O' CRUD moving after 47 years

[Freightman]

We are moving close to the kids after 47 years in the same house. I am finding stuff I thought I threw away 30 years ago. breaking down all the loading presses and packing them up and allthe dies and haven't started on the lead yet. :veryconfu[smilie=b:

[bpatterson84]

That sounds particularly awful, the thing nightmares are made of! Best of luck with the next few days!

[CraigOK]

Awful was the first thing that came to my head also. Good luck.

[FredBuddy]

In that time, we moved 8 times.

One end of the country to the other.

Rotsa ruck!

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

in my younger days (as an adult), I moved every 3 or 4 years. I come from a family with packratitous. Moving was good therapy. Now I've been in the house I'm currently in, since '93. I dread the thought of moving (or selling) 24+ years of accumulated stuff, so I feel your pain...and I recommend you sell as much as you can.
good Luck

[brass410]

from my own experience. you are embarking on the greatest scavenger hunt ever!!! the best part is there is no list to follow it's all finds! LOL best wishes for the move.

[Freightman]

In 78 years I have moved 6 times since I have been married 57 years I have moved only once so this is an experience. Since I am a gatherer and a horder it will be hard to throw away stuff I might in fifty years need.:-?

[skeettx]

Frank!!!
WOW!!
Staying in town or moving out of town??
Mike

[bedbugbilly]

My wife and I just went through the same thing - moved from the house on the farm we lived in for 42 years in to town into a condo. We'd been planning on moving for ten years but life sort of got in the way and then the last eight years was not a good time to sell real estate. We had weeded things out somewhat but I had a shop full that i had to dispose of - fortunately was able to sell most of my tools and what I didn't sell I gave to young folks who could use them.

I'm a collector and accumulator as well! :-) We're pretty well settled in the condo now but are still going through "totes" of things that "maybe we ought to save until we see whee we land". Since we spend the winters in AZ, I'm setting up my work and reloading area in the garage of the condo where I can work and look out the open garage door to enjoy the nice days here. In packing up my gun/reloading things, I began to realize just how much brass I had accumulated - you know - there is never enough and you don't want to run out or run short if there is a "shortage" of things - discovered I had accumulated dies, etc. for cartridges I don't reload but "might" - you know how that goes. I ordered a heavy steel legged workbench which seems to have been lost in transit so that is a delay - decided I had better inventory my molds and that was a mistake too - didn't realize how many I had actually accumulated so they will be getting weeded out sometime in the future.

Nope Freightman . . . it isn't easy making a move but we all seem to survive it if we look at it with a sense of humor. Hard to leave the old home for a new one but at my age, I long ago discovered that a house is just a house and a home is where you plant your feet with the wife whose been your love and best friend for many many years. And, you soon discover that "less is more".

Good luck with your move - you'll do just fine and pretty soon will be all settled in and you'll look back and wonder how you survived the move! LOL

[ghh3rd]

Hmmm... if that lead is just too much to move, I can take a drive from FL and clean it out for you :coffee:

I had to move to an apartment and put all of non essential 'stuff' in storage. I had six shelving units in my garage, each that holds 32 printer paper boxes full of stuff... lots of tools, lots of reloading stuff (where did all of this stuff come from?), Christmas and holidays stuff, camping stuff, many many boxes of pictures (wife's stuff), all kinds of stuff.

Well I got tired of having to drive six miles to not be able to find what I wanted while paying exhorbitant storage fees in a hot storage unit with dim lighting, so I moved all of those shelves in with me, and I've got to go through all of my stuff and get rid of a bunch of it. It seems that the more I thin it out, the more it looks the same.

Good luck with all of your stuff. :-)

ps - the outboard motor and tree stand in the corner of my living room make great conversation pieces.

[Plate plinker]

Ibuprofen is your friend take it before you hurt.

[rancher1913]

My house has been in the family since 1913, I have four generations of accumulation, only way I could move would be to have a 3 day auction

[Duckiller]

Had a neighbor move after 30+/- yrs. After he and his wife spent 3 hard weeks of packing his advice was hire some one to pack and move you. Good luck on your move.

[Crash_Corrigan]

Last year I moved from a tin trailer home of about 650 SQ Feet into a 2 bdr 2 bath rental home here in Las Vegas. It was July and hotter than blazes but it was a dry heat. Sure. I have a decent sized cargo trailer of 5' x 8' and I loaded it about 10 times and dragged most of my loose stuff to the new location by working only during the night and early morning. I had thrown out or given away a large amount of useless and obsolete goods earlier and I left a lot of trash behind in the trailer as it was to be demolished and removed from the park after I left. Then the movers came and moved the big stuff and did it all in about 5 hours.

As I suffer from COPD my stamina is a joke. I can work for about 10 mins and then I needed another 10 mins to rest, rehydrate and take some oxygen via a tube and mask. One evening during a break period somewhere between 0030 and 0430 some thief or thieves ransacked my trailer and garage of over $10 K in presses and reloading gear including a beloved old 3 screw Ruger Flattop Blackhawk in pristine condition. I will never be able to replace that weapon. I am still going around and around with the insurance company on that claim.

At the end of it all I am very happy in the new digs but I am still culling through and dumping items that are not needed, defective, obsolete or loved anymore. It is tough but necessary as I will not again have to go through such a terrible experience of moving and packing, unpacking, sorting and finding a good place for my belongings again for stuff that has no value to me.

All I can say is to be relentless and cull out belongings, have a few garage sales and when you still have stuff left over take it to Goodwill or the ST. Vincent DePaul folks as they can sell it and it will not go to waste. You get a tax deduction and they get free goods. A win win situation.

[nvbirdman]

When you find stuff just remember, you may not have used it in the last fifty years but there's a good chance you'll need it next week.:kidding:

[HATCH]

Moving sucks.
I moved 7k + of gear and 5k pounds of lead.
We paid 3 men and a truck to move household gear

I paid the teenager next door to unload a trailer load. 4500 lbs. she did it in 3 hours.
Best $30 I ever spent.

[Petrol & Powder]

Moving sucks!

But, it is a good time to purge the junk we all accumulate. If you haven't used it in years, you clearly do NOT need it. If you find something and think it is sentimental, ask yourself if you even knew you still had it? Chances are it is only sentimental because you just rediscovered it.

The things we tend to think are valuable artifacts are often just touchstones to our past. Sometimes those touchstones are important and should be maintained but sometimes they are just kitsch that we need to let go of.

Some things are not worth moving. 40 year old pressboard furniture that was cheap 40 years ago should never be moved. It is weak, heavy and nearly valueless. Leave it.
Clothes that don't fit. Really? you're going move something only to throw it away at the other end of the journey? Give it to charity or toss it out; don't move it.
Consumables, this one is bizarre. If you know you are moving, start using up everything you can. I've seen people move massive amounts of food, paper products, soap and other consumable items. Stop buying that stuff !

Moving isn't fun but it can be incredibly liberating.

[shoot-n-lead]

I have always heard..." Three moves are as good as a fire" for thinning things out...I believe it.

[DerekP Houston]

When you find stuff just remember, you may not have used it in the last fifty years but there's a good chance you'll need it next week.:kidding:

lmao you beat me to it. Never fails as soon as I junk something I find out what I needed it for....

Best of luck with the move, we are going piece meal here, a load or 2 each until we make a dent then will hire movers for the safe and furniture.

[xs11jack]

I have this vision floating thru my head, you are digging something out a box in the new place and you hollar "Hon do you know there the other half of this wizbang I bought 29 years ago at the yard sale????" And a good number of times she just might surprise you and say "That box you are sitting on, it's in there." I have had that happen a number of times, sorta scares me a little.
Ole Jack

[big bore 99]

Kinda fun finding all those 'new' forgotten toys.

[lightman]

Moving sucks, theres just no other word for it.

[MaryB]

I used to be able to move in 3 pickup loads... and moved about every 3 years as rentals were sold out from under me. Then I bought this house in 1995... 2 years ago I looked at all the "stuff" I had laying around and decided it was house cleaning time. Tossed a lot of electronic junk(I repaired electronics) that I have not missed! Now I don't have piles of stuff all over in the way!

[Bzcraig]

And I was stressed moving after 23 years!

[Grmps]

If you sell everything you haven't needed in years then you have some money to buy what you might need and a lot less stuff to deal with.

[benellinut]

Ibuprofen is your friend take it before you hurt.

Vicodin works better, the big dose, 10/325's, at bed time it's one 30mg morphine time released, I sleep a lot better but sometimes even the morphine won't kill the spine pain. It sucks getting old.

[woodbutcher]

[smilie=b:You`re right.Moving sucks.Big time.Best of luck to ya in the new digs.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo

[mold maker]

My parents lived through the depression and taught me to hoard. They had lived in the same place for 65 years, and the place was full. I had also accumulated a forty-eight-year collection of precious junk. After their passing, I decided to move back home. Although only a two-block move, combining their stuff with mine was a disaster. I'm still moving, and it's been 6 years. My junk is easy to throw out, but knowing Mom and Dad considered it a treasure makes it hard.
Sometimes I think good insurance and a fire would be a blessing. At least then the decision of value would be in someone else's hands.
You fellows are adding many miles to the equation so I really feel for ya.

[TexasGrunt]

Vicodin works better, the big dose, 10/325's, at bed time it's one 30mg morphine time released, I sleep a lot better but sometimes even the morphine won't kill the spine pain. It sucks getting old.

You're not taking enough! :roll:

My daily maintenance dose is 45 mg of morphine SR twice a day, 500 mg of naproxen twice a day, 300 mg of gabapentin 3x a day, Vicodin for breakthrough, as well as a couple of supplements I've found that REALLY help with the joint pain.

[benellinut]

Freightman, (fitting name for moving LoL) Good luck with the move, I've been hauling loads to the dump this year to get rid of some of the 30 years of "stuff", still have boxes from when we moved here and never opened. I can not imagine having to move, yikes!



You're not taking enough! :roll:

My daily maintenance dose is 45 mg of morphine SR twice a day, 500 mg of naproxen twice a day, 300 mg of gabapentin 3x a day, Vicodin for breakthrough, as well as a couple of supplements I've found that REALLY help with the joint pain.

Good Lord! I'm taking all I can tolerate and still function, the morphine makes me very sleepy, a lump on a log, I can't take it during the day. I have to take care of this old house myself and work through it. I plan out a days worth of jobs that need to be done and hit it, then days of rest recouping. I can't see any sense in doing one job and taking a couple days to recoup, I may as well bang out as many as I can take in one shot and get it done. I have to keep moving and my mind on the tasks, once I stop and sit down the pain hits me and I'm done.

[MaryB]

Listen to your body, when you sense pain level increasing take a break for 2-3 hours! I split big projects up that way. Work hard an hour or two, my back starts complaining I go do something where I can sit with good back support for 2-3 hours. I take 2 oxycontin(can take 3 but one is middle of the night if my back is keeping me awake) a day and up to 6 percocet for breakthrough pain. Lyrica twice a day too for nerve pain.

Back pain is something way to many people think is fake, they have no clue how badly it can impact a persons life.

[mold maker]

Just because I'm stubborn and not because I'm tough, I only take pain meds when there is no alternative. I have several scripts for heavy pain meds that were never filled.
Aug 2nd I'm to have the rotor rooter and stints procedure on my left leg and in 2 weeks the right. Doc says the weakness and pain are from lack of blood flow.
I think it's mostly from deteriorated discs, but I ain't no Doc.
I store all my loaded ammo, casting equipment, and supplies in a 4' tall crawl space, and this morning I tried to retrieve some brass from the back end. I got almost half way and my legs gave way. The pain made it hard to even crawl out. I'll have to spend the rest of the day prone.
Getting old with worn out joints ain't for sissies.

[benellinut]

Getting old with worn out joints ain't for sissies.

Amen! When I was young a older gentleman once told me, "I'm a young man trapped in an old man's body" now I know just what he meant.

[popper]

hard to throw away stuff I might in fifty years need :roll: NO, just take the stuff you want or need, leave the rest for the vultures (or yard sale?). Folks moved down here from the house they built in 47. I about cried when we had to leave all the shop tools in the basement but - I didn't have a place for it. Folks just took clothes, some mementos, a couple chairs they liked, Dads HiFi/stereo and Mom's 2 organs and left everything else for the buyer. Got the price they wanted too.
Dad is gone now, Mom is in an assisted living home - visited yesterday - her memory is about gone now. Her oldest came in from Az couple weeks ago and she perked up pretty good.

[smokeywolf]

Looking forward to moving out of Kali, but not looking forward to having to move 10 tons of machine shop equipment, tooling, antiques and other goodies; that's not counting lead.

[jmort]

Kinda fun finding all those 'new' forgotten toys.

That was the only good part. The best find were a pair of H2M .680" round ball molds that I forgot about.
3 moves in 18 months was below average.
I don't care if you are moving into a grand castle, moving blows. Never want to move again.

[benellinut]

:roll: NO, just take the stuff you want or need, leave the rest for the vultures (or yard sale?). Folks moved down here from the house they built in 47. I about cried when we had to leave all the shop tools in the basement but - I didn't have a place for it. Folks just took clothes, some mementos, a couple chairs they liked, Dads HiFi/stereo and Mom's 2 organs and left everything else for the buyer. Got the price they wanted too.
Dad is gone now, Mom is in an assisted living home - visited yesterday - her memory is about gone now. Her oldest came in from Az couple weeks ago and she perked up pretty good.

I'm sorry to hear about your Mom, we went through the same thing with our Mother. Dad had a brain tumor and was given a year, he told us kids we would have to keep and eye on Mom because she was forgetting things, less then a year after he passed Mom was found in her night clothes knocking on doors asking neighbors if they knew were her husband was, we had to put here in care, a year later it took her. It comforts me to know one day we'll all be rejoined and without the ill's of these bodies, until then I know they are both watching over us kids.

One thing I'll add, even though sometimes Mom forgot who we were and as terrible the fear must have been for her, she always had love in her heart and responded well to kindness no matter who she was with. She and a older gentlemen who had also lost much memory bonded in that home and were always sitting together, it really made us happy to know she found love even in the worst of times, I'm sure Dad would have approved.

[Handloader109]

We moved several times early in our married life but last time was into home in '93. Built 30x30 shop, accumulated a bunch of stuff. Moved up here in 2010. I moved it pickup and trailer by pickup and trailer over about a 6 month period. Then sold the home and then move the shop into my garage. Then after 5 years moved out here. This time we hired local mover that worked by the box and piece for my ww equipment. Cost us a couple of thousand, but my back is much better off. We still moved a lot, but only about a third of our stuff. Hire it done

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[Down South]

I feel sorry for you. Only moved a couple times in the past 45 yrs. I wound donating a lot of stuff the the new buyers.

[higgins]

A few years ago we moved after 34 years in a house. We donated a lot of stuff and I sold some of the bulkier items I didn't use anymore. I packed the reloading and other heavier man stuff in tomato boxes clearly labeled on both ends with what is in it. Sturdy boxes just the right size, have handle holes, you can stack them high, and they're free at grocery stores and restaurants. Banana boxes are good for the lighter items if you put a cardboard bottom over the hole in the bottom of them.

In our new house I tried to keep everything together that was together in the other house. Being able to associate something with another item will help locate it in the new place. I built an identical workbench at the new place and put several boxes of stuff in the same place on the shelves over the new workbench. I moved my storage shelves and cabinets so I could keep things pretty much together in the new place.

The moving experience convinced me to actively avoid obtaining even small items that may accumulate in my remaining years. I won't be getting any more components unless I use up what I have on hand. No more stockpiling for me.

[williamwaco]

In 78 years I have moved 6 times since I have been married 57 years I have moved only once so this is an experience. Since I am a gatherer and a horder it will be hard to throw away stuff I might in fifty years need.:-?


If you do, you will need it tomorrow.

[Down South]

I won't be getting any more components unless I use up what I have on hand. No more stockpiling for me.

LOL, same here. I can purchase what I need from a LGS for a good price and still stay ahead of stock piling. I keep a certain amount of powder and primers in stock but when I get to my limit, I buy more.

[bedbugbilly]

When we were starting to thin things out and pack things up over time in preparation to our move - we rented a storage unit for what we were keeping until we knew where we were going. Sort of "we'll keep it until we see if we need it and if not, then we'll dispose of it".

We packed almost everything we could in "totes"as it was handy to do so and the lids pretty much have a decent seal when put on. My wife came up with a system that worked well - each room in the house had a number. i.e. - everything in the kitchen was in the 100 range - tote 100, 101 102, etc. and we kept a three ring binder and listed in general what was in each tote. My reloading stuff was in the 900 boxes along with my collection of antique military items, etc. The totes were labeled on both ends with the number. It really helped when we started to empty the storage unit and move the totes to the new place. We knew which totes went to which room - kitchen, bedrooms, bathrooms, etc. It took a little extra effort to do it that way but it sure has saved a lot of time in "looking" for something. We moved the first of June and what totes we haven't gone through are in the condo basement and we bring them up one at a time and go through them - makes it easy to decide what is staying and what is going. Of course I'm getting ready to get my reloading area set up and my tells me that "I imagine ALL of it is staying" but we'll see. I figure it's a good time to get rid of what I'll never use but HAD to get either to a good bargain or being something that I "might" need. :-)

[Love Life]

I envy you, lol. I've uprooted and moves over 16 times in my life. Dad was career Army, and I've been active military since I graduated high school.


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[OS OK]

Our last move from a place we spent 20 years in was an experience...I am President of the Packratitus club...well, I got all enthusiastic about NOT packing all that extra stuff just to clutter up the new shop and barn...so...as you guessed, I called the junk man to haul off all the steel and such, we either donated to the Salvation Army or parked an item out on the country highway with a free sign on it.
It was a liberating feeling to shed all that clutter, BUT...I have chastised myself for that 'thinning of stuff I might need' many times since!

[shooterg]

We bought 80 acres of the old homeplace along with the OLD house I grew up again. Still toys in the attic from 1960 !
And I am NEVER moving again unless the wife divorces me and the judge kicks me out !

[crowbuster]

Hate me some movin. I find it interesting that more than a few of us are "collectors" as well.

[mold maker]

It surprised me, how many unopened boxes and blister packs I found among all the must-have treasures. I even found duplicates of some.

[bedbugbilly]

Love Life - it's because of people like you and your father that the rest of us have the right and privelidge to be able to move . . . or stay put in one place to enjoy life. Thank you for your service and know how much it is appreciated!

I had several friends that were "Army brats" and I'm sure it wasn't easy to make friends, get settled in to a school, etc. and then have to move but their exposure to "change" and different places also helped round out their character. Doesn't always work that way I know, but some went on to serve as their parent or parents did. May God bless all of you!