Before moving day

Before moving day – By Aaron Goldberg

Six to eight weeks before moving day:
Work with the moving company
set date so that the mover’s agent examines your house visually and for an evaluation prepares.

• If your company pays for your move, ask them to their moving policy in order to determine the services which the moving company will be authorized and able to provide.

• Do you want to make the packing yourself? , or do you prefer the mover to pack for you ? would you rather it done by experienced packers? (highly recommended in most cases unless you are a former movers or have good hands) Your mover will be happy to discuss the packing services with you.

• In the visual inspection help, show the mover all items which will be moved.
All articles which you do not reveal or that are added later on to the move will increase the cost, even if you were given an binding quote.

• Read the “Your rights and responsibilities Manual” to ensure that you entirely include and understand the responsibilities of the carrier. And the responsibilities of you.

• Sign the estimate / order for the service after you are sure that you have a clear understanding of each section. If you have any questions, ask your movers explain.

• Keep the phone number and the name of your salesman , mover and the coordinator handy.

Four to six weeks before Moving day:

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• Inform the post office that you move.
change your mailing address online, address the form is available on the Web site of postal service of the United States.
• Prepare a list of friends, parents, companies and businesses and of all others which should be advised of your move.

The following checklist will be useful:
• Have a ” garage sale” or use an online service of bidding to have the neighbors know that you are moving furniture. You can use http://www.craigslist.org or http://www.ebay.com/ Ask your moving company a copy of there ” ; Leave a second hand trade to residence to light Load” ; booklet.
• Give the unwanted goods and clothing or domestic equipment at the charitable organizations. Obtain the receipts showing the items , approximate value for possible tax deductions.
• Start to exhaust supplies goods out of box, deep-frozen foods and of other articles of household. Buy only what will be employed before displacement.

Two to three weeks before Moving day:
Again Work with your mover …
• Inform your mover if you add or withdraw articles of your move or if there are changes of the dates. Be sure to provide your mover addresses of destination and the phone numbers where you can be reached!!!
• Confirm all the necessary additional stops to take or deliver goods to a place other than the principal points of pick up and/or delivery.
• If your car is moved, be prepared to lead it to a suitable site of loading / pick up. Also be prepared to take your car at a suitable place at the destination.
Preparation of the family:
• Have Family Gathering.
• Take the family for a good-bye visit of  with some of the places which carry happy memories.
• Have an active-far a part for the children and their friends.
• Have recreation for yourself… an open house or a dinner or a BBQ without ceremony..
• Made travel plans for your family. Reserve the rooms at the hotel and the tickets the plane if necessary.
• If leading, have your car maintained for trip (tires of control, brakes and windscreen wiper, fluids, belts, etc)
Preparation the articles household:
• The federal law requires that you have flammables such as arms, of the liquids of cleaning, the matches, the acids, the whole of chemistry, the cansof aerosol, of the ammunition, and the poisons such as the bleaches on grass.
Evacuate the fuel your lawn mower and of other machines.
Throw the oil cans partly used, painting, thinner, agent bleaching, or all the other substances which can be flammable or combustible or those stored in containers which can run.
Please read the complete listing of non-allow ables.
• Empty the propane tanks which are used for grills of barbecue.
• Fix a date to have utilities disconnected. If possible, envisage to maintain utilities in the service by the mobile day.
• Have the cleaned covers and the curtains. Leave both wrapped when they are turned over pickling solutions.
• Obtain an evaluation written of the ancient articles to check the value. Avoid waxing or oiling antiquities of wood (and the fine pieces of furniture out of wooden) before displacement because some products could soften wood, making them vulnerable to the impression starting from the trimmings of pieces of wooden  furniture.
• Do not clean your pieces of furniture papered before displacement. the moisture could cause the mold so pieces of furniture must be placed in storage. Ask your agent a copy of our “is there are antiquities in your move…  booklet.
• MOVING DAY ! = RELAX ! = don’t worry be happy
• RELAX !

A Good Moving Company Can Do Wonders To Your life

A Good Moving Company Can Do Wonders To Your Move, (and Subsequently to your life… ) but the conclusion the right of all the moving companies outside there can be completely a challenge. It is not right like simple that seeking the ” moving companies ” ; in the phone book.

don’t worry be happy movers

The of choice; a moving service is the one of the most important decisions in the moving process, and should be made carefully extreme. OF access with far, there is dozen various kinds of moving companies: the local movers, the movers of house, the movers of pieces of furniture, movers of piano, and the basic movers are right some of the many moving services available. Exactly what your move requires should dictate which kind of moving company you rent. Then there evaluates. Not all the moving companies equal are created and nor the nor a the other are not their lists of the prices. The moving companies can, and often will, to provide very different evaluations for the same abundant services. THE obtaining the best quotations of the moving companies just by composing your way by the Yellow Pages could take hours. And even then you would not be completely in the free space. Some moving companies without scruples will provide to consumers of low evaluations, only with the point on the supplements once you signed with them. You could just give up, to rent a van and to move it all yourself (if so, check our section coil-moving of companies) or you could do it all with some clicks of your mouse: write just little of information on your move above, and in one nothing time the 123 movers will provide you competing and free quotations moving companies in your sector which have just good the equipment and experience to maintain your move. when we moved last time we had a great beach party with all our friends from Los Angeles it was great, parties on the beach are awesome.

Introduction to Moving

Introduction to Moving When you make a decision to move at a new house it must have there hundreds of questions that you want to have answers for.
If this will be your first move , you can find this guide to be extremely useful with moving help, even if you have moved across the country a few times before, it might still help you to make some moving related decisions.
Majority of this guide will help you get ready for next move. If you have moving experience it will even help more to ease the stress related in moving
Information of this Moving guide was collected by moving veterans of the Moving industry (veterans movers) and of  many other important sources.
Please, read them carefully, and have an easy move!
1. When to move
When to move the first question the comes to mind will be: “when the best time in year to move so that the price will be the cheapest ? “
You should schedule your move to have at the same time that is most convenient to you and for your family .
Because of the seasonal nature of the moving industry (most of the moves take place in the summer month June thro August) you should remember that during those month it will be more difficult to find a good moving company, and the cost will probably be more expensive .
Those times include: A) The months of summer as many of families are on summer vacation and the children are out of school .
Even more the summer time is usually more suitable moving (not raining, highways are open all over the country , not mud at you door step, not cold out side for the movers so they complete your move faster) .
B) Beginning and end of each month – the first and last days of each month, due to all apartment leases running out are usually much busier, are very busy days for the moving industry.
If you can coordinate a mid month move with your landlord or leasing agent when moving in this could potentially could save you hundreds (200-400 USD) on a local move and thousands on a long distance move.

C) End of the holiday season, each year during holidays when Christmas Trees light come out from December tend to being particularly busy, reason being that a lot of people get time off During the holidays from about
Thanks Giving to new years eve and they can move during this time. In those peak periods the demand for moving services is significantly higher, and thus are the prices. Moreover, it is more difficult than the moving companies ensure the quality of the service than you

Moved Out my Girlfriend

Moved my Girlfriend Out ! yes it happened, unfortunately it had to happen in the cold New York City winter and I had to sleep alone in the cold bad all by my self   .

the beginning of the relationship was amazing, we met at a beach vacation in Cancun Mexico one of the most amazing romantic dream vacations places out there so romantic with sunsets by the beach  ….
it was amazing, we rented a boat and went Deep Sea Fishing, without disturbing the Ecotourism, she was a very environment friendly person and didn’t want us to fish the protected fishes , so we had to let them go.. it was the perfect Family Getaway as we called although we weren’t even family at this point funny. to top it all off she looked great in a bikini , she was one f the hottest beach babe I have ever dated.

we feel in love with each other immediately. since that we spent almost every minutes together .. sex was great , we decided to move together since she any way spent all her time in my place anyways.
We also wanted to save on the long distance phone calls, her move is of course was a nightmare didn’t realized how much shit that girl owned, in her closets  it always looked so little but when a box after box filled with useless girly shit came into my apartment, i started realizing the size of the mistake I have made.
the move it self funny enough went well the movers where from a reputable moving company we hired, recommended to me by a friend , there are dozens of moving companies out there he said but you have be careful from the bad ones he said, anyways the movers were on time ,quick time, polite and did a quick and efficient job it even took less time then they thought it will so since it was a local hourly move only 70 miles … it even costs less, I think the movers were called Ben Hur Moving and Storage I would recommenced them in a heart bit to any of my friends.

… as the days went by the situation deteriorated fast, one day when she was getting on of her Facial Treatment, I found some of her old boyfriend’s love letters that she kept , that already pissed my off as hell, later on this day we got into a huge fight , that fight to me was the beginning of the end, we yelled at each other a lot and she throw a few dishes to the air … hot Latina blood what can I say.
ever since that things weren’t the same we just got into stupid little fights, what can maybe it was partly my fault too for thing not working out between us, i surly have some of the blame but the girl was simply too much to deal with, it was the same cute nice i knew before , she turned into a manipulative mean woman who only have her self on her mind .

so one gray depressing New York City day the decision fell she is moving out! A small sense of relief and getting ready for this moment let me tell you people….. wasn’t nice.
All about it in my next blog post, thanks for reading Shawn.

Moving in the summer

when the best hour so that j’ does it take place moves? ” ; You should envisage your move of to have at the same time convenient place for you and your family. However, because of a seasonal nature of the moving industry you should remember qu’ during certain periods it will be more difficult to find a good engine, and the prices tend to being generally higher. These periods include: 1) The months of summer for much of families with the summer of children is the most convenient hour to move because the limit of school is in rise. Moreover, time of summer is appropriate usually more to moving. 2) Beginning and end of each month – the first and last days of each month, independently of season, are very occupied days for the moving industry. 3) End of the season of the holidays of year during fine things from December tend to being particularly agitated. During the ” ; peak” ; periods the request for moving services is higher, and thus is the prices. Moreover, it is more difficult than the moving companies ensure the quality of the service than you would expect, returning your move much more stressing. To learn more about various factors influencing the cost of your move read the Guide-> moving; Planning of your moving budget What to move the question the number two would be ” ; quest this that I should move at a new place, and what to leave? ” ; General basic principle: an article which hasn’t used in on the year should be considered to be sold, giving, re-using, or to be just wasted. Perhaps consult your family members that might need for him has. Take care you to inspect your from top to bottom house and to decide what goes and what remains. If you envisage to make take care you a visit of a visual estimator to know exactly what you want that the moving company moves for you. Show all these articles with the estimator. You could have things these you don T want left with, but which will be inevitably stored in a storage, a hangar, or a garage after the move. These articles should be packed very well in containers which are rodent, moisture and proof of dust. To learn more about preparing your articles to store the Guide-> moving read; Moving ends of storage. Some articles can T is moved whole, or should be moved carefully special. These articles include dangerous materials, the perishables, and the articles personal and valid. To learn more about make-not-move the Guide-> moving read by articles; Make-not-move the articles. How to move the next question will be ” ; how j’ to go am to move? If I to do it myself, or would owe j’ to engage a moving company? ” ; There in the three manners generals of moving: 1) Engage a moving company of complete service which will make very for you; 2) Rent a truck and move you; 3) Engage a moving company of individual who will provide you a truck and a driver, but you will have to charge and discharge by yourself. Independently of the option that you choose, point out you to reserve your moving services or to exchange them to fix your date and hour moving well ahead. Read more to learn how with: the choose the good moving company: Guide-> moving; OF choice; an engine renting a truck: Guide-> moving; Foundations of hiring of truck use of the moving services of individual: Guide-> moving; Ends moving of individual Moreover, by exploring your moving options consider the following ends: The assistance of hiring if you decide to move you could want to employ the additional help to charge or discharge. There are companies which only offer moving work. You can find such a company in our site Moving section of work. Small moves if your forwarding is really small and can s’ to adapt in a small van your move is considered small move. Some companies (often called like ” ; Man-with-a-Van” services inexpensive of offer for small moves. You can find such a company in  , Small section of move. Moving insurance – if you engage a professional, it good idea of SA of to ensure your business. The replacement of the damaged businesses is awkward, but possible with the suitable insurance. Discover if your homeowner S or renter the police force of insurances of S covers your businesses in transit. To learn more about the moving insurance read our ”  moving; Guarantee of your business New It’ places; ; S important to pay the attention with the doors and the halls in your new house. Some of your old pieces of furniture could not s’ to adapt, and will have to be abandoned. Examine the space to ensure your apparatuses of laundry and kitchen, such as the refrigerator. And in conclusion, check where the TV, the telephone and connections Internet are localized. Automatic moving if you decide of to employ a ” , the automatic service of transport to move your car, consult our site:  Ends moving of car. above COME AFTERWORDS: 4. Preparation with move 5. Moving day 6. What to make after the NEAREST move > OF PAGE; > ; Chapter 1: Introduction to moving (continuation) All the ends of packing Arrange your finances. It S important to organize your finances to be ready for all kinds of surprised and emergencies unexpected. Consult the following ends: You ensure that bonds of direct flow and invoicing on your bank accounts are organized to handle all the changes wisely resulting from your Economizes move and conservative for all the articles which will be necessary once you are in your new house. Open the new bank account. Test of to open a new account before closing your old, and transfer your funds. Maintain a notation detailed of the expenditure moving in your book. Some can be deductible from the tax, thus you ensure subsistence all the receipts. To learn more read the Guide-> moving; Planning of your moving budget Change of your address. You point out of to inform the post office that you will move, and provide them a new address. It can be on line made click on here. It is important to provide companies an address of forwarding where they can send the final invoices. Don T s’ obtain astonished with the late fees and the circumstances by credit. Moreover, it is important of to teach with your children the new ones addresses and phone number. Ask them for the to write on each packed box the practice. Don T forget small things: Examine the dry cleaners to ensure something which you must always gather. Put side and mark the keys to give the new owners of a house. Return all the books of library, videos of hiring, or articles which you could have borrowed from the friends or the neighbors. Take care to recover the articles as well once borrowed S from you. Utilities. Very a big part of your move is unpacking and reconnection of all the utilities. Consult the following ends: You inform about rules of overcharge by selecting the firms of public service or by visiting their Web sites. For the overcharge or the transfer of your utilities contact the companies at least during two weeks before the move. It will give them enough time to take the final readings of the water, of gas, and the electric meters. It also will save you the tender with all the late of expenses; opinion. Arrange all the invoices which are shaken before the moving day, and recover all refunding and deposits. If you move through the city.

the best to choose moving companies

The way best to choose moving companies is by Good Tips for a Good Move , By Dedi Martinez, I do not praise myself but I am incredibly organized.
I made envisage my whole move to the bottom with the smallest details before my date of move, Was my move why then a disaster?
I had done all, the had of plan, urgency for each possible thing which could make wrong, however for my moving day proven to be the only day more stressing which I can remember.
I obtained many gray hairs the moving day but I should have to better know in spite of all the work of planning and preparation, when it goes down to him to count to you on of other people when it comes at the moving day.
The biggest problem the number one, the people who bought are house were of out of city and were revealed one day early with their moving truck and demanded if we could be able to leave early, but for not so to worry about it if us couldn’t’ ,. However they had two small children and a dog, and in spite of the fact that they shouldn’t’ ,
Supposed they could move me early inside just felt afflicted for them so sitting in their moving truck.
The problem the number two, in spite of the fact that the invited to confirm not once but twice, the movers were twelve hours of late. Consequently we began our move at midnight against midday. The fact they were late n’ was not also bad, but the fact this us didn’t’.
know they went late and never to say to us let wonder so they came from the whole. Each time we called the mover they said, ” , they should be there in fifteen minutes, ” , and c’ was driving that we checked and called references above. Problem number three, the guard of children that we had undertaken of to observe our daughter while we were in the middle of our move through the countermanded city parcel it is descended with the influenza. The problem the number four, at morning when the movers charged our crystal and the majority with the fragile articles on the moving truck a storm of hail started.
This wasn’t , a storm which started with a little hello of drizzle then of beginning. The open skies and immediately drew in bottom from the hail classified by golf-ball during ten minutes damaging some severely from my preferred heritages of family. There are more difficulties which arose but of , stop of here because you obtain the image. About of halfway by the move with 3:00 the morning my breath became short, the had a principal evil and the stays tired.
They continued with the obtaining opposed more and more because the tried to order this unverifiable circus which my move had become.
Finally the stopped and took a major breathing and said to me, made you the best planning of work than you could probably to you can’ , the ordering of of other people or causes beyond control, let disappear! and is exactly this what the made.
They wiped the air threatening in addition to my face each time the movers m’ passed and instead of having a resentment against them I probably carried them out didn’t’ , appear late on the goal. I offered certain Gatorade and some sandwiches to them which we had in our cooler. We also awoke the people who entered our house which was deadened posted in their truck and some codlings offered to them.
This multi-colored crew from abroad so sat in circle on our floor of part of family and laughed with all our deaf-mute chance with 3:30 the morning. Useless to say the move went better from there, but the learned an important lesson this night not out of the inspiration but out of despair. I am a copilot of my life as well as possible I can’ , the ordering of all, there is in fact very little which I can order. If I make my the best, lower my hopes, and detach my handle on the reigns which I am a happier whole fate. House Makes fast: 99% of our guarantors of outline would recommend the moving boxes of day to the friends and to the family. ” ,
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Smart moving How to absorb the effort out of moving. is the one of the events more stressing in a person’ , life of S, line as strongly as the death of liked or the divorce. But with the good kind of planning and care much less, you can return your move stressing. The ends moving described in this article are conceived mainly to cover the moves of a state with another (a move between two states or more),
But several of the ends also apply (in the same state) to the local moves and between States and to international forwarding. Number 1 of end — Envisage your date of move the first stage is to plan for the future. Jus makes an attempt, at last minute — particularly during the season of summer occupied — limit your options and can have as consequence disappointment when it has suddenly fixed the services of the mover which you want at the date of your choice. We recommend that you start to take arrangements for your move at least four to six weeks before the moving date.
And here an end of interior of quel one which knows the moving industry. The majority of the people want to move during the summer, when the children are out-of-schools. This means that as from May with the movers of September are extremely occupied. If you can ensure your move n’ import which other time, you have a much better possibility to fix a move of quality of the company of your choice. Moreover, the majority of the movers offer low prices between the months of October and April.
In the same way, the majority of the people want to move at the whole beginning or the end of the month, because the majority of the payments of rent and of mortgage fell at the beginning of each month. However, if you can ensure your move in the middle of the month, you will increase not only the probability of to obtain a crew signal-notch and the mover which you want, but the exact dates of collection and delivery you require. Number 2 of end — Find an mover professional AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION does not recommend the moving companies nor it recommends a moving company above the others. However, by choosing an mover – particularly an mover of a state with another — we encourage consumers to choose a moving company which is a member of AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION. Members of the AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION are necessary to respect the limits of our published tariffs of evaluation,
observe payments of consumer protection of federal government, and to take part in the program of arbitration financed by our organization.
We also recommend that you choose among the many members of AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION which also take part in the mover and Van Line Program certified by AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION.
AMERICAN MOVING & STORAGE ASSOCIATION certified movers and Van Lines is companies which voluntarily agreed to conform to a code of conduct which requires the complete disclosure of moving information to the consumers, with the written evaluations of the expenses, the convenient service and the prompt response to the complaints and the complaints.

The first time we got in a fight we had just moved in together and we were coming home from Ikea. I had spent about 2000 dollars on girlish furniture for our apartment that I didn’t even like in the first place. We’d been at it for days until she finally saw what she wanted and made up her mind to get it. I was pretty tired that day and didn’t want to talk, but she began to go on about how we would arrange our furniture and how we had to be home for delivery and how everything had to be perfectly arranged. I didn’t say anything and just let her ramble about how it was such a good idea that we had picked everything together. Suddenly, the bomb came off: Why aren’t you speaking? Don’t you care?

I told her I was happy she had chosen things she liked. It was as if I had stepped on her corns. She got angry as I had never seen her before.   After she screamed at me all the way home, she stopped and didn’t talk to me for the rest of the evening and night.  The next day, I went to work early. I thought she had forgotten the subject.

About at noon, I got a call from the moving company.  The movers wanted to know where to deliver my stuff.  I was confused and told them there had been a mistake and I was not moving, I thought it was the delivery people from Ikea, so I gave them my home address.  They called back after a few minutes telling me that address was the pick up address, not the delivery address.

This is when I began to worry. I called home and she said she had hired a moving company to take all my things away because since I didn’t care about our apartment, I wouldn’t care either about moving out of it. Just a little wrong, she was. I called a friend and asked him if I could crash for a few days at his place and drop my stuff at his storage room. So I spoke to the movers and they delivered my stuff at his place on that afternoon. I almost lost my job because of this joke.

When I got to my friend’s house to receive my move, the movers delivered my clothes, a couch, and a plasma TV. I had nothing to place in storage. So I had stayed at my friend’s house for about a week when she called me. We started meeting again, and again, and again, and before the end of the month I was back at our place, good as new, happier than ever.

Our place was turning into a peaceful home; we even got a dog, when she lost it again about 3 months ago.  She began to complain about the dog not going out to walk enough. She wanted the dog in the first place and I was the one taking him out every evening, and picking up after him. This time we got in a fight about the dog and how he was getting fat and hairy all over the place.

This time she didn’t have to kick me out, as soon as I heard her speak like that, I flashed myself into the future and imagined us with a child. I couldn’t bear the site. So I called the movers myself. They came the next morning. Luckily for me it was not a very strong moving season so they had moving availability the next day.  I took everything.  I had them pack even the toilet paper.  I told the movers to leave all of her stuff but to take everything I had paid for.  Since I hadn’t had time to rent an apartment, I took all that stuff into storage.  They had my move delivered to a warehouse where I had full access anytime.

A few weeks later I was moving to my new bachelor’s apartment. The same movers again helped me with this move from the storage to the apartment.  They were very helpful and even nice to me, as they cheered me up and encouraged me to keep on with my life, (since they had witnessed the whole break up and all).

Today I feel a lot better.  Next time I fall in love I will be looking out for beware signs before I move in with someone. I like living alone, not having to worry about when I’m going to be moved out of my house, or how much extra I have to pay for last minute moves into storage. I feel just fine like this.

movers in California

Licensed moving companies are required to meet a few over moving requirement, publish their tariffs and or list of prices to who ever wants to see a copy.
publish their arbitration program and disputes settlement programs which should include neutral arbitration in case a conflict arises, between the mover and the customer.

Publish their damage and claim procedures in case some items arrive missing or broken During the move.
Movers are also require to maintain minimum liability insurance and auto liability insurance and workers compensation insurance in cases they have employees.
Another point to remember when considering hiring a moving company is using common sense of the price looks too good to be true it usually is, there is a reason why one mover will give a price half then the rest of the competition average , he would cut down all on all the possible costs and will reduce dramatically the quality of the move, that might results in late delivery extensive damage to your furniture lost items during moving etc ..
All the above resource are intended for your protection during the moving process, and the best selection of moving companies,  but as we said before couldn’t replace using common sense. Ask friends and family as to positive moving experience and moving quotes which they received for their moves.
Take guard of the companies which do not provide any commercial address on their Web site, documents of  businesses, or a company which is hesitant to provide you their physical commercial address.
It is important that you know where to contact the company if you have a problem.
Plan to visit the Moving company office, before you make your final decision
This could be a stratagem simply to enter a person of sales your house to give you an evaluation. Made attention, made the research and decide which to invite in your house, based on references. You always point out that the price moving evaluation should never be the deciding factor. The reputation of the moving company goes a long way. Moreover, you should be able to meet or speak to the owner about the company. If you can speak to the owner about the businesses, even if only by the telephone, you will be able to develop a feeling of confidence that it is tested and enough able to ensure a professional moving process.
Thanks for read so far, Sean Davis

I learned very early in life not to be too fond of things or people, because sooner or later you’ll eventually have to leave them all behind. It all began when my father went into the political world. He began to travel so much we hardly ever saw him.  The first time we moved I was 5 years old, just going into first grade and we were moving to Washington.
 talk about california-dreaming. I was born in New Jersey and a lot of people tell me that moving coast to coast is really hard from the adaptation point of view, since there’s so many differences from one side of the country to the other, but I didn’t really notice a big change during this first move, except for the fact maybe that I had to leave most of my toys behind because mom said we had to pack the least stuff possible. We lived in Washington for 3 years and by the time I had learned my first museum lessons on the legislative branch and republicans and democrats my father was transferred to Ecuador. we once moved through Joshua tree national park.

I was eight then, and I thought I was going to live in the tallest tree in the whole rainforest.  I never imagined I would move to a real city with cars and buses and even malls.  The hardest thing about moving to Ecuador was leaving my friends behind. Although I was too small to have a real social life, I was very fond of my teammates. I used to practice baseball and was beginning to like it but I never found a baseball team in Ecuador. Moving to Ecuador was hard on me as a child, and I have never forgiven my parents for leaving our golden retriever behind. The cultural shock was intense too, I had never heard a word in Spanish and everything went great, until the moment we reached the door of our new home and the movers came in almost singing in a never before heard of magical language that sounded almost like chanting.  Since I never understood a word they said I thought it was great that we went to buy new stuff all over again, TV, kitchenware, furniture.  After a few weeks my mom told me that our move had been misplaced in storage at customs and they were holding it somewhere in a port in Ecuador. I think she didn’t really understand what they told her, so she just decided to buy everything new again.

Moving, packing and unpacking logistics were always set up by my mother.  Sometimes successfully and easily but mostly our moves ended in fighting with the moving companies because they had broken or misplaced some family jewel, cushion, mattress or anything that would eventually disappear.  Since mom was such a meticulous person she kept a written inventory of every moving box, every book, every piece of furniture that ever went into storage, a moving truck, a plane or a boat.

We tried to move during the summer always, but since we moved back and forth from northern to southern hemispheres, summer could be winter at destination or the other way around. So moving in the summer doesn’t always work out when you’re moving abroad.

The other very hard thing to deal with when you move abroad is learning the language of the country you’re moving to. Although I eventually learned Spanish, my communication skills the first year and a half developed basically a very primitive form of sign language, which some of my friends at school couldn’t really decipher and so they would either feel pity towards me and speak to me in English, or not speak to me at all and ignore my efforts.

As a kid who moved permanently I had a lot of trouble making friends, and by the time I had established a relatively close relationship with anyone, dad would get transferred and we would have to pack up and move once more.  By the time I was 16, I had moved about 7 times around the world, I had learned from cultures in the far east, France, North, south and central America, and I was completely alone in the world.  I had never had a real long-term friend.  I told my mother that as soon as I finished high school I would move back to New Jersey and settle down there for good.  But since we had moved so many times before and my schooling had been interrupted I still had 2 more years to go.  I finished high school in Bogotá, Colombia. It was a huge city compared to those in South America I had lived in before.  I had a Colombian girlfriend and she was moving to South Carolina to study at USC School of law, she wanted to mayor in international relations. I was ok with it, since we were both moving back to the States, I’d be close to her, at least in the same country.  Although I never saw her again, we arranged a double international move in one.  We would pack our things as one, put them in the same container, ship them over to America and then I would have a long distance moving company pick up my stuff in southern Carolina and deliver it in Jersey where I figured I would magically find a place to live as soon as I moved back there.  It didn’t really happen the way I expected.  We hired a Colombian courier and they assured us that the same company would receive our stuff in Florida and ship it in a fully equipped and insured truck to USC where she would be waiting.  The moving company we hired carefully packed our few belongings and signed us off on loads of insurance paperwork with the promise wed be seeing our stuff by the end of 2 weeks.  That was the last time I saw many of the souvenirs I had picked up from the many countries I had visited over the years.

We left on our graduation presents to Miami where we spent two incredible summer weeks as a couple of teenagers in love free of parents and responsibilities, for the first time in our lives, and by the due date for the move to reach USC, we were spending our third week as a couple who were about to kill each other over the ownership of the plastic cup we had brought from Señor. Froggs.  Since our move never got there, and the company in Colombia never answered for it, we ended up splitting up, and I moved with my backpack and my dreams back to Jersey where I set up a travel agency for travelers and excursionists.

The most important lesson I learned from moving abroad was that aside from the language, food, clothing, or religious differences in the world there is only one human race and it does business in the same way everywhere.  Particularly the moving business is the same in the whole wide world.  If you pay what your move is worth, you’ll get your move, if you try to cheat the movers, they will cheat you first, and if you move as little as possible you’ll loose less. That’s why I never grew attached to things, and that’s why I thank my mom for leaving my toys behind on that first move. also moved the annoying beach-bum. Beach Vacations are fun during moving too. Island Escapes

Fortunately I never married the woman I lived with, because I had to move out twice in one year.  It doesn’t really matter if you pay the bills, or the mortgage, it will always be her house.  And she kicked me out not once but two times.  Maybe she’s like that because I came back to her, so she took advantage of it, but the truth is that I’m tired of moving furniture around.

Dating Scene can be really difficult out there , I know very few people that are looking forward to go “out there” again so I was not that happy to leave , But I felt like I have no choice.

The first time we got in a fight we had just moved in together and we were coming home from Ikea. I had spent about 2000 dollars on girlish furniture for our apartment that I didn’t even like in the first place. We’d been at it for days until she finally saw what she wanted and made up her mind to get it. I was pretty tired that day and didn’t want to talk, but she began to go on about how we would arrange our furniture and how we had to be home for delivery and how everything had to be perfectly arranged. I didn’t say anything and just let her ramble about how it was such a good idea that we had picked everything together. Suddenly, the bomb came off: Why aren’t you speaking? Don’t you care?

I told her I was happy she had chosen things she liked. It was as if I had stepped on her corns. She got angry as I had never seen her before.   After she screamed at me all the way home, she stopped and didn’t talk to me for the rest of the evening and night.  The next day, I went to work early. I thought she had forgotten the subject.

About at noon, I got a call from the moving company.  The movers wanted to know where to deliver my stuff.  I was confused and told them there had been a mistake and I was not moving, I thought it was the delivery people from Ikea, so I gave them my home address.  They called back after a few minutes telling me that address was the pick up address, not the delivery address.

This is when I began to worry. I called home and she said she had hired a moving company to take all my things away because since I didn’t care about our apartment, I wouldn’t care either about moving out of it. Just a little wrong, she was. I called a friend and asked him if I could crash for a few days at his place and drop my stuff at his storage room. So I spoke to the movers and they delivered my stuff at his place on that afternoon. I almost lost my job because of this joke.

When I got to my friend’s house to receive my move, the movers delivered my clothes, a couch, and a plasma TV. I had nothing to place in storage. So I had stayed at my friend’s house for about a week when she called me. We started meeting again, and again, and again, and before the end of the month I was back at our place, good as new, happier than ever.

Our place was turning into a peaceful home; we even got a dog, when she lost it again about 3 months ago.  She began to complain about the dog not going out to walk enough. She wanted the dog in the first place and I was the one taking him out every evening, and picking up after him. This time we got in a fight about the dog and how he was getting fat and hairy all over the place.

This time she didn’t have to kick me out, as soon as I heard her speak like that, I flashed myself into the future and imagined us with a child. I couldn’t bear the site. So I called the movers myself. They came the next morning. Luckily for me it was not a very strong moving season so they had moving availability the next day.  I took everything.  I had them pack even the toilet paper.  I told the movers to leave all of her stuff but to take everything I had paid for.  Since I hadn’t had time to rent an apartment, I took all that stuff into storage.  They had my move delivered to a warehouse where I had full access anytime.

A few weeks later I was moving to my new bachelor’s apartment. The same movers again helped me with this move from the storage to the apartment.  They were very helpful and even nice to me, as they cheered me up and encouraged me to keep on with my life, (since they had witnessed the whole break up and all).

Today I feel a lot better.  Next time I fall in love I will be looking out for beware signs before I move in with someone. I like living alone, not having to worry about when I’m going to be moved out of my house, or how much extra I have to pay for last minute moves into storage. I feel just fine like this.