On the move

Casey's new job is paying for our move - thank goodness!  Last year when most of our friends were moving to their nice new houses and fancy jobs, I learned that you could pay for people to come to your house and not simply move your stuff, but actually pack it for you!  To me, this is like the greatest thing ever!  So whenever Casey went on a job interview, I nagged him to remember to ask if they covered moving expenses.  He did good for me.  The hospital has a contract with a local moving company, so we didn't even have to figure out which company to use or worry about paying the bill and getting reimbursed later and all those details. 

I was very happy when our contact with the moving company confirmed that they would pack our stuff for us.  And I was overly delighted when she said that they would have unpackers to help us unpack our stuff.  Unpackers!  I did't know that existed!  I was super excited about the unpackers for the longest time until last week when I was reading through the fine print in the moving brochure.  It states that "we provide labor to assist you with getting items out of the boxes.  We do not place these items into their designated areas...you do that.  We do take away all the paper and boxes."  My enthusiasm for the unpackers suddenly waned.  Wow, they help take stuff out of boxes - I have a 4-year-old who can do that for me.  I need help putting it away, not getting it out of a box.  Elsewhere in the packet they mention that people who are packing themselves can buy used boxes for $2 each.  So basically their unpacking services is just a means of getting used boxes to resell?  I'm hoping that I find the unpacking service much more valuable than I can currently perceive and that on Friday I'll eat my words and think that unpacking is just as great as packing.  We'll see...

I haven't done much to get the house ready for packing.  Casey thinks that the packing crew with freak out when they come tomorrow morning, but I figure that's their job and they probably deal with cluttered houses everyday.  I'm sure getting a nice clean,de-cluttered house to pack up is a breath of fresh air for them (and they won't be getting that fresh air tomorrow).

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