Tag: movinghouse
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I’ll Even Miss Her Drinking My Wine. Maybe.
Its been a long and exhausting week since child number-one finally decided to leave the nest a few weeks before Christmas. In fact, it has been so completely crazy helicoptering over the move, there’s been very little time to consider the emotional ramifications. While my daughter is a bright little cookie with a very practical, logical…
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The Perils Of Moving House
NC was super helpful on the day It is somewhat ironic that after weeks of persuading Kurt to allow us to buy him a bed base for his mattress so that our house no longer resembles a student house, our own base refused to bend those extra ten degrees necessary to get it up the stairs…
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Memories, Friendship and On The Move Again
I might have mentioned that we’re about to embark upon our fourteenth house move. Reactions to the move have varied: the Princess has begun twitching so I will need to up her anxiety medication, and she and Kurt rock on her bed together whenever I pack a box. The old man has locked himself inside…
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I Should Have Packed The Wine
‘You’re the one that I want…’ the old man sang to me when I got up this morning. A sincere effort, I believe, to calm the storms that have inevitably begun to build up as we get ready to move. He’s been in a suspiciously good mood all week which he has tried to disguise…
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Moving House Again
We’re on the move again. Or perhaps we’re running away. We do this a lot as the relationships in our family, that now comprises of four adults, continue to evolve. The average age for kids to leave home is now 27 due to rising house prices, as opposed to 21 in the past, so I…
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14 Of The Best Moving House Tips
Although an oven may state that it is ‘self-cleaning’, that’s a lie! It does not self-clean as you use it, so allow three days for cleaning deeply engrained brown shit. Do not assume that removalists possess any spatial awareness or can see even those walls directly in front of them. Be careful not to pack…
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The Middle-Aged Nesting Instinct
I AM DEFINITELY NESTING. What I should be doing is organising the insidiously boring stuff involved with a house-move, like the utility connections (yawn!), but all I can think about is how I am going to furnish my new little apartment. I should be working too, but I keep getting distracted by Ikea and Freedom…
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Those Annoying and Expensive Online Shopping Mistakes
Now you know that I think that shopping is better than sex. The headquarters of eBay in San Jose, California. Photographed on August 5, 2006 by user Coolcaesar. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) And you also probably know by now that I’ve been a tad skeptical of the whole on-line shopping movement since its inception. It’s hard…
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The Importance Of Defining Roles In A Successful Relationship
Chaise Rocker (1 of 3) (Photo credit: Stewf) I’ve discussed the absolute necessity of defining roles in relationships before. Many of us slip into these roles quite naturally – where each partner takes ownership of particular ‘jobs’ in the household that are more suited to their own particular skill base. For example, the old man…
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Downsizing Your Dysfunctional Home
3DMLW APartment example (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So, our big news this week is that we’re moving house AGAIN. We’re staying in the ‘safety zone’, which is how Kurt describes our suburb, but we’re taking a massive leap into the unknown for dysfunctionals, and downsizing prematurely to an apartment. There are many reasons for this move,…
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It’s City Living, Innit…
English: North Sydney, Australia: CBD from the air. Taken in 2000 by Sonia Boddi-Kyle The image (taken in 2000) shows North Sydney’s high-rise commercial district from the centre facing south to Sydney CBD in the background. Sydney Opera House can be seen left of the Optus tower. Category:Images of Sydney (Photo credit: Wikipedia) So we’ve…
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