What a relief that must have been. Glad it all went well. I will be facing something similar in the next few months as my house is up for sale and I haven't moved in almost 40 years.

oh I love it when the whole moving mess is over and done with but it seems like it takes me for ever to get all the finishing stuff done. In fact I still have boxes that got shoved in the hall closets that I have no idea what is in them LOL. And the garage holds many secrets! Hopefully somewhere in there are some of my kitchen items that have gone missing. They got some of the kitchen stuff mixed up with the garage stuff somehow.

It is such a great feeling to know you had wonderful movers.
Our last movers were with out doubt the best we have ever had.

Congrats!!!

Fran, that's exactly OUR situation. We've been in this house for over 39 years, and we're honestly sort of packrats. It's been and experience trying to organize and reduce the clutter.

I hope you have the good luck we did selling--found buyers rather quickly--who have been a dream to work with (so far--and just the walk-through and closing to go!). And may you find movers who are as good as ours!

Am sure you've done a lot of decluttering to list the house--I can only suggest continuing to do so, as enthusiastically as possible.

One thing I did this past weekend? I put post-it notes on EVERYthing. They were color-coded (pink for main floor, yellow for basement), and each stated the destination room at the new house. It really seemed to speed things along, I didn't have to direct anything much once we got to the new house. Of course, there was one little glitch with that, one of the movers was color-blind, but he said the colors I used were ones he could distinguish!

Again, best of luck to you!

Wow! What a quick process. It usually takes the movers all day to load when I move. Unloading goes so much faster.

Raven,

Unbelievably, I think my kitchen stuff has MULTIPLIED in the boxes. Seems to be much more than I started with--LOL!

I'm not going to get too crazy about unpacking until after we go to settlement in 2 weeks. For now, cleaning, and touching up paint and polyeurothane in the old house ought to keep me busy enough.

Well, honestly, Fun, we've had the country house for 4 years, so we've moved a LOT of stuff ourselves, and gotten rid of a lot more. But it was still a fair amount that they were moving--one bedroom, large heavy dining room set, kitchen set, cluttered living room, and half the garage stuff and a bunch more boxes, so yes, I was really impressed at their work ethic and speed. So much easier than putting the call out to all the friends with pickups--LOL!

Wow, happy to hear your move went so well! How good for y'all! We just moved 65 miles and then moved 1000 miles 3 months later. We've been renting for 6 months and looking to buy. Moving is traumatic no matter how smooth the actual move goes.We've moved 8 times, usually about 1000 miles. I can tell you horror stories. . . .

That is great it went so smoothly, Azzalea! What a relief that must be! Your idea for post-it notes is great. Cleaning & sprucing will now be easy with all the "stuff" out.

I haven't moved in 30 years... I can't imagine the drudge of our doing so. I would like to do so just to downsize & get rid of a ton of junque, before we get so old that it is next to impossible. But dh wouldn't consider it.

Glad it went well. I am determined NEVER to move. I have too much stuff to pack up plus I would never leave my perennial plants.

LOL--I laughingly advise everyone to move every 10 years, so the build-up isn't as bad!
As to the perennials--we've had the other house for 4 years now, so I actually had the time to move (or make cuttings of) a lot of stuff I wanted (my irises, lilies of the valley, white violets, pussy willows, horseradish, zoysia grass, my big rosemary bush, mint, all my bulbs, etc). I do want to see if I can do some cuttings from the scotch broom--never knew you could but an internet search seems to think it's possible--cant hurt to try! Some that were too big to move, I've already bought and planted 'replacements--concord grapes, raspberry bushes.

And it's been fun to plan and buy new varieties that I haven't had before--so far, I've added some heavenly bamboo, Japanese Holly. Getting my garden going is one of the great pleasures of this move.