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Here are a few tips and tricks to make your moving endeavors a breeze!
PACKING
Heavy and Light: Think opposites are alike, heavy goes with light! Pack those heavier items into your smaller boxes and light items into your bigger boxes. No wasted weight!
Plates and Records: Don't make the mistake of #packing your precious plates and records flat and helpless. Instead, pack the on edge, vertically.
Most Important Amongst Shipping Supplies: Anything that is valuable, sentimental, or worthy enough to shed a tear if lost, stolen, or damaged, keep those bad boys right next to you in your vehicle. If they do happen to ride along with the other moving items, just make sure to put some extra cushion, like a blanket or sheets, in between.
No Screwed Bulbs: Prior to packing any lamps, make sure those bulbs are unscrewed and carefully packed separately.
Don't Let that Fridge Go Sour!: After thoroughly cleaning out and wiping down the refrigerated, keep the inside smelling nice and fresh by adding a handful of fresh coffee, baking soda, or charcoal into nylon stockings or socks. Place this deodorizer in the interior of the fridge for lasting freshness.
Protect your Plants: Take care of your plants during the move by keeping the foliage away from the windows, as this can scorch the leaves as they rest there.
TRACKING YOUR MOVE
Note Taking: Jot down your shipment registration number and keep it handy in the instance that you may need to call your mover over shipment inquiries.
Don't Toss that Phone Book: Keep your #phonebook as you may need to call residents and businesses from your former area of residents.
PREP THE FAMILY FOR THE BIG MOVE
Get the Kids Involved: In their rooms, the children can write the names and new address on cartons. This will familiarize them with their new street and city.
Relax the Pets: Have a trusted associate watch your pets during moving day. There's no need to have them around all of the hoopla.
MOVING DAY ADVICE
Let's have a great moving day by checking off these essentials!
Prepare the Bed: Place sheets and towels in a dresser draw to avoid frantically searching for them on your first night.
Give Your Number Out: Don't let the van foreman depart without giving your contact to him, along with an alternate phone number in case you are unable to be reached.
Basic Necessities: At your new home, you will most likely need a few basic items like toilet paper and other toiletries, telephone, snacks, coffee (and pot), soap, flashlight, screwdriver, pliers, can opener, paper plates, cups, utensils, a few pans, paper towels, and cleaning supplies. Box these items together. Ask your foreman to pack the items last for easy locating and access of them upon arrival.
Give the Computer a Rest: Let your computer get used to the "climate" of your new home before plugging it in.
Take Delight: Let the professionals do what they do best and as you relax. #Moving is associated with new adventures and friends along the way. Get some good shut-eye before the pickup and delivery days!
Plastic spacer for blocking the rear dropouts so that they wont get compressed together in shipping. You can usually get these for free from bike shops that sell new bikes. Most new bikes come shipped with these.
You can also use a block of wood securely attached with screws through the dropouts or an old rear axle with lock nuts and cones. You can even use a piece of threaded rod (all thread) with some nuts and washers.
Oh how beautiful it feels to pack up after a meet and go home after a long day. This one of the longest meets. Both girls and guys from both schools ran, and had field events. We were here forever and things got pretty ugly. We were hungry and tired. Whoever had food we'd attack like wild animals. This field was one of the best. Fake grass is just amazing.
So often I feel like I don't matter. That if I packed my bags and hitched a ride away from here no one would ever notice. Running away could be an escape from my reality.
We bought around 30 kilo of cobalt from one of the creuseurs to take back to Holland.
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Close-up view around a vintage industrial steam valve stem that contains exposed, highly fibrous asbestos valve stem packing material, which can be damaged when disassembling or performing routine maintenance on the valve's bonnet.
In this example, amounts of the asbestos packing is partially exposed and is seen protruding from around the valve stem at the valve's bonnet. The type of asbestos packing appears to be a fibrous, loose fill type of packing (see here).
Here's to a productive Labor Day. They call it Labor Day because you inevitably spend the entire day working hard.
Year 3, Day 271
Not leaving for a bit, but trying to see how much space I have/need
I predict non-cotton clothing will be big in 2007.
Going through my mental checklist at 1:30 am for a 7:45am flight - going back to Houston - hopefully the final trip.
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