Move
A couple of weekends back, I moved to my new apartment. This past 3 years, I had been living with roommates but now, I have gone away from this whole "common" experience. No more sharing bills, meals or blaming each other for the apartment's conditions! I am by myself now.
The first step to start off living in a new apartment is a painful step. It's the Move - packing, transfering and un-packing! How hard can that be? For starters, there are hundreds of websites which will give you advice to do things in certain ways for making it least painful during this miserable stage. Advice also starts coming in from other directions (family, friends or the stranger from office breakroom). In fact, I got a lot more advice for this Move than my earlier Moves. Since giving advice is free, people tend to use it rather, umm, freely. But every advice has to be heard, understood and analyzed to see what advice will actually work. I got advice about how I should move, where, when and which places to consider. Is it really the best time to move alone? How much money will I not save? How will it affect my life? And I thought this to be one of those easier Moves, huh!
For the actual move, we rented a truck and called a couple of friends to help us out. We shifted our stuff in just half a day. Then, like how a couple of days went in packing, the same process began for unpacking at the new apartment but ofcourse, it'll drag for a few weeks. In fact, moving by yourself is like a week's workout in a few hours. Change addresses, pay fines, dues for apartment's conditions, make adjustments to new place, dump ugly stuff you hate etc. But then, you only feel the pain when you move and tend to forget about it later on. Its similar to how Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, felt while he moved his home office on the very same weekend. Yea, its that bad (unless you hire movers)! None the less, after the hard labor, I am glad to have my own place. No place like your Home Sweet New Home!
The first step to start off living in a new apartment is a painful step. It's the Move - packing, transfering and un-packing! How hard can that be? For starters, there are hundreds of websites which will give you advice to do things in certain ways for making it least painful during this miserable stage. Advice also starts coming in from other directions (family, friends or the stranger from office breakroom). In fact, I got a lot more advice for this Move than my earlier Moves. Since giving advice is free, people tend to use it rather, umm, freely. But every advice has to be heard, understood and analyzed to see what advice will actually work. I got advice about how I should move, where, when and which places to consider. Is it really the best time to move alone? How much money will I not save? How will it affect my life? And I thought this to be one of those easier Moves, huh!
For the actual move, we rented a truck and called a couple of friends to help us out. We shifted our stuff in just half a day. Then, like how a couple of days went in packing, the same process began for unpacking at the new apartment but ofcourse, it'll drag for a few weeks. In fact, moving by yourself is like a week's workout in a few hours. Change addresses, pay fines, dues for apartment's conditions, make adjustments to new place, dump ugly stuff you hate etc. But then, you only feel the pain when you move and tend to forget about it later on. Its similar to how Dilbert cartoonist, Scott Adams, felt while he moved his home office on the very same weekend. Yea, its that bad (unless you hire movers)! None the less, after the hard labor, I am glad to have my own place. No place like your Home Sweet New Home!
Comments
I hope you are having fun living alone. Not for long, if your mom can have her way.