Packing fucking sucks

ReasonBeing

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Excuse me while I yell into the void. I warn you now, there is nothing to gained from reading this. You will not learn anything, you will not be enlightened. If anything, you may feel worse than you feel at this moment. Proceed at your own discretion.

I have lived and I have learned. One thing that I have learned over the course of my life, is that packing a house fucking sucks. A little over two years ago, my wife and I thought it would be a great idea to shake life up a little, we quit our current jobs and decided to take ourselves, two girls, and two cats across the country while working various contracts nationwide. We loaded the wagon and took off for greener pastures.

We would get to show our daughters new places, experience new sights and food. My daughters and wife were excited about the possibility of staying near family (who happen to be scattered across the US). And importantly, it would help us get into a better financial position.

All of this has happened; I should have no reason to complain, but Jesus Christ it is the biggest fucking pain in the God damn ass to have to drag all your shit for your daughter 1, daughter 2, wife, yourself, and two cats around the country. We also have to do this every 3-6 months. We have lived in 5 different states and 6 different houses over the past 26 months. Lots of packing, and it sucks.

We packed relatively light at first, but like everyone else, we accumulate shit. It became a problem real quick. If my mom sends one more fucking build-a-bear or god damn playhouse that is the size of full grown cow, to either of my daughter's, I'm going to throw it in a god damn pit of fire.

There is a light at the end of the tunnel. The situation has changed, and my wife got an offer we couldn't refuse. We would rent out our home and stay on the West Coast. That means in about a week and a half, I won't have to pack for at least a few years. That day cannot come soon enough

I am now back at our original house, packing. I find myself sitting on this couch, stoned, rambling on gaf, surrounded by a mountain of shit that I don't want to pack anymore. I have to pack up the entire house and drag it over 2'500 miles across the country. One thing is clear, everyone has too much shit. It sucks. Packing fucking sucks.
 
Assuming someone has space to store them when done in their garage or basement, anyone moving should spend $10 each and buy around 25 of these. Pack em in and lets the moving guys haul them into the truck.

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The average US household has around 300.000 items. You can easily cut that down to 20.000 items and you'd still have more than enough stuff, but packing will be a lot easier. Everything you didn't use for a year either sell it, donate it or throw it away and life'll be getting so much easier.
 
As a hardcore minimalist, I'll never have this issue.

In fact I go through my stuff regularly and get rid of anything useless. Clothes not worn for a year for example and other junk. It feels so good having so little stuff!
 
It really does, the stress and disruption is immense.

When you live somewhere for a while your stuff in its place also grounds you, you build familiar detailed routines that give you time to work and domestic and so on, even after moving and unpacking you then have to get back to that, ie setup.and define your version of the new normal.
 
The average US household has around 300.000 items. You can easily cut that down to 20.000 items and you'd still have more than enough stuff, but packing will be a lot easier. Everything you didn't use for a year either sell it, donate it or throw it away and life'll be getting so much easier.
My wife has double that FFS, 300k?
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I once got detained and heavily questioned at the airport for being abroad a long time and returning with three sets of clothes
 
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I feel you. Packing and moving sucks. I am currently packing up my house, finalizing the sale of the house, leaving a job, starting a new one, all while taking care of a toddler and a pregnant wife.
 
When we moved house we had to pack and relocate to a much bigger house with 2 toddlers and it was an absolute nitemare, I swore never to do it again, the sheer amount of shite you accumulate over the years especially the amount of toys, it was fucking endless unpacking and looking for shit, thankfully we skipped ahead a few moves and bought our forever home so we never need to move again, don't know how people continually do it tbh
 
I straight up Marie Kondo-ed my house a few years ago due to a cross country move and not wanting to pack a bunch of shit. It's pretty nice not having shit to clean so I leave it that way.
 
I enjoy my lockers cause last time I moved I just locked them and movers took them to the moving truck so no little packing to do. Clothes I threw them in large garbage bags. Only remaining items were mostly kitchen related, and boxed them. It will be 5 years I stayed at the same place, longest since I moved out at 15...
 
The average US household has around 300.000 items. You can easily cut that down to 20.000 items and you'd still have more than enough stuff, but packing will be a lot easier. Everything you didn't use for a year either sell it, donate it or throw it away and life'll be getting so much easier.
I don't think I even have 10,000 items in my place (I doubt I even have 1,000) unless you count each individual component of a single appliance/furniture.
 
My boss recently moved his 2 bedroom apartment to another 2 bedroom apartment in the same complex, he didn't hire movers so he can just move it himself as it's in the same complex. He has a wife and 2 kids. He took 2 days off initially to do it. Hr ended up extending it to almost a week as he didn't anticipate the task and how much stuff his wife hoarded.

Moving sux, I hate it everyone I need to do it. And as a renter I need to do it heaps.
 
When we bought our house we used the full 30 days left in our apartment rental of to move in and slowly moved those 30 days since we had to commute in to work. The first weekend was all the office equipment and bedroom stuff using a uhaul. After that we would commute in and after work take a crap with us lol.

Now that we have an additional 2 kids worth of stuff I think we would tell the next people who buy our house to keep everything and we just take our clothes, personal items (wedding pictures, stuff like that) and electronics
 
Packing sucks, but unpacking is so much worse for me. I've lived in my house for 2.5 years now and I still have some boxes in a closet I haven't fully unpacked…

Not to mention I haven't fully unpacked my suitcase from a trip I took like 3 weeks ago.

I might just be a piece of shit, though.
 
I need new glasses. I am not even going to say what I first thought the topic title said. :LOL:

Yes, packing sucks. I can't imagine doing it with two toddlers and two cats.

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Packing sucks, but unpacking is so much worse for me. I've lived in my house for 2.5 years now and I still have some boxes in a closet I haven't fully unpacked…

Not to mention I haven't fully unpacked my suitcase from a trip I took like 3 weeks ago.

I might just be a piece of shit, though.
The secret question we all ask ourselves, "am I a piece of shit?" I imagine the fact that you even think to ask, is a good sign.
 
The secret question we all ask ourselves, "am I a piece of shit?" I imagine the fact that you even think to ask, is a good sign.
One time I prototyped a smartphone app, where once a day (at the end of the day or beginning of the next day) it would simply ask you "was I a piece of shit?"

It was meant to try and loosely keep you accountable without requiring you to log a bunch of data. 😂

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