Originally Posted by
Brierley
I got a load of strong cardboard boxes (new) given thankfully so used them when we moved. Like you, we left a lot of the furniture behind, but did bring the fridge freezer, washing machine, TV all of which were fairly new (and very damned heavy). We moved using a cheap rental van and just me and Dave. Dave was ill with a bad chest problem at the time so muggins here did most of the running up and down to the van. Of course, being a true Yorkshire man, Dave said we would manage and it would save pounds
It did and we did, but it was very, very hard work. The bungalow needed gutting so we lived in the static caravan we had bought on a nearby site for 6 weeks until we got it done. Thankfully, because of that, we moved the stuff over on the Saturday, but parked up outside the van until Sunday before unloading it - otherwise I think it would have been the death of us
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Having had one sale break down, I wouldn't pack a single thing until I was sure we were out of the danger zone so everything was done in the last week - that was a big mistake!
Blimey Chris, sounds like you had a real tough time with your last move there
and yes, I think it might have done just that if you hadn't parked up like that for a night's kip! We used my horse lorry when we moved here, and I remember having my little old estate full to the brim with those last few items, with the dogs perched on the top lol! How I drove here I don't know, but I remember it well! I shall make sure me and Zena get a head start on the morning, and leave them to it I think! Luckily, one of the guys Dave has lynched to help us, actually used to work for a removal company, so hopefully he hasn't forgotten how to do it. Every time I have to move a piece of furniture with Dave it sets us off laughing, and we have to stop coz we're both cracked up!! This is all because when we bought that guest house many years ago, 10 big bedrooms on 3 floors, we had to get all the beds out before we could gut it, and bringing those mattresses down was a right scream going round those corners, and me being pushed down the stairs, so it's kind of stuck with us, and it's impossible for us to move anything nowadays, without having those memories and laughing. Last night we attempted the dining room table out into the garage from the dining room, and the first thing he said to me was "don't laugh"!!!!
As he was trying to dismantle it all, he had Zena leaping on him, kissing his face, so that set him off already, I had no chance of not laughing
Funny how life has you crying your heart out one minute and laughing in hysterics the next isn't it. Oh dear, hope that doesn't mean.......
Originally Posted by
Dobermann
Maybe you'll only need bulbs for the lights, or they have tripped or something? Hopefully won't cost you too much.
Sadly not Nicola, he said he took them apart last week-end and they've almost disintegrated inside coz the weather has got to them, shame, coz they are really nice lights but I'm going for the cheap option this time, case of having to!
Originally Posted by
Losos
Oh don't remind me
we've moved more times than I want to think about, once we hired a big Luton van and loaded everything into that, worked from
dawn to dusk and it dam near killed me But you are right it can save a huge amount and you know what's fragile and you put it in the right place, the one and only time we used a removal firm we had two breakages, one of which was a nice antique which couldn't be repaired and
we only had a few pieces that could be classed as 'antique'
In case you are wondering we
still only have a few pieces that are genuine antique
Oh H, that reminds me of when we went over to Mallorca to sell mum's flat, we had to move the WHOLE lot out in one day, coz at 10pm the night before, I got a phone call from the solicitor saying they wanted vacant posession, otherwise they weren't gonna buy it
OMG, I had to ring up this antique dealer chap in the UK, who knew a man in Mallorca, and he came round and met us at the flat at 8.30 and gave me a price for the lot! He only wanted certain bits, but I told him, he's gotta take it ALL, otherwise he can't have those bits he wants lol! We started at 5 am and finished at 7pm totally knackered, 2 flights of narrow stairs, or a lift that you could only get 2 people in!!!
The local charity shop did very well indeed I can tell ya! 25 years of mum's memories and cherished moments, all gone, because although I had ordered a big van to bring stuff back to the UK that she wanted, there was a limit on how much he would bring, so choices were made, it broke my heart
Every drawer and cupboard we opened was FULL of stuff and there were a lot of drawers and cupboards, ruthless was putting it mildly, but we had no choice, mum had expected to be going back there, and that couldn't happen for her with a broken ankle and being 81 at the time, she made a choice, sad as it was
She will love this new place though!!!!!