This is the last time I move. I swear. After 10 days of packing up boxes and lugging them around and living in the stacks of boxes everywhere...

I started the garage last weekend. Still working on it. That's where the ammo and reloading stuff is stored. I can't believe how much I have accumulated over the decades. I have boxes and boxes of...everything. I'm finding things I forgot I had...things I didn't know I had...and things I don't recall buying. I've lost count of how many AR magazines I've come across. I found 2500 rounds of 7.62x39 sealed in heavy plastic. Where the hell did THAT come from? I never realized what a hoarder I am.

I brought home 40 copy paper boxes I saved up at work in preparation for the move. I filled them all with ammo. They weren't enough. They are all gone and I still have ammo left on the shelf. The boxes are so heavy I can hardly lift them. The stockpile of bullets for reloading is worse. They are so heavy I have to scrounge for smaller boxes because a big one filled up couldn't be lifted by human strength. Not my strength, anyway.

I'm exhausted and feel like somebody worked me over with a baseball bat. I'm too old for this.

We take possession in two weeks. I will start ferrying loads in my little truck and then on 2/13 the movers we hired will take the bulk.

Then we get to unpack everything...

Give me strength.

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The last time I moved I took 14 truckloads to the dump that's 30years of hoarding. I may need that someday. I saved everything. I'm about to purge the new place I been here 8 years.

I'm too lazy to be a hoarder.

But I save equipment parts, ect.

You want to watch the movers don't move some of your things into their own storage.
Yes moving is a pita and you sure have a problem if moving into a smaller house. Time for a garage sale before the movers come if weather permits.

This is why I intend to die where I am. The only heavy thing getting moved out of my house is me, and after handling affairs for my parents estate, I intend to find the relative I like the least and make them the executor.

I hear you.

As Americans we have a national disease of hoarding. I'm constantly looking at my piles of stuff and wondering why I feel it necessary to keep this stuff. I'm actively working on reducing it.

One day I will get a handle on my excessive buying of stuff I don't need. That day is not today, but soon. No really, soon.

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Well, you could sell the ammo and components and pay off the new house.

Moving does stink, they will be carrying me out of here feet first.

I feel your pain, In the past we moved many times. I could not imagine moving today. As you say the garage alone would take a month!

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Still Running Against the Wind

I'm totally sympathetic. I last moved 29 years ago when I was reasonably young and in pretty good shape. With the last load, I was driving down a road with a 45 mph speed limit, and I couldn't make the car go that fast because I didn't have the strength to push the gas pedal far enough. Mrs. swsig and I vowed never to move again, and we haven't.

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Just went through it. Got married combined two full houses into one new one. Third garage space pacekd to rafters. I lived in last house 23 years it was amazing the amount of stuff that came out of it. Goodwill got a bonanza. My Kids get to empty this house after I take the dirt nap.

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Jim
Many K and N Frames

If I am lucky one for move and that is in about 5 years. Lord wiling going to retire and move to where it is warm (FL). It is a pain right in the butt and I feel your pain. Good luck.

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SP: Sounds like you need to shoot more!

I know what you are going through. I never want to move again!

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My friends husband who was an Air Force lifer and moved often, kept all his firearms accessories on a row of pallets. The movers just wrapped it and rolled it into the truck.

I don't have the problem of finding things I don't remember... yet! My problem is thinking I have something and forgetting where I stored it. But that is not really related to moving. It's just age-induced forgetfulness, or something like that - maybe plain old lack of organization.

As far as the moving bit goes, Chuck24 and I are firmly in the same camp.

Good luck with the move and the unpacking. I hope you enjoy your new home.

In the Army Transportation Control school, they told us that for damage, loss and just screwing up your life, three good moves is equal to one good fire.
We last moved about 9 years ago. Some boxes I haven't gotten around to opening, they are out in the storage shed. I realize that if I haven't needed it for 9 years, I must not need it at all, but I packed 'em and moved 'em, so there must be SOMETHING good in there that I will find when I get around to going through the boxes!
Repeat after me . . . I am not a horder, I am not. . .

just keep telling yourself that the move is worth all the efforts.

I'm getting ready to move in the next few weeks for a new job and definitely not looking forward to it. Hoping this will be the long term position it seems to be. From there I'm hoping my next move will be to my own property, and house.

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John 14:6, Luke 21:11

Until my late 30s I regularly moved with my career to different parts of the country. I lived light. It was a good way to live. Now I've been under the same roof for 20 years and accumulating stuff accordingly.

I used to think that "stuff" enhanced life. I've found that it's better defined as a millstone around the neck.

in previous house moves..............when i came across something i had not seen/used in years.............it was curbside by morning.......

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I am 63 and have lived at only three addresses except for my army years. Twenty seven years at the last address. We had a huge basement there with plenty of storage and when we moved in 2005 it was to a house with only 200 sf less but a finished basement so no storage room. I found out the hard way that the book collection I have has dwindled in value because so much is on the net that people do not buy books like they once did for reference. Hindsight I should have cashed out the books in the 90s and bought N frame revolvers.

We were moved out of our house after a fire and after everything was fixed they came in and stacked boxes to the ceiling. I decided that for every box I kept one was going to the dump. It was so much fun throwing stuff out that I moved on to the garage and by the end had taken 30 van loads to the dump.

DO NOT, NEVER tell anybody that you cleaned out the garage, not even your spouse. First they decided to move my MIL stuff in there now that she's in a home. Then my wife had some large wooden Christmas decorations for her workplace and decided that they could store them in my garage 11 months out of the year.

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It's been said: Home is where you keep your stuff while you're out getting more stuff!

David

On a positive note, it does sound as though you have a pretty good supply of ammo............

See....you are a prepper and didn't even know it !

Upon putting our house on the market in 2009, my 'gun room' where all my loading stuff, etc. was, had to be 'sanitized' and made into an 'office' for prospective lookers and buyers.
ALL the hardware and loading stuff had to be put into storage. House did not sell until 2012.
Have since moved, but are renting a small place, hoping to build.
It will be like Christmas once I ever get to unpack and set back up.
I'm sure there is stuff I've long forgotten.

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I do not even want to look at my book collection (>4000) and my wife has around a 1000. Almost all of mine are military-related reference works (all branches, Europe, UK and US) and my wife is a Jane Austen "fanatic". Front end loaders are the only way!! Dave_n

A thinking man like you will enjoy Marie Kondo's book "The life-changing magic of tiding up: The Japanese art of Decluttering and Organizing." Check it out on Amazon.

Just went over to Amazon and ordered a copy for my wife... I'll see how that works out.

I gotta second the "I cleaned out the garage" shortly after finishing this monumental task my wife (God Bless Her) and her neice moved about 40 of those big rubbermaid storage tubs back into the garage. Talk about blowing a gasket. About a year later I started cleaning the garage again. All those tubs went into the sun room with dire warnings to whoever put one back in the garage. Filled two of those really big trash cans for the automated garbage trucks. And those tubs in the sun room are still where they were put two years later. My wife really hate it when I mention I will be cleaning up. As she knows anything I can't identify WILL go in the trash. Three exercise machines sitting in the same place for the last 5 years. One of these days though. Frank

I've made only three moves in my life. My last move I vowed to give each box that went unopened for two years the heave ho. It's been 26 years now and though I've sorted and condenced them I'm still shuffling most of them around in my garage.

It doesn't help that I'm a collector of smalls and other oddities mostly valuable to only me. I have discovered on line sales and hold out hope that in my retirement I'll whittle down my accumulation. (The picture is a shoot of my "police smalls." I know, I need help.)

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"Is this something you would sell?"

I guess I won't have to explain the problem to you.

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Man I know what you mean! I moved to where I am now twelve years ago. Unless something really major happens here is where I plan to die.

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