This morning our little old man (I’m so not in “Desperate Housewives”, with the yummy guy doing the lawn, let’s just say I won’t be sad to not see him every week this summer…) who takes care of our lawn came by to do the spring-cleaning. He cleaned my flowerbed, raked the lawn, and even mowed it.
A white blanket is now enveloping everything the gardener took time to “clean” – you wouldn’t believe that a few hours ago we were thinking spring-cleaning… Unbelievable! It looks like Christmas is coming not summer!
On the house front, things are moving. Today I’ve booked a moving company. I don’t know about the rest of the world, but here when July 1st comes around a bunch of people move. Every year it is a crazy time; leases usually expire on June 30th so everyone moves at the same time. This is creating some major gauging from the moving company. To try to book a move for July 1st, today, nothing is available. People book that date a year in advance! We’ve met with our builder last night and we managed to have him guarantee a delivery date (occupation) for June 28th. As far as movers are involved there’s a $25/hour difference on their hourly price between the 28th and the 29th. The closer one gets to the 1st the more expensive it gets. So instead of paying $75/hour, we will be paying something in the range of $150/hour – talk about the business to be in that time of year!
We didn’t even consider the option of moving ourselves; we decided to go with movers because:
1) Hubby can’t lift anything heavier than 25lbs because of his hip replacement.
2) We don’t really help people during their moves so we don’t expect them to help us. (Kind of makes sense, no?)
3) If something gets broken during the move, the company is insured. (It’s hard to give shit to a friend who breaks something while helping you, unlike someone you’re paying big $$ to…)
4) If someone gets hurt, it’s not a friend, so I won’t feel “so” bad… (um…I may sound like a real bitch here, but they chose that job, they should know the risk of lifting heavy things, no?)
Speaking of heavy, I should be packing some books… but I won’t lift those boxes, way too heavy for me! ;-)
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5 comments:
Kudos to hiring movers! Moving day is hell enough, then having to do it yourselves along with a bunch of friends and family...unthinkable, unacceptable, imposing...to say the very least !! Cheers...Mousse
Ahhhh, the joys of moving. Thankfully, I haven't had to pack up our stuff for almost 3 1/2 years...hopefully it will be quite a few more. I. hate. packing.
...you have fun with those books ;)
I must agree with you guys. I never ask anyone to help me move, nor do I help anyone move. Period.
When I worked in hairdressing, the rich Westmount bitch clients told me about movers that would packed all your boxes, too!
You don't have to lift a finger!
Wow, i've never heard of the big July 1st move! Thats so bizarre! I bet its like the beginning of school or uni or something, where theres just masses of people moving about.
Im odd when it comes to packing, i love it. Its really strange to see your whole life packed away, but at the same time, as a list-making-would-be-organised-if-i-wasnt-so-lazy person, its fun in a way.
I hope the move goes well, n not too many overpaid removal men get injured!
mousse: We'll have plenty to keep us busy on that day...
kim: I haven't moved in 13 years, so imagine the stuff we accumulated. Fun! Fun! Fun!
j67: Movers are too expensive to let them pack for us, plus in packing ourselves we "purge"!
plump pigeon: I think the July 1st moving is a very local thing, which in a way simply complicate things and create herds, which I'm not crazy about!
It's interesting to see an empty room with boxes pilled up...
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