Moving Meltdown!

The above tape dispenser may look innocent enough, but let me tell you...its been solely responsible for me having a nervous (rage-filled) breakdown this week. O came home one evening to find me ranting and raving about how I was going to throw it out the window (my words were much less polite, believe me). 

As you may have heard, we are moving in 12 days. How many boxes have I got to pack? A million. How many have I actually packed? About six. So, you may know where this post is leading, don't you? A list of everything hateful about packing/moving! Let's go! 

1. Moving all your crap from one house to another makes your realise how much crap you actually have. This then leads to you deciding that before you can actually pack, you must have a big clear out.

2. Said clear out takes about a week and you only have two bin bags to show for it. 

3. Ordering boxes to pack your crap in is hard work. O ordered 25 boxes, when I went to the garage to fetch them, we realised that they were only suitable to move the Borrowers. Yep, the boxes were teeny tiny. Lucky if we could fit three books in a box. Needless to say, more boxes have been ordered...we're paying Staples' wages right now.

4. Tape dispensers are EVIL. I've spent more time repositioning/de-sticking/throttling the tape than I have sticking things with it. 

5. Emptying your bookshelves makes you realise how dusty your house truly is. Must try to be a better housewife.

6. Boxes full of books are pretty heavy. Don't drop them on your toes. Too late.

7. When you're renting, you discover lots of marks on the walls/carpets that your pretty sure weren't there before. Rug Doctor and those invisible eraser things will be your savior. 

8. Having moved four times in the last three years, you'd think we have this moving/packing thing down. We don't. We never learn our lesson and start early. 

9. It's pretty expensive to pay people to move your crap. It's also pretty difficult to list all the crap that you have in order to get a quote from said expensive moving people. 

10. Re-directing your mail also isn't cheap.

11. Calling your bank, energy provider, council etc to tell them you're moving never gets any less annoying. The hold music also never gets any better. 

12. Opening the garage (which has never housed your car) gives you that sinking feeling when you realise you forgot you have a MASSIVE BBQ and a lawnmower amongst other garden related tools. 

13. Realising that you can't pack half of your crap until at least a few days before you're actually moving is also mildly frustrating.

14. Your other half finally seeing how many pairs of shoes/handbags etc that you actually have. Whoops.

Wow. Making this list was pretty cathartic and I'm already feeling a little less stabby than I was half an hour ago. Sorry that you had to witness my moving meltdown. I'm pretty sure that I've missed lots of packing dramas but I'm sure you'll all let me off the hook. They say that moving is one of the most stressful things out there and heck they're SO right.

Now, tell me. Tell me all your moving horrors. They'll make me feel better, I'm sure of it. Won't they?