Oh my aching back
It’s done. It’s all done and I don’t want to have to do it again for another 2 years.. At least !
Moving that is. Oh my gawd, what a pain in the back. And, I can’t even really complain as we hired movers this time.
The mayhem started weeks ago as I started to dump tons and tons of crap that I have accumulated over the past 10 years that I lived on De Bullion. I’m a nerd and nerds love to collect useless electronics. Remember the Zip disk made by Iomega? The one that suffered from the click of death Ya, I still have one and it still clicks whenever I put a Zip disk in it.. Oh, and I have never purchased another Iomega product since then.. Ya, like it wasn’t defective..
It was a nerd museum in that old apartment.. I had VGA 600×800 screens! Yes, plural. There was even a 386 that booted Linux (and not much else).. Anyhow, thankfully Montreal has éco-Centre where you can dump electronics, and gobs of other stuff you don’t want and Renaissance where you can rid of clothes and sporting goods you no longer want..
But even with that, it was still a good 5 HUGE construction garbage bags..
$2000 later (yes, that’s right) for the movers, 60 boxes that had to be packed and unpacked and then flattened and then shipped off to be reused elsewhere and one aching back and very sore legs (not good for a cyclist) and we are all settled.
Now I remember why I only move every 10 years.
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Um, I bought my zip disk in Summer 1999 (was living on de Bullion, too! 4107! Just north of Duluth!). Got the click of death Fall 99. Had two babies, got married, moved - kept Click of Death Zip Drive. I threw it out December 2006.
Geek and pack rat, such an evil combo.
$2000!? Wow, that’s a lot of coin. It cost me that much when I moved to Halifax a couple of years ago (and another ~$2000 to move back). But $2000 for a local move sounds way overpriced.
We moved two people into one apartment. It was 8hrs total. It’s also July 1. We called 3 months in advance to 8 different places. There were only 3 companies that still weren’t booked solid. You might be able to do better, but your furniture lies in the balance.