Moving Stinks

I love my house. I don't want to move. But if we ever have to move again, I don't want to have to do a darned thing. I don't want to pack, or load a truck, or make a zillion trips up and down the turnpike with a loaded pickup truck like last time. We were lucky that we were "close" (if you call a 90 minute drive close, which I guess it is) to our new home. We moved ourselves. Never again.

My BIL has a thing for moving. He seems to get restless after a few years in one house, so he switches jobs and moves. Lucky for him, he's made money on all the houses he's sold in the process. He's making noise about doing it again. And I don't know why. He has a great house. Maybe he'll stay because he has two kids now.

A friend of mine just moved from PA to TN. She said she used this site Self Storage Directory - Moving.bz to help her find movers. She's recently separated from her husand, and has 4 kids (under 8!). I can't imagine pulling off a move like that without some kind of help. This site even helped her find cheap boxes. Sure beats scouring the liquor store for sturdy boxes that won't fall apart.

My house is actually a modular home. It was so cool to watch them bring it in and crane it onto our foundation in two pieces. I joke that if we have to move, I'll just tape everything down, drop the roof, split the house and go... but it's not really possible. I will, however, insist on movers if nothing else. We're past the "pay our friends with pizza and beer" stage of life. We're on to the "pay these guys to get it done". I hope I won't need them, but it's nice to know this kind of website is out there.