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Sorry I have not been active a lot here lately but we are currently in the middle of moving from out of the suburbs to the N GA mountains.
Man I hope I do not have to do this again, Do you have any idea how much reloading supplies weigh!!!! Moving companies charge by the pound and they consider my move to intrastate long distance.
 
Sorry I have not been active a lot here lately but we are currently in the middle of moving from out of the suburbs to the N GA mountains.
Man I hope I do not have to do this again, Do you have any idea how much reloading supplies weigh!!!! Moving companies charge by the pound and they consider my move to intrastate long distance.
Moving is a pain! When my daughter moved a couple years ago, they hired movers, but also selected items that they moved in advance to a storage unit. I would have heavier and more difficult items moved by movers, and fragile and more sensitive items to move by myself. I can't life heavy stuff because of my back, but I do a gradual thing. If I spent a day moving boxes, I would be crawling the next day. If I move a few boxes everyday, I am in much better shape. I know you can't always move that way, but it is what I have learned to do.
 
I was "volunteered" to help the in-laws move this weekend. Friday...no changed to Thursday...no Saturday after 10...no heavy stuff...bring your trailer and truck for the heavy stuff...don't forget this Saturday at 9...

First time we moved wife ask me how I was planning on doing it. "Dumpster and I've contact a group of men for the big stuff." She canceled the dumpster and move the small stuff herself. That's when I learned I married a pack-rat.

Good luck ssonb and enjoy your move. At least you're moving to where you can pee outside without the neighbors calling the cops!
 
We still have a number of items that the Moovers will not tote..Ya know chemicals, explosives, , loaded ammo, radioactive ordnance, gasoline, and binary biological weaponry, lawnmowers ect ect normal household items. LL since I am in the upper watershed of the Chattahoochee river and I pee in the stream does that make everyone downstream my "branch kin" just askin.
 
We still have a number of items that the Moovers will not tote..Ya know chemicals, explosives, , loaded ammo, radioactive ordnance, gasoline, and binary biological weaponry, lawnmowers ect ect normal household items.

lol, :p:D
 
I was "volunteered" to help the in-laws move this weekend. Friday...no changed to Thursday...no Saturday after 10...no heavy stuff...bring your trailer and truck for the heavy stuff...don't forget this Saturday at 9...

First time we moved wife ask me how I was planning on doing it. "Dumpster and I've contact a group of men for the big stuff." She canceled the dumpster and move the small stuff herself. That's when I learned I married a pack-rat.

Good luck ssonb and enjoy your move. At least you're moving to where you can pee outside without the neighbors calling the cops!
Isn't it interesting how people can figure things out when they think it isn't all going to work out for them?

The Lazy L, isn't it time to have your back go out, I mean, before Saturday? The helpless will always play that way, when they are really not helpless, just part of their game.
 
...The helpless will always play that way, when they are really not helpless, just part of their game.

When it comes to the in-laws the wife is always in the middle. They ask wife, wife says "yes he will do that" then figures out a way to tell me so I'll agree. When I say no, wife goes into poor me mode so I tell her to stop getting in the middle and tell them to ask me direct.

In this case the move involves the mother-in-law too. She's as sweet as can be I'm happy to help her. Just wish the other in-laws would make up their minds on date, time and what so I can plan according. I still have a lot of outside chores and projects that need to be completed before winter and I'll soon be running out of decent weather. Burning up a weekend from disorganization, lack of planning and large dose of self doubt ain't going to help me beat winter.
 
When it comes to the in-laws the wife is always in the middle. They ask wife, wife says "yes he will do that" then figures out a way to tell me so I'll agree. When I say no, wife goes into poor me mode so I tell her to stop getting in the middle and tell them to ask me direct.

In this case the move involves the mother-in-law too. She's as sweet as can be I'm happy to help her. Just wish the other in-laws would make up their minds on date, time and what so I can plan according. I still have a lot of outside chores and projects that need to be completed before winter and I'll soon be running out of decent weather. Burning up a weekend from disorganization, lack of planning and large dose of self doubt ain't going to help me beat winter.
I have always been too generous with others in helping them out. For me, it never seems that I can get help back.
 
I have always been too generous with others in helping them out. For me, it never seems that I can get help back.
I know what you mean.

We have a "Manager" that is like that. His employees are busy, scheduled, overloaded, on vacation, sick, whatever and the Manager desperately needs temporary help. So I and other employees re-juggle our workloads to compensate. This happens numerous times a year. BUT when I or any of the other employees approach this "Manager" requesting labor assistance, "Manager" will agree but the help never arrives. Now this "Manager" has branded me as "Non-cooperative" because I am now too busy to help him. :D
 
I know what you mean.

We have a "Manager" that is like that. His employees are busy, scheduled, overloaded, on vacation, sick, whatever and the Manager desperately needs temporary help. So I and other employees re-juggle our workloads to compensate. This happens numerous times a year. BUT when I or any of the other employees approach this "Manager" requesting labor assistance, "Manager" will agree but the help never arrives. Now this "Manager" has branded me as "Non-cooperative" because I am now too busy to help him. :D
When it comes to people being helpless, I have met and known way too many. I have too many experiences that now I get it quicker and I shut up and get away faster. The world is full of takers.
 
Find some needy people and give them her stuff. It'd have to be her idea though, by way of sneaky suggestion, of course.
You got an extra room for me if she finds out I set her up?

P.S. I don't eat much.

She has every paper the children brought home from grade school! I asked her why she doesn't give it to the the children. "They don't want it" she answered. "Then pitch it!" was mine. "I can't do that, they may change their minds and want it..."
 
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You got an extra room for me if she finds out I set her up?

P.S. I don't eat much.

She has every paper the children brought home from grade school! I asked her why she doesn't give it to the the children. "They don't want it" she answered. "Then pitch it!" was mind. "I can't do that, they may change their minds and want it..."
It is interesting. Sometimes it is the husband, sometimes it is the wife, sometimes it is both and rarely is it neither.

Someone told me that her parents were pack rats, maybe hoarders and their house was full of boxes. She told me her mother was always trying to give her stuff and she didn't want it. I suggested that when her mother tried to give her a box or something that she didn't want, that she take it. If it had any value, take it to a local thrift store. If it was something someone might want, something sentimental, see if anyone else in the family really wants it. If it was truly trash, put it out with her trash. I told her she could deal with it one box or object at a time, or they could wait until her parents died and deal with it all. I don't know what she did, but I believe there are many older people out there who have houses full of sentimental stuff that takes someone who can throw it all away, and sometimes too much throw away.
 
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You got an extra room for me if she finds out I set her up?

P.S. I don't eat much.

She has every paper the children brought home from grade school! I asked her why she doesn't give it to the the children. "They don't want it" she answered. "Then pitch it!" was mine. "I can't do that, they may change their minds and want it..."
Take pictures of it, make into calendars, get rid of orginals.
 
Take pictures of it....

She scrolls thought her camera now to find a picture that she can depart with (delete) to make room for another picture. And we all stand there poising and waiting ... waiting .... waiting until she does. Then she goes to Wall-Mart and prints out duplicates of every picture that someday (so I am told) will end up in a album.

You should see all of the recorded VCR tapes she has of .... everything. Some of the VCR tapes she's copied to DVD AND still keeps the VCR tape too!
 
When it comes to the in-laws the wife is always in the middle. They ask wife, wife says "yes he will do that" then figures out a way to tell me so I'll agree. When I say no, wife goes into poor me mode so I tell her to stop getting in the middle and tell them to ask me direct.

In this case the move involves the mother-in-law too. She's as sweet as can be I'm happy to help her. Just wish the other in-laws would make up their minds on date, time and what so I can plan according. I still have a lot of outside chores and projects that need to be completed before winter and I'll soon be running out of decent weather. Burning up a weekend from disorganization, lack of planning and large dose of self doubt ain't going to help me beat winter.

You still planning on hitting the road in your rv ?
 
I got rid of 23 cookbooks and still have 2 shelves of my favorites.
I used to have way too many cookbooks. I decided to clean out many things, including cookbooks. I went through them one at a time to see what recipes were in them that I might really use. I have two things that I really like to cook: soups and salads, but there are a few other things that I like to cook as well. When I found a recipe that I thought was worth saving, I added it to my recipe blog. After going through dozens of cookbooks, I had very few recipes that I kept and many cookbooks that I donated. I find that when I want to cook, and it has been this way for many years, I usually look online.

I still have many things to declutter. It really does feel good to haul stuff out and to clean up a space.
 
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