Problem du jour
5/23/2005 12:13:00 PM
Ugh. So, as if planning (and paying for!) a wedding isn't enough, Dana and I have to be in Houston, as most of you know, five days after we get married. In Chicago. So in addition to all the wedding hullaballoo, we've got to find reputable movers, get a quote, and secure their services.All of this is much, much harder than you can possibly imagine. See, any good moving company (any company you would trust, say, moving everything you own across the country) will come to your house to give you an accurate, weight-based estimate (who knows these things?). After getting the estimate you have to make sure they don't have too many complaints, make sure they've got all the right insurance, and all kinds of other nastiness that one just doesn't have time for while working full-time, trying to get married, and set up a home office half a country away, among the other, more trivial problems that life offers up (like the Sox taking two out of three in the Cubs-Sox series this past weekend).
Anyway..
On top of all THAT, we happen to be moving in the middle of the summer, when everyone else in the world moves. And we're moving at the end of the month, when nobody has trucks available (because everyone wants to move at the end of the month). Add on top of that the fact that the truck WOULD arrive the first several days of July, if it wasn't a holiday weekend, and will likely be delayed because of that, and that I have to start working from home on the FIFTH, and one wonders how all the stuff will even get from the truck into the house (if we hire, as we're now discussing, a you-pack-it-we-drive-it kind of company).
Dana is being an angel and trying to coordinate all this from work. Our newest option: come pick up our stuff BEFORE the wedding but don't deliver it until AFTER we get to Houston. Let's hope we can be accommodated.
UPDATE: I've posted this thread at movingscam.com to solicit help, if you'd like to follow along.
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3 Comments:
ill move your stuff.... 10 bucks
posted at 2:57 PM
Yikes - sounds like fun! uggh.. let me know if I can help - I'll have plenty of free time after I graduate!
posted at 8:30 PM
if they hold your stuff, you may have to pay a storage fee...
posted at 2:13 PM
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