The Top 5 Move Don’ts

“I just saw a RAT!!!”

“Where?” Asked my ever-calm husband mildly, not displaying anywhere near the appropriate level of hysteria. I mean, a rat! A RAT!

OK, so upon inspection, it was not a rat cowering in the corner of our new home behind piles of moving boxes. It was a scared baby possum. The morning after a 23-hour move, I can be excused for mistaking the snaky-tailed varmint for a rat.

Especially when the move should have taken about 9 hours. Instead, it dragged on into the wee hours of the night, allowing a confused little possum to wander in through an open door.

Other things that went wrong with that move included:

• Having to rent a second truck on the fly because the untrained college-kids hired by the moving company didn’t know how to load a truck.
• A sopping wet, blue-packing-blanket-stained sofa caused by the movers running for cover from a sudden downpour but neglecting to close the truck.
• Being presented with a bill that was $1000+ over the estimate.

Thankfully, I learned from that disaster and, when we moved locally six months later, I hired an awesome professional moving company who moved the EXACT SAME STUFF in one truck in 6 hours.

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