I forgot how much work it is packing up an entire house. And, it wasn’t that long ago we did this. The last time was about six and one-half years ago when we moved from S. Tampa to Valrico. It was pain in the ass then — and we were only going about 30 miles. This time, we moved over 700 miles — to Crawford, TN. We fit almost an entire three-bedroom house plus a garage and a huge shed into a 26-foot U-Haul and an 8x12 trailer.
That didn’t include the living room. The chairs were old, so we left them for the scrap guys. Gave the sofa away to someone who needed it. Gave a bunch of other stuff away to the neighbors. It took us three days to load the U-Haul and get the house ready for renters. But we did get lucky on that front — found a renter a couple days before we left. Seems like a very nice family with a 12-year-old boy (con't).
But the work isn’t finished yet — tomorrow, we have to unload everything and get it in the barn. It should hopefully fit — the barn is 18x20, which is bigger than the U-Haul. Gonna take some arranging of stuff because we will need access to certain boxes — like my office boxes and stuff.
The trip up was surprisingly uneventful. You don’t expect that when driving a rental truck. And the truck, though fully loaded, managed to do 65 to 75 mph all the way up here. That as quite surprising. Don drove the pig and I drove our truck. Rambo was excited to be on the way — he knew something was up when all the stuff started disappearing from the house. And when he saw his blanket go in the back of the truck, that was all she wrote. He loves to ride and he knows that if he goes in the truck, we are going to TN, and he loves it in TN. He’s not as itchy (environmental allergies), plus he gets to go off leash if no one is around. As for the moving sucks, yah, it does, but so worth it.
