Moving suggestions?

8 thoughts on “Moving suggestions?”

1. Moving

   Label your boxes. I moved into my first home two years ago. The best thing I did was label my boxes. In other words….kitchen, living room, Genna’s room, bathroom, etc. So when you take the boxes off the truck you know which room to dump them until you are ready to tackle them.

2. Home Warranty

   In addition to homeowners insurance, I would fork over the 4 or 5 hundred a year to secure a home warranty. This basically covers (after a 100 buck deductible) all the plumbing, heating, washing, refrigeration, systems.. and often damage as a result of their failures.

   I’ve already used mine… and conceivably, it could save thousands.

3. ownership

   Be careful not to bang the furniture into the walls, the walls are yours now 🙂

   Seriously though, buy good tools and keep them handy. Keeping your home in good repair is a lot easier than you might think and can be quite rewarding. Tools are a great investment, never hesitate to spend the money required to get good ones.

4. Moving ideas….

   We have moved many times, and the last move was into the first house for us to own.

   If you are moving yourself which it sounds like you are, then i would:

   1. put something over the high traffic paths for the move in. This will help keep the carpets clean and hardwoods in better shape.

   2. Labeling boxes is good. Not only do we put rooms on the box, but we put a generic listing of what’s in the box. i.e. not just living room, but living room – dvd’s. or something like that.

   3. Don’t overpack the boxes. if you make them too heavy, you’ll end up regreting it in the long run.

   4. I would recommend not packing the truck and unloading all in the same day. (depending on how much stuff you have.) We tried it once, and it ended up taking 2 days anyway, and made us just miserable.

   5. Set up a filing system for just house hold stuff. This way you can keep track of warranty papers, your sale papers, repairs/maintenance/upgrades that are done to the house.

   Best of luck. be sure to let us know how things go.

   Jon

   1. Harper’s Ferry

      K, now find me a nice house for under $200K in Harper’s Ferry, plzthxu.

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

5. Congratulations!

   Owning your home is exciting. My two cents is get rid of as much as you can so it doesn’t have to be packed and unpacked. Keep only the essentials and either have a yard sale or donate the rest. Otherwise you may end up with boxes that never get unpacked. They sit in your new garage for 6 years and then when you look in them to move them out of the way you end up asking yourself, “Why have I been storing this junk all these years?” Then again, since you’ve moved 11 times in the last several years, you might not have anything extra sitting around. They say 3 moves is as good as a fire.–

   Christy

6. My tips for good homewonership

   1) Pay the mortgage. This will ensure you enjoy the house for at least 15-30 years

   2) Be sure you and Shaney “initiate” each room. This will give you fond memories of each room and also allow you to embarass the bejesus out of your kids later on by telling stories about it.

   3) If you have a yard, mow. The neighbors will love you for it, and you may not really like some of the critters that take to high grass.

   4) As a male, you may feel that once you move the boxes in and unpack, then the house is ready and your work is done. Oh no no, you work is just starting! The female of the house will need to leave her mark upong each room (and even though you may feel that step #2 would have accomplished this, you are apparently not female and therefore worthy of a disgusted look from the female). This means painting, perhaps new flooring, window treatments (i.e. blinds or curtains), new furniture, repeated furniture rearrangement, knick-knacks, pictures, candles, sconces (fancy candles), and other XX-chromosome-induced implements of territory-marking. Why this is more important than SportsCenter will always remain beyond you, but in the interest of household harmony, you better get off the couch and help her.

   5) Because of #4, you’ll need TiVo to see the end of any game 7s. TiVo is a must.

   6) As a homeowner, things in your house will invariably break. Then you will call a repairman to come fix them. The repairman will spend some time at your house, then present you with a bill that seems like he serviced your house and now wishes to bend you over and service you. Then you’ll realize the need to learn to fix things in your house yourself. Plumbing, drywall, electric, they’re all pretty easy once you understand how they work. Electric is tricky due to that whole voltage/ampere/electro-shock thingy, but always remember to shut off the main and never connect power to ground and you’ll be okay. You mastered music theory, economics, and the art of the slapshot…you can fix a toilet.

   7) #6 will require you to buy tools. Buy tools with lifetime warranties. Pay the extra money and get the good ones. Always have the right tools for the job (if it’s too expensive to buy, rent it. The right tools make a job go so much easier.)

   8) Bagless vacuums rock. My wife tells me so.

   9) Bring home unexpected flowers to celebrate the new house. This also helps grease the skids to getting #2 rolling as well. A bottle of wine helps too.

   My $.02 Weed

7. good advice

   OK, the first thing you want to do is get a buddy to punch you in the face. Hard.

   After that, nothing else in the process will seem all that bad.

   — Ben Schuman Mad, Mad Tenor

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