Message of the Day: Boxes Boxes Everywhere and all the bones did creak!

Good Morning,

 

This past weekend my family and I moved to our new home. We did it with the help of many loving people, and now we try to rest, recoup, clean up the old home and set up the new one.

 

There is a lot to be learned from the moving experience. The most obvious one is ‘don’t’. I am perfectly happy never moving again, but should I have to there is a lot of wisdom that can be gleaned from the harrowing experience.

 

First, it is almost always a bigger project than you first assume. For example, you can look at furniture and closets and stuff to assess how many boxes or tubs you will need, and when you purchase them, get 20% more than you expected. You will invariably find stuff you did not realize that you had stuffed somewhere. Make lists of what needs to be done, and leave room to add on what was initially forgotten, there always seems to be something.

 

Second, there is a lot to be considered outside of your ability to directly control. This includes changing the utilities, newspaper service, internet, mailing address, garbage service, etc. Relying on so many different groups and people to bring the entire move project together flawlessly is difficult. Often you have to rely on those you do not know or have little faith in. You can plan ahead, but it is often better to plan to do without while everything in the move normalizes.

 

Third, even if you purge your things before you move, you are inevitably going to regret that which you tossed out, and later when you are organizing your new home, regretting what you kept and have to throw out afterwards.

 

Moving is a lot like life in that there is so much to consider, so much that can go wrong, and during the process, the rest of the world does not stop and sit idly by as you make your move, they often expect you to be ready and able to do what is needed when it is needed.

 

The project can be done with a lot of planning or little to none, although the clean up efforts after the project seems to be inversely proportional to the amount of initial planning that was put in.

 

While I am hopeful to never have to move again, I know there will be large projects ahead in life which I can apply these lessons to, and I hope you can too.

 

Enjoy, and I am off to do some unpacking/cleaning/getting ready for work, etc….

 

Sanford Berenberg

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