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Posted: 11/27/2020 12:15:55 PM EDT
Picking up from BozemanMT Compound 2.1 and moving to Fort BozemanMT. (sounds much more tactical than moving from house in one state to next house)
And moving SUCKS. I mean moving sucks in general, but when your wife is a hoarder and you're a prepper, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkk. 1. I have a lot of stuff. I mean a ridiculous amount of stuff. Years worth of food, deep storage, and this doesn't even get into ammo issues, etc. My mom came over a month ago (when house was all staged and for sale) and said "where is all your stuff? in the garage. Oh, that's nice. No, you don't understand. (the garage is 1000 sq ft), i go and show her boxes stacked to the ceiling. "OMG, there's only 2 of you" and this is after throwing away/selling tons of crap. 2. You are trying to let things run down, esp in this crazy year so you don't have to move it, but you're conflicted on letting this stuff run down because well, this crazy year (and shit ain't getting better). mental gymnastics every day. 3. Gathering your ammo all in one place so you can easily load it into your buddy's truck (because moving companies don't take ammo) can be quite a shocker. He needs to get a bigger truck. :-) |
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Quoted: Picking up from BozemanMT Compound 2.1 and moving to Fort BozemanMT. (sounds much more tactical than moving from house in one state to next house) And moving SUCKS. I mean moving sucks in general, but when your wife is a hoarder and you're a prepper, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuccccccccccccckkkkkkkk. 1. I have a lot of stuff. I mean a ridiculous amount of stuff. Years worth of food, deep storage, and this doesn't even get into ammo issues, etc. My mom came over a month ago (when house was all staged and for sale) and said "where is all your stuff? in the garage. Oh, that's nice. No, you don't understand. (the garage is 1000 sq ft), i go and show her boxes stacked to the ceiling. "OMG, there's only 2 of you" and this is after throwing away/selling tons of crap. 2. You are trying to let things run down, esp in this crazy year so you don't have to move it, but you're conflicted on letting this stuff run down because well, this crazy year (and shit ain't getting better). mental gymnastics every day. 3. Gathering your ammo all in one place so you can easily load it into your buddy's truck (because moving companies don't take ammo) can be quite a shocker. He needs to get a bigger truck. :-) View Quote Lol, when I moved I had the biggest Uhaul trailer you could get. preloaded stuff the night before my buddy came over to help with the furniture. He started cautioning me about the weight of the stuff beyond the trailer axle. I lol’d and told him the nose was filled with crates of ammo and a gunsafe under those moving blankets. She tracked quite well going down the highway. edit, there is not much more I hate than moving. |
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Someones selling a $6mil custom house on Whidbey Island with a 'bomb shelter' under it (I think the owners died, they might have moved). It's advertised as being pretty well stocked (2 years of TP!). I think they just decided to leave the supplies rather than moving them. If only I had $6mil...
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Lol... you should have seen the Uhaul on our last move. Biggest one they had and pretty sure I bottomed the suspension out with the ammo and shelving load. Foot to the floor and she would only do 30ish on the hills
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I moved October of last year. Had a big party at the range and we burned all my “extra” ammo having fun. Gave my long term stuff to friends. Moved across the country with just my suv.
My plan was to restock and bulk up when I was out of temporary work housing and we bought a home. Closed February 14th. Work got weird and shit started shutting down about a month after that. Obviously paid a bit more than I wanted to bulk ammo and supplies but this house has 10x the storage so I am better equipped than ever. |
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When I married my wife and we moved into our first house together 5 or 6 years ago I had fun throwing away all the shit my wife had stored in her townhouse, like Verizon wireless bills from 1998.
She's not a hoarder, but she was raised alone by her boomer dad (he was much older when she was born) and has some boomer tendencies.. like filing away every bill you ever receive and never shredding them. This week my 12 year old Foodsaver stopped working. It just won't seal worth a shit and it kept throwing an error light (tray full) and wouldn't even start. So I bought a new one and went to throw the old one in the trash can today. She saw me walking out the door and said maybe we shouldn't throw it out, maybe it was just overheating and would still work. So I threw it from the front door onto the driveway and it burst into pieces. I said "this one fell apart, we have to throw it out." |
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Quoted: When I married my wife and we moved into our first house together 5 or 6 years ago I had fun throwing away all the shit my wife had stored in her townhouse, like Verizon wireless bills from 1998. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif She's not a hoarder, but she was raised alone by her boomer dad (he was much older when she was born) and has some boomer tendencies.. like filing away every bill you ever receive and never shredding them. https://www.ar15.com/images/smilies/smiley_freak.gif This week my 12 year old Foodsaver stopped working. It just won't seal worth a shit and it kept throwing an error light (tray full) and wouldn't even start. So I bought a new one and went to throw the old one in the trash can today. She saw me walking out the door and said maybe we shouldn't throw it out, maybe it was just overheating and would still work. So I threw it from the front door onto the driveway and it burst into pieces. I said "this one fell apart, we have to throw it out." View Quote our wives are related. I've found boxes that have not been opened since we got married (16 years ago) and "noooooo, i need that" fuck you do drives me insane. |
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Quoted: Lol... you should have seen the Uhaul on our last move. Biggest one they had and pretty sure I bottomed the suspension out with the ammo and shelving load. Foot to the floor and she would only do 30ish on the hills View Quote pfffffffffft amateur it's going to take 2 26' trucks to do it from a moving company there really is only two of us, in 1800 square foot home. (plus 1000 sq foot garage) |
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Tribute to the Mammoth Car Pt 1 If you didnt have to rent the Mammoth Car from Speed Racer in order to move your stuff then you don't need to whine about your supply load. |
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Quoted: pfffffffffft amateur it's going to take 2 26' trucks to do it from a moving company there really is only two of us, in 1800 square foot home. (plus 1000 sq foot garage) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Lol... you should have seen the Uhaul on our last move. Biggest one they had and pretty sure I bottomed the suspension out with the ammo and shelving load. Foot to the floor and she would only do 30ish on the hills pfffffffffft amateur it's going to take 2 26' trucks to do it from a moving company there really is only two of us, in 1800 square foot home. (plus 1000 sq foot garage) Lol.... that was just my shop/gun room move. We only moved 2 hrs away but it took us 5 total trips. |
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Our last move was in 2010. It was a move the next state over, about 3 hours away. My new employer was paying for the move so I really didn't do any downsizing. The guys from the moving company were pissed. "Why are you paying to move a two foot piece of angle iron????". Because I'm not paying for it. My employer is. We had two big moving trucks to move all our stuff out of a 2,200 sq ft house. Lots and lots of preps. That's not including the firearms and ammo that I moved on my own.
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We moved 7 years ago and it took a 26' truck and 3 of Uhaul's biggest trailers (12' I think). Food storage filled up 2/3rds of a 12' trailer floor to ceiling. Since moving, I've added guns and lots of ammo and a gun safe. Plus inherited some tools from my Dad when he passed.
I've had prepper friends move and they gave me a bunch of #10 cans and 5 gl buckets of food and 50 gls of diesel. I have no idea how long the diesel has been in the containers, I'm a little worried about using it. |
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I got married in 2004 and moved my new bride from the Tampa area to MN. She was a prepper and semi-commercial beekeeper. The first trip was the biggest truck Penske had, pulling a car hauler with a 53 Chevy pickup that was also loaded to the gills. The next trip was my one ton pulling a 30' gooseneck, grossed out at 29,000. I lost count of the number of trips with the one ton and 12' enclosed trailer. Luckily hauling hay down there and selling it for $12 a bale paid for the trips.
I can't imagine moving now. I had stuff too. Woodworking shop, repair shop, farming stuff, etc, etc. |
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OP title is the most basic, universal truth ever written.
I used movers for the house stuff, like furniture. I moved the more sensitive items myself. Needless to say, things don't always go according to schedule and the movers caught me and my wife trying to load the guns in my truck. First year after the move, I kept expecting the midnight visit. My cover story was, "Well guys, it's too bad I had to sell all this stuff to buy the new house". |
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I moved a few Months ago from a house I had lived in for twenty years. Our youngest daughter went off to college and our new home is a smaller lake house. I went from a full basement with about 1500 feet of storage space to a single 200 sq ft. bedroom in our guest house to store all my guy/preparedness stuff. I really had to cull my stuff and even had to trim my LTS food to fit in that room. It dropped my food storage down from a close to a year down to probably around 90-120 days. The process is not fun, but moving and downsizing really forced me to carefully assess my needs. No, I didn't need 10 wool blankets and six sleeping bags, and I haven't used my Aladdin kerosene lamps in years. I've got to find a home for those. When I have time I plan to further refine my gear.
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I will never move from my house in Texas for this reason
I don't PCS with much besides my generator and a few guns. |
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I feel you, OP. My turn is coming.
I'm about to move from WV to TX. Of all the times in the last 3 decades to pack preps/ammo/fuel, right?!? Once Trump is solidly installed and the country decides whether we're going to kill each other over it or not, I'll know what to sell, what to pack, and when I can move. It's maddening. |
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that's the worst part, it's not so much that i have so much stuff, but what do I let run down, what do i take, what do i keep at high levels?
one moving estimate guy asked me 'are you taking all this food?" ummmm yeah, have you been to the grocery store this year? |
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When I moved from the city for hours away to the farm, I had already been a prepper for a while. The moving guy we hired to transport from storage to the farm gave me a quote for the two storage units -- unseen. He was quite perturbed when he had to rent another truck and hire more guys to make it happen. And, he didn't see the safe or ammo cans. I handled those.
Five years and many more tools/toys later, I moved to a different farm an hour away. I have no idea how many trips I made -- 3 just with the farm animals. Here I am 6 years and many, many more toys, getting the itch for a new homestead where I cannot hear the train. Just moving the honeybees and equipment will be a 16' trailer load. Thankfully, I'm having a difficult time finding the right property. I'll probably add in the self-abuse of having the next house built. I'm not the brightest crayon in the box. |
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I moved from Southern California, down by the Mexican border, to Alaska.
I started moving four years ago. So far, I've made seven trips back and forth, Alaska through Canada to SoCal and back. About 28,000 miles so far. I still have three storage units down south to clean out. You think your move sucks? |
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PCS'd from FRG to Arkansas in '85.. Staff Sargent, everything I owned could be moved in 2 trips with a Mustang hatchback, except my motorcycle. Got married in '86..
Next PCS in '90, 29,000lbs, US Govt certified. Retired in '97, built house moved in, .gov moved 21k, we DIYT'd another 17k pounds in a big Uhaul, plus another 3k in our truck.. I suspect now, easily, 60k pounds of... stuff. I recently got a 2nd trash bin, 96 gallons I think, pretty big, I make it a point of the 2nd one being full of "whatever" every week. I figure in a year or two.... |
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My last move was just across town, but it was still a bit of a pain. I had a friend help me move my wall of ammo cans and he asked me "am I going to be on a list for doing this?" I replied, "perhaps". I hope I am at my current location for many years to come. Moving everything sucks.
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Try moving from AZ to WI not only as a FFL, but as a DD FFL/SOT. The first load was in a long bed F150 pulling U-Haul's largest trailer. That was only the long guns.
Handguns, NFA, ammo, and reloading equipment were more hauls. Then I had to think about normal household goods. |
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Fact:
When your father in law dies and he learns prepping from you... Then uncle who is a bit of a hoarder dies 6 months later... You just end up giving stuff away/ tossing stuff |
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I keep trying to convince my wife that if you haven't even LOOKED at it, much less used it in the past 5 years, you probably don't need to keep it..ammo being the exception. We have stuff in our shed that is still in the boxes that it was in when we moved into this house about 10 years ago...I keep telling her that we should really free up the space and either sell it, or get rid of it because I'm tired of storing it and having to work around it.
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Quoted: I keep trying to convince my wife that if you haven't even LOOKED at it, much less used it in the past 5 years, you probably don't need to keep it..ammo being the exception. We have stuff in our shed that is still in the boxes that it was in when we moved into this house about 10 years ago...I keep telling her that we should really free up the space and either sell it, or get rid of it because I'm tired of storing it and having to work around it. View Quote that is a losing fucking battle, let me tell you. I found boxes from when we got married of her shit that had never been opened. "oh no, i need that" that's 15+ years it's been in a box, you don't need it at all. some of those boxes MIGHT have found their way into the dumpster anyway. possibly. funny aside, her sister is TOTALLY A HOARDER. I mean bad. I mean can't get to the bed type of bad. she has (still) 3 big 10x20 storage units in southern california. My wife flies out for a week to help her get it down some. I'm told her I have the solution to her problem. JUST STOP PAYING the rent on the storage units problem solved with no effort. You haven't been there in 10 years, it's not important at all. of course that was totally rejected because all this stuff was really important and in the entire week of work (so 1.5 days of men work days) they managed to get it down to two storage units, at which point my wife left and her sister flew back to her new husband in Minnesota and that was 3 years ago, the storage units haven't been looked at since. "it's really important stuff" sigh |
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Girlfriend is supposed to move in mid February, my spare bedroom has been a storage room for the last 10 years and my living room has a full grow tent for starting veggies and growing fodder for my chickens. She threw a fit about my stuff and wanted everything out in the garage. So I spent a small fortune on shelving and totes to move stuff to the garage. Now she gets aggravated that I spend all my time out in the garage.
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I am not looking forward to moving when I retire in a few years. I have two big gun safes and a smaller safe, plus a whole bunch of miscellaneous gun stuff. I'm hoping that all our chickens and ducks will have died off, but we will have a bunch of pets and two goats to move.
My plan is to get rid of as much furniture and crap as possible and just buy new stuff rather than trying to move it all. |
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While I just rent I got a lotta stuffs.
I like watching videos where someone is getting rid of stuff to go full time into an rv. No way I could do it, but it does make you look at stuff a little differently. One thing I have discovered is if you gotta sell x amount of stuff to fund a really night night vision binocular set or thermal scope or what ever, a lot of the clutter might go bye bye. |
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Quoted: My plan is to get rid of as much furniture and crap as possible and just buy new stuff rather than trying to move it all. View Quote that's what I did when I moved across the country for much of my household stuff. Oh, amazon delivers to the new city? Sell my shit, only buy back what I need. It's cleansing and cash is easier to pack than like boxes of spices from the pantry |
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Quoted: One thing I have discovered is if you gotta sell x amount of stuff to fund a really night night vision binocular set or thermal scope or what ever, a lot of the clutter might go bye bye. View Quote I do this, too. I know tons of people that never sell a gun. But you know what? I've bought some taurus, kel tecs, other things I ended up not liking. It's MUCH easier to move a single Les Baer than it is to bring 10 glocks/taurus/ruger whatevers with their boxes, mags, and accessories. Hell I didn't even box the Bear up, just holstered and drove. |
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update:
done 2 completely full top to bottom front tio back 26' trucks by professional movers. (including the safe) it was FULL. 4 car loads and 1 pickup load of ammo and guns. (and dogs/cats), BARELY FIT. i couldn't even get a towel in teh last carload, truck wouldn't close. and yet, i feel like i have nothing and went to the grocery store first thing to start restocking before even unpacking boxes. |
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LoL, I hear you. Makes you question how really good we are at planning ahead, doesn't it?
Tj |
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With a wife like that... You have to work during the night and just throw it away.
Hoarding isn't bad if it's usable stuff. |
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I just moved with 2 trips in an pickup, and I was surprised at just how much stuff I needed to get rid of to make the trips, let alone if I took my preps.
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Quoted: With a wife like that... You have to work during the night and just throw it away. Hoarding isn't bad if it's usable stuff. View Quote That's a good way to end up with no stuff, following a divorce. If they're holding on to too much junk you need to nag them to take care of it themselves; just randomly throwing shit out is a bad idea, not to mention just plain rude. I can think of a lot of examples of people throwing out their spouse's shit, and it turns out they chucked stuff worth thousands, irreplaceable family photos, etc, because they didn't know what it was and didn't bother to know. And "hoarding isn't bad if it's usable" is precisely how hoarders end up with heaps of crap. Their definition of usable is out of whack in relation to the value of the items, and the cost of storing it and their ability to do so. |
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Hahahaha, try a military career...every 3-4 years is a logistics operation! Even with movers for household stuff, they won't transport ammo and I never trusted them with my guns or most of my mags, knives, and combat kit. Last move from TX to GA, my UHaul Trailer topped out at over 5000 pounds. Ammo adds up bro!
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ok, little addendum on this, cuz i'm still unpacking (and probably will be forever/2 weeks)
about every 3rd or 4th box, no matter where it belongs in the house has 3 or 4 boxes (boxes, not cases) of ammo in it. That i really don't remember putting there, because I really didn't move the ammo on the moving truck (cuz you're not supposed to) and I already built that room/shelf/cases, little boxes by caliber (it's a much bigger house) and yet, every 3rd or 4th box.................... |
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Quoted: ok, little addendum on this, cuz i'm still unpacking (and probably will be forever/2 weeks) about every 3rd or 4th box, no matter where it belongs in the house has 3 or 4 boxes (boxes, not cases) of ammo in it. That i really don't remember putting there, because I really didn't move the ammo on the moving truck (cuz you're not supposed to) and I already built that room/shelf/cases, little boxes by caliber (it's a much bigger house) and yet, every 3rd or 4th box.. View Quote Ah, dude, there are a lotta folks out there right now that would love to have your problem. All that ammo ... while some places want $99.00 for 100-rds of CCI Mini-Mags. https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/cci-mini-mag-hv-.22lr-ammunition-40-grain-plated-round-nose-1235-fps/FC-AMM-076.html |
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Quoted: Girlfriend is supposed to move in mid February, my spare bedroom has been a storage room for the last 10 years and my living room has a full grow tent for starting veggies and growing fodder for my chickens. She threw a fit about my stuff and wanted everything out in the garage. So I spent a small fortune on shelving and totes to move stuff to the garage. Now she gets aggravated that I spend all my time out in the garage. View Quote Put the tent outside and when she shows up to 'move in', show her the tent outside. |
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Quoted: Ah, dude, there are a lotta folks out there right now that would love to have your problem. All that ammo ... while some places want $99.00 for 100-rds of CCI Mini-Mags. https://www.cheaperthandirt.com/cci-mini-mag-hv-.22lr-ammunition-40-grain-plated-round-nose-1235-fps/FC-AMM-076.html View Quote oh, i did some culling late in the game. Cases of calibers i barely use or have a metric fuckton of or was weaker. (steel cased Wolf when i have fucktons of brass cased others) and my never listen to me it's fucking salad days now, buy now but now now they want ammo friends paid TOP FUCKING DOLLAR for my unwanted ammo. its pretty well paid for my move. and i didn't sell much. |
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I'm learning how much moving as a prepper sucks now. Even with my #@&+* of an ex wife having taken half of my food preps I feel like I haven't made a dent in packing them.
With about a third of my ammo in my vehicle the other day, I had my 4Runner riding on the bump stops transporting it toma friends house for temporary storage. |
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