything in boxes, pay men to do hard work, unpack.
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Ah, that's the easy part! Winding your way through the labyrinth that is escrow and closing, etc., that is a nightmare brought to life. It makes me yearn for the UK exchange and completion rigmarole which was a cake-walk compared to this bollocks.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
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Before I even started school my parents moved 7 times; they have remained in the same house now since 1971.
From leaving home to marrying, I had had five places in 15 years; nice and easy.
When Mrs Wife and I met in 2000, she had a flat in Budapest and I had flats in the UK and Hungary. I sold everything and bought a large apartment in Budapest; we kept Mrs Wife's small flat and continue to rent it out.
Then we moved to the UK and after two years bought and furnished another home in Balatonfured for our holiday home. 2011 we moved back to Hungary and last year we returned to the UK. We now have the four places and somehow manage them all.
I strongly advocate not bothering to pack up house and home; just expand to an extra place when you run out of room. 
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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I still havce copies of every print magazine I've been published in / edited etc.
Three big boxes of heavy paper.
Been moving with us for ever, and each move they come out, go in a cupboard until we move again.
But I CAN'T bring myself to chuck them.
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Sometimes moving is the only way to motivate us to dispose of crap we should never have saved.
Will Rogers never met me.
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I hate moving. We're trying to cut down, maybe only once every 5 years from now on. 
I am sure that when we moved back to Hungary there were some boxes that were never opened and just re-shipped when we returned to the UK. In the Fured house there is a spare bedroom that has, at last count, a sh*t load of unsorted detritus. We don't need it, don't want it and have no need for it. But it gets kept...
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
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