Comments on: Things You Discover When Packing Up Your House To Move…

By: Olga Rubio

Olga Rubio — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 18:45:31 +0000

:wallbash: i hate moving, my sympathies are with u!!!

By: Marilyn

Marilyn — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:15:39 +0000

We moved last year and aside from special toys and books that I kept and jokingly called my “Grandma Stash” (little did I know my son and his wife would get pregnant on their honeymoon six months later and present me with the most precious granddaughter two months ago), the one thing I could not make myself throw away was a McDonald’s McPumpkin filled with crayons.

Rocki’s gonna be SOOOOOOO sad when you’re gone. Have a safe move and remember to relax. Try spending the first night in a motel instead of the house. I just read that it makes the move less stressful.

By: Elisa Varey

Elisa Varey — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 03:41:10 +0000

Good luck Leslie in moving and sending off your college bound child. I still have stuff at my parents house, they will be moving to florida whenever they sell their house, i figured thats when i will pack everything up. My mom told me never to become a pack rat. I think its too late, i have outgrown my apartment. lol. Have a safe drive to Maryland.
Elisa

By: Jeanette Jackson

Jeanette Jackson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 01:14:34 +0000

You’ve given me a sneek preview of what will happen if we ever move…can you say Be Afraid..Be Very Afraid?

By: jeanne

jeanne — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:36:33 +0000

Awwwww. My eldest daughter just graduated from college - now trying to find a job. My youngest is in her second year staying at home and leaves me emptied nested next year boohoo.

By: Cryna

Cryna — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 23:26:00 +0000

Leslie……..I was laughing at some of the points you made on your move. Just know that you are not alone. When I moved the last time I was truly amazed at all the stuff I had accumulated in the 2 years we had been in the house, and that did not include the boxes we had not unpacked because we knew that this was just a stop over move…………..:P

By: Patricia

Patricia — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:47:57 +0000

Leslie, You always make me laugh, & touch me. My 40 yo son is moving to Dublin, Ireland on a 2-yr. contract, departing Sun., because his company’s business is moving its headquarters there, & I am already getting teary-eyed, even though he’s had his own apartment/house for years. Rest assured, unless your freshman is very different from all my friends’ kids (& my son), she’ll be back & forth to/from your house MANY times. Seriously, I hope she loves college, & you will be so busy actually getting to spend time with your hubby, you’ll not be TOO sad about it.

HUGS to you during this upsetting time. Just know that your sense of humor will get you through it.

Patricia A.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:17:48 +0000

Wow! I thought it was jsut me with all the unpacked boxes. After 6 years, I’ll have to make my husban d read this post where he’ll stop bitchin’.

Also, after 40+ years in the same house, my parents just moved 1400 miles away. They took so much junk. I am so glad I will NOT be there when they finally can move into their house.

Also, Leslie–it is just as hard on the kids to move away or have you move away. I am 32 and never lived over 7miles from my parents. This has been a very rough 3 months. I shed tears almost daily. :cry: Rest assured your dayghter will miss you.

Good Luck.:love2:

By: Estella Kissell

Estella Kissell — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:17:25 +0000

May you arrive at your new home safely.
I movd after 30 years in the same house. Can you imagine the s**t I found tucked away in various hidey holes?

By: Donna M

Donna M — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 19:57:36 +0000

Leslie, MOVE is a 4 letter word–I think that says it all!! I hate moving & I won’t tell you how long the boxes that are in my spare room have been sitting there with who knows what in them!! I really need this stuff, really! Why is it when you move & you know you packed those cookbook (or whatever) they somehow did not arrive at your new house!! Those mysterious “they’s” must have taken them!
Good luck with your move. Enjoy your daughter’s growing up & becoming all you hoped she would be. I never had that “oh they are leaving” home syndrome. Must be some gene I am missing!