how to move in 3 easy steps!

1.) Find a new place to live. One with a yard, a garage, and a recycling bin big enough to hold an Oregonian's mass collection of plastic, tin, and glass.

2.) Give yo' landlord a 30-day notice. Bitch, I be leavin'. Okay, not really like that.

3.) Pack yo' shit up.

The bookshelf is going bare.

Thanks to some new Navy families in the just-North-of-Malibu area, I scored mad boxes from their PCS's. Amen. So I'm starting the long, arduous project of moving across the city today. Our plan is to move across slowly, making a couple trips a day, taking our time in the matter vs vomiting our possessions into the new home with rhyme and reason. Then we'll do a final move with all the appliances before abandoning this condo-shaped ship.

But we're still debating how to do that final push of appliances. I've had 3 different appointments by professional moving companies for estimates to do the big and heavy lifting. And so far I've had 3 estimates that would cost an ovary in some countries (and we're not talking a full-service move. We're talking 3 appliances, 2 dressers, and a furniture set. That's all). So Mr. Wookie is debating shelving the professionals for the time being and hiring his squadronmates. Because liquoring them up post-move along with Mrs. Wookie's DD service is a mere fraction of the professionals' costs. Now I just need to write up a contract about not throwing up in the Wookie & Co. drunk bus. You know never to piss off a redhead and a blogger, let alone both. ;)

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Mr. Wookie is back on hiring professionals, because they're professionals. So far we have one estimate that's not around the $1,000 mark (for literally a fraction of moving our home) and is under $500 (happier price, although we were looking for just a smidge lower). I'll be inquiring for a few more estimates of local companies without websites (referrals from my non-military friends) to see who may have a great price and a non-lazy Mexican crew.


Why professionals (at least right now)? Because there's liability. When your friend breaks something, it's, "Sorry bro." When you use pros, there's insurance.