My Fingers Hurt

So in the middle of the big move, Weed calls me, and makes some off-hand comment about how my fingers will hurt by the end of the day.

Weed, how right you were. I can barely type, much less open and close my hands into a balled fist. My forearms are gone as well.

10 hours of moving boxes, and we’ve only just begun!

Sammy G

So in the middle of the big move, Weed calls me, and makes some off-hand comment about how my fingers will hurt by the end of the day.

Weed, how right you were. I can barely type, much less open and close my hands into a balled fist. My forearms are gone as well.

10 hours of moving boxes, and we’ve only just begun!

Sammy G

9 thoughts on “My Fingers Hurt”

    1. Update

      Moving in Minneapolis to a house! I’m finally a home-owner.

      Update — been in the house for 8 hours now and nothing has broken so far. Have yet to make my first trip to Home Depot…

      Get In Groove, Sammy G

      1. Ha!

        My brother is there right now working for MedTronics.

        Cool. he says its grand.

  2. After the move…

    So after you move, in you’ll unpack the essentials. Toothbrush, TV, Korg, UMBC Ice Hockey Championship t-shirt … but there will be boxes you think, “That can wait until later.”

    And when you go to move again, there those boxes will be, still unpacked. At that point, whatever is in those boxes should be disposed of immediately! Otherwise, you get packrat-itis, and every house you move to from then on will need to have a big basement/attic/storage area for the accumulated junk you will be towing.

    Asi I said earlier, Home Depot is currently having a no-interest for 6 months on purchases of $399 or more. Plan your projects, get a list if materials, then wait for the no-interest promotions. Do Lowes too, Lowes does some things better than Home Depot and vice versa. You first purchases should be good tools. A cordless drill is a must, as are screwdrivers and a good socket set. Learn to spackle too 🙂

    And remember about “initiating” the rooms! My $.02 Weed

    EDIT by matthew: Fixed a couple tpyos.

    1. Funny experience with that…

      We had been in the same boat. Six years after moving in, there were still boxes we still hadn’t unpacked. We went through some of them, and found some stuff that was valuable to us (old letters, for instance), but by and large it was clothing that didn’t fit, memorabilia that didn’t matter to us anymore, books we didn’t care to read, and that kind of stuff.

      Me, I’d say go through that stuff with the intention of giving it away. We’ve done a ton of trips to the local charity to give them our old stuff we don’t need anymore, with very little ending up on our shelves again. I’m conflicted, though; I have a bunch of letters from old friends (and, erm, old girlfriends) in the garage in boxes. I keep thinking, “Well, when I die, my kids and grandkids might want to read those”…

      But writing this out helped me reach a decision. No need to keep ’em. If it’s not important to me, it’s probably not going to be that important to my kids. Guess that’s a reason I keep a blog; they can look at this place after I’m gone.

      Now time to go buy that fifty-year domain ownership package, and pay fifty years of server costs in advance…

      —
      Matthew P. Barnson

      1. ten hours plus of moving boxes? YUCK

        This is where the phrase, “Three moves is as good as a fire” came from. After moving all that stuff, the next time you move you won’t want to take much. In fact, if we decide to move back east, we’ll be doing a second round of dejunking. I refuse to pack it up and have to unpack it or store it AGAIN. In the meantime, enjoy your new house!–

        Christy

        1. We already threw everything out

          Good thing is that Shani and I are only interested in keeping items that have useful value at least once every six months. Old papers, nostalgia items, duplicates, non-essentials, and decorative stuff all got tossed. I threw out half my belongings before loading up the moving truck. I hate excess crap.

          Get In Groove, Sammy G

          1. purge

            We did the same thing. It’s amazing how much stuff you can get rid of when you change your priorities.

            Of course, we hired an actual moving company. No way am I carrying that piano anywhere.

            — Ben Schuman Mad, Mad Tenor

  3. well now your back is going t

    well now your back is going to hurt gradma cause you just pulled landscaping duty … anyone elses figers hurt?

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