SayUncle’s rule of stuff
Each time you move from one domicile to another, your volume of stuff will double.
As evidence:
In 2000ish, the Mrs. moved with me into my condo. To get her stuff, we rented a U-haul (smallish) and got all her stuff there.
In 2002, the Mrs. and I decided bought a house and moved from our condo. We decided that moving yourself sucks so we hired movers. This move required two men and one truck and they made one trip.
In 2003, we bought a bigger house (babies will do that). We hired two men and one truck. It took two trips. We doubled our stuff.
This weekend, we moved to a bigger house (last time I’m moving for at least a decade). We hired four men and two trucks since we figured we’d want to avoid two trips. Well, it took four men and two trucks two trips. We doubled our stuff again.
Other stuff:
I was organizing the basement and realized how many boxes of Christmas decorations we had (Seriously, the boxes take up an entire wall of my basement and that’s just Christmas – not the other holidays). New rule: The Mrs. is free to buy any Christmas decorations she wants. But for everyone one she buys, she must throw two away.
Also, the new pad has a rec/bonus/playroom for the kids. It was the first time we had all of the kids’ toys in one spot. It was ridiculous. Same rule: For every new toy bought, throw two toys away.
Ammo is heavy.
Gun safes are heavier.
Watching these guys move my stuff, I was thankful to have a Master’s Degree. Remember kids, guys with Masters Degrees don’t move big screen TeeVees.
October 23rd, 2006 at 8:57 am
However, drstrangeguns with associates degrees move 230 pound 36″ tube teevees all by them selves.
Or, at least they attempt to. I got it from my pickup all the way into the kitchen through the back door before I had to relegate it to holding the kitchen island down until help arrived.
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:17 am
Well, if you want to impress me, come move the 60 inch projection set. Egad. Took four guys.
October 23rd, 2006 at 10:55 am
That wasn’t so much an attempt to impress as an admission of tacit stupidity π
October 23rd, 2006 at 11:12 am
It’s not true if you have a Master’s degree but are still in school. Then you keep moving your own stuff π
October 23rd, 2006 at 12:39 pm
The only thing keeping me from accumulating a truly insane amount of stuff is the fact that I move every couple of years (and I heartily thank all you taxpayers for picking up that bill).
In 2003, we took about 3 bags of stuff to Goodwill.
In 2005, we filled the back of my wife’s Dakota with stuff for Goodwill.
But still stuff accumulates. I now have TWO gun safes (actually one ‘security container’ and one real safe.) The safe weighs in at near 4000 lbs. Hopefully the transpo office takes me seriously this time when I tell them they’ll need a pallet jack and a liftgate.
October 23rd, 2006 at 4:43 pm
There’s a news flash in here: They make houses with basements in Tennessee? Hell, I thought “basement” was a foreign concept in pretty much the entire South. A few of the older homes here in Memphis have them (older = WWII or earlier), but most places, you’re lucky to even get a crawl space.
October 24th, 2006 at 12:09 am
You may have established a very bad precedent. Remember you started this over regulation, when your wife comes to you and says, “Honey, you can buy all the guns you want, but for each one you buy, you must get rid of two.”
Yeah, I know, you do what you want at your house. That’s the same lie I tell.
October 24th, 2006 at 8:09 am
Heh. Well, if I get the same number of guns as she has christmas decorations, then that’s fair.
November 17th, 2006 at 2:04 pm
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