VERY lame excuse! Some friend YOU are, Cyclefrance! :lol:

I don't know of anyone from the Cellar who lives remotely near the 4 Corners region of Colorado. Ferret would be the closest, but he's still something like 300 miles away to the south, so that lets him off the hook, too. The problem with doing it by stages is that each time, this would involve an 800 mile round trip over mountain passes that are still covered with snow this time of year. I'm probably best off waiting until the end of the month when the passes will have begun to clear and just get it over with all at once!

It's almost a pleasure to help someone that has mostly uniform containers/cartons

And Sheer hell is when you show up to help some body move and they show up at their front door in a bath robe , then you notice that NOTHING is packed or boxed up !!!!

Can't y'all start your own thread to chit-chat about this?!

Truly, this thread has abandoned the spirit of banter and chit-chat.

You'll find thread drift is common. :lol:

Can't you start your own thread to chit-chat about thread drift?!

YOU started it!


:p

The fine art of the thread drift is an honored old Cellar tradition. Why, would you like me to go back to insulting you? I thought we had kissed and made up! :love:

ooo the afterthought - captured in the quote, or not in the quote

Yes, we can edit our posts here. Nice feature, eh? So are we still going steady or not? *pouts*

that's more like chit-chat. good good.

:)
I had beer for lunch pizza for supper and now more beer...

I drank too much last night, taking the night off now. Tomorrow is mom's birthday dinner with the fam. Don't wanna be hungover.

Can't you start your own thread about ^^^this^^^?! - Flint

Yeah I could but I am feeling like a lazy lurker today.....so instead I will re-hijack this banter thread and redirect it back to moving Mari... :right:

ahhhh I love Mondays!


Mari - one possible route is to look at freight movers - that's how I am moving my things to New Mexico in July... the UHAUL total move, including gas was over 4 grand! (mind you I am moving 1842 miles - so it's a longer trip than you) BUT - moving my entire household through a freight mover is costing me approx. $1600... they bring a shipping container and leave it at your home - you pack it and then they come and take it to your destination... possibly this could be a solution for you...some charge by the amount of space you take on the truck - some charge by the pound... but it is something to look at.

Also - the first time I moved from Virginia to Seattle... I found a long haul trucker who was making a coast to coast trip with a light load... he moved all my belongings for 200 dollars ... hell he was going that way anyway!

I hope you get all this worked out - if I was already in NM I would grab Ferret and we'd come lend a hand!!
(how f***ing sweet I am to drag Ferret into this!
Sorry Ferret!!)

I know we Brits, all mouth and trousers, but, God, you move so far over there - those sorts of distances here would have us in the ocean! OK - it seems like you will have to make a big move of some description, but if you want to cut down the size of the load, how about....

You leave some things that aren't urgent to have with various friends local to where you are now, and give them the deal that they are invited to your new place for a meal/stopover (date to be decided) on the basis that they bring your left goodies with them. If it's a weather issue then on the same basis, cancel the meal/stopover and make a second trip when the weather's good to pick up the left items from friends

Not sure how many options you can have beyond that, given the logistical nightmare of your relocation...