16 Things You’ve Always Hated About Moving… But Always Keep Forgetting

Whether we are consciously aware of it or not, moving is clearly a living nightmare. How do we keep forgetting this?

1. Realizing how much crap you have

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Clearly none of realize how much stuff we actually hoard in our homes. The day of reckoning comes when all of it has to be put in boxes and loaded onto the truck.

2. Cleaning. and cleaning. and cleaning.

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It sucks. Every single nook and cranny must be cleaned and your place must look far more spotless than is reasonable.

3. Money comes out of your pocket kinda like this:

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The long list of bills associated with moving drains your bank account like no other. What's the worst about it is so many of these costs are completely unexpected or just come with bad luck on your part.

Classic example: you don't get the u-Haul back in time.

4. You break everything in your house

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How many ways can you mess up your old home before you leave it?

You can scratch the walls, break doors, break glass, dent floors, tear carpet, bump cabinets, stain floors, ruin grass, crush flowers... (list goes on)

How many ways can you mess up your new home before you even settle in?

5. Through the entire experience, your wife be like:

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For 1-2 weeks prior to the move, she's stressed about getting ready for the move. For the entire day during the move, she's irritated by everything. Allow 1-3 weeks for adequate cool-down.

Flowers, chocolate, cupcakes, and shopping trips are great ways to combat this.

Heaven forbid she hits her time of the month during the move.

6. Your husband struggles at all times to make himself useful

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There has to be 3000 things still on the to do list and your husband gets distracted by everything and nothing. He falls asleep. He zones out, making the whole experience a rough ride.

Adequate amounts of delicious food really help reverse this behavior.

7. You called up your "bros" for help, this is about all you get out of them:

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Ab.so.lute.ly. Use.less.

They can't quit goofing off. It's almost like when you called them up and said: "can you help moving?", they really heard: "come to my place and party?".

8. Then you try to pay someone to do it, and they do this:

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How do you guys stay in business again? And can I have my money back?

9. The truck you rented doesn't have enough room in it...

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Let's all pause and admire how these two men managed to get a freakin' hot tub mounted on the back of their truck...

Seriously, you try to cut costs by getting the smaller truck. Then you bring it home and 25% of your junk doesn't fit. It's THE worst.

10. Your pet poops in the car on the way to the new place

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We love you puppy. But you don't handle road trips too well. Now the car smells like feces. And it will probably smell like that for a very. long. time.

11. Crushing, smashing various body parts

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12. All of your stuff breaks while hauling it

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Open up the truck aaaannddd... everything is all over the truck. Multiple things are probably broken. Looks like your driving was not conducive to hauling cargo. Your packing probably wasn't either.

13. You always, always forget something

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Wallet. Phone charger. Keys to the new house. You name it. You can always count on forgetting something, or multiple things while moving to your new place.

14. Three months later you still can't find anything...

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Why couldn't Frozone find his super suit? He just moved in 2 months and 4 days ago to that fancy apartment.

Basically plan on not finding things until 5 years down the road, or maybe never.

You may be able to cope with this better if you imagine some homeless person in need enjoying whatever it is you lost.

15. The piano nightmare:

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Ever tried moving one of these things? It's basically impossible.

16. Come 7:00 PM, you are like this:

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After a day of moving, or even a few days of moving, you are completely exhausted and have 0 energy.

What are you doing tonight? Sleeping for 13 hours straight.

That's why we hate moving.

...Last Word

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