LittleWindowpane

Was she autistic?

Thanks! It was my family and I; we didn't hire anyone for brawn. That was utter chaos though. Things were in a state of chaos, things were getting lost and then found again, things were getting thrown out that we needed...If you've seen amateurs move, you'll understand. If not, I can't really describe it.

Total breakage+loss was probably around 3 or 4 percent total, and it took us two months of packing and then 9 days, 12 hours a day, to move it all. We secured every "layer" of furniture and junk with ropes, every five feet or so, and threw out a LOT of stuff after every move: we had a trash pile five or six feet high and 20 feet long after one move. We worked like animals, for sure. We weren't hoarders; most people don't realize how much JUNK they accumulate. I've seen my friends' houses: till they move, they don't know that they have a GODly amount of junk there.

Thanks for the compliment. I thought pros would do better than us: after all, they did this all the time and weren't amateurs like us.

We did 50 miles, tops, no cross country moves like this. We broke about 1 or 2 percent of our stuff and lost another 1 or 2 percent. How many tons do you reckon 7 24 foot U hauls full of household stuff weighs?

Moving is utter chaos...We had 6 or 8 24-foot U-haul trucks. We did DIY because we were broke.