Moving house: need your funny stories

I've moved so many times that it's now an art form. Lol
Good luck and always leave extra time, don't rush.

Good luck with your move, it’s not so bad. I had the pleasure of traveling to 77 Countries with my job, a few I ended up staying for a year to three. I have no regrets, I kind of miss those hectic days. Now it’s basically me here with my pipes and tobacco’s. I’m finding more and more each day the only time you hear from family is when they need you, just how much of that I’ll tolerate I really don’t know!

The BIGGEST mistake was moving to NC once I became ill, one learns fast from his/her mistakes!!!
Next big move for my will be to Lindenhurst, NY .....where my plot is or off to Israel if I felt better. Again, one day at a time!!!

We drop semi trailers at residences, the customer uses whatever portion of the trailer they need, and when done, they put up the moveable bulkhead... we load freight behind it.

One family had decided that they were going to leave their cat with family back in Missouri, on moving day the cat disappeared. When they took the bulkhead down at the destination point, out strutted Morris the cat!
Thank God they didn’t use the long term storage option.

Moving out of my VA home, first one too, we upgraded as they say nowadays, wife and I brought boxes of our move and left to get another load. Unbeknownst to us the previous owner had called salvation army and said they could have boxes under garage which was an open garage where we had left ours, fortunately we arrived just in time as a Salvation Army truck was loading the last of our boxes. That’s the only time in my life I had to get huffy with the Salvation Army, we were lucky as we would have never known. Oh this was in day where Porch Pirates and other crap in human nature was not so bold. Looking back it’s a laugh , but moving is the Pitts. Moving out of this home is another story.

I've not got any fun stories about moving. I'll more than likely be moving some time in the 2019/2020 academic year so I'll feel your pain soon enough.


All i can can say is that I'll be waiting for you for a pipe and a pint!

   Paddy, when it’s time for you to move, may it not be London!!!

  All the best to you and your family wherever you move to. Who knows, you might not have to👍

Not a bad way to operate. I learned my lesson in 2005.

I moved from California to Arizona, my two oldest were still in college in Arizona, and my youngest was in high school. I filled a 25' long Budget truck, every nook and cranny, and later 19 feet of a 28' semi trailer. When we bought a house none of the living room furniture worked in the new house, so after loading in Ca., paying the freight, unloading in Arizona, I sold it off at fire sale prices...next time it will be more of a minimalist move, we have boatloads of stuff that I plan on liquidating off over the next few years.

You're a star!

Cross USA off your list. We SUX. Canada is the place.   

When you move, you find out who your real friends are. People seem to disappear when that time comes. However, I've helped many "friends" move that are no longer friends anymore.

I have no good stories, but thinking about it makes my back hurt...

I can fit all my "valuables" and my clothes in my car and disappear!

Not a funny story by any stretch.

When I did move from California as I said I rented a Budget truck, I asked the salesman what would happen if I broke down. "Nothing to worry about, the truck you are getting has 500 miles on the odometer." I spent a day and a half filling every nook and cranny, got 10 miles out of town and the transmission blew up.
I called them, and they had it towed 60 miles north (opposite direction) to an International dealership in San Jose. The load needed to be transferred, and the sales guy said "No worries we have a crack team to get on it. I was thinking that they would contract a moving company, right?
No, it was the dregs of society that showed up, one guy had the teardrop tattoo on his face...crack team alright, I didn't know he was talking about lifestyle choices!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop_tattoo
I am now going on 30 hours with no sleep and I have to ride herd on a bunch of dirtbags! Something happened as they flipped a dresser, and some silver coins fell out of my dresser...One of the guys hollered : "Dude!" in a manner that he had just struck paydirt...Eureka! in dirtbag talk!
I kept an eye on them as best I could, so when they weren't loading sensitive stuff, I used the restroom, etc...

When I unloaded in Arizona, I realized that they had set my latex mattress in an oil puddle at the truck facility, and it wicked up oil like Jim wicks up tobacco. A bedrail went through the tube of my 27' SonyTV enroute, and my oak furniture looked like a scriber's awl was taken to it...I had to stage it all for the claims guy, it was about $5,000.00 worth of damaged goods. What a pain in the arse.

Any interstate moves in the future are on an ABF trailer, if the truck breaks down, unhook and put a new horse under it...and I don't have to drive it.

That was a move from Hell, in more ways than one.

I had been rode hard and put up wet one week, and the temps were running 110 degrees when a buddy that was needing to move needed help over the weekend, and I know he was pretty strapped for money...I went down to a day labor service where they say they vet the workers and I paid for a guy to help my friend, he appreciated it...said the guy really worked hard and was careful.

Where are you in your move?