I know....I know!! Karen and Mark moved all the way across the country to Houston. Lauri may be moving all the way to Calif.

Ours is certainly not that impressive! We are moving only a mile and 1/2 down the beach. But after 28 years, in the same place, it's pretty big to us!

I'm both excited and overwhelmed! Lots of work ahead, weeding out stuff, and getting the new place ready. Hope I am up to it. :)

Good luck Betty - I'm sure it will all work out eventually and you will be excited to get into your new place.

I hope everything goes smoothly, Betty, and you and Larry enjoy the change in living arrangements.

Cheers, Anne

Best of luck Betty, we are also in the throws of moving....lots of "stuff" to go through, and boxes to pack, but its very exciting...we too are only moving down the beach a few miles but still lots to do after living here for 17 years. Enjoy the process, it will be worth it in the end.

Betty, moving 1 mile or 1000 miles is just as much work! I can't wait to see the new house!
Us girls can start our own "movers club"!

Good luck with your move, Betty. Hope all goes smoothly and that you'll love your new place.

Good luck Betty and all of you moving. If nothing else it forces you to purge your belongings. Like Doris said, all the work but in the end it's worth it. How about sharing pictures of your new hoods ??

Congrats on the move Betty! We needs pics!!! :)

Betty, yes it is a big deal! Our move was less than a mile. The weeding out is tiring work, but the fun will come after you move. Good luck with this.

Betty, our move (almost 10 years ago) was just 11 miles. But, like Wendy said, it is still a big deal. We had been in our house for 29 years. The only thing that was easier than a cross country move was that we could pack things ourselves and not have to worry about them being handled roughly by the movers. We (actually I)did all the fragile things and left the furniture and non-fragile items for the movers.

To all of you who are now settling into new digs I wish you the very best.

Betty, this is exciting news for you and Larry. Best of luck with you move and the new house.

Nancy

Well, this looks to be an LCT trend as of late! May we all be happy and blessed in our new surroundings! :)

Yes, yes, yes.... we need pictures of the new homes! I am reading these posts with great interest, given that we will be moving in 5 months too! :( :(

It looks like our move will be happening in 2-3 months, too. I've been trying to weed out some "stuff", but there is still going to be a lot to move. We are only moving about 10 or so miles, too, but it still means a major upheaval.

I guess I will jump on the bandwagon here, and say that moving to me is a disaster!!!!

This is only the second move in my life, what a pain. We just put our house on the market and ITS
TIREKICKER time... Working out of the house is the hardest thing for me, trying to set up our our new office and still having active phone and fax lines so I can continue to function, So Much Fun!!!

The place we are moving into is vacant so it makes things a bit easier, piece by piece, but I almost wish I had to move in a week and had no choice.

FV

This is so funny that we are all moving!! Frank, you do not wish to move in a week, we just did it and my head is still spinning!!

I think I agree with you Karen.

Is your house on the market in Penn?

How is the market there, Boston stinks, except a couple of areas.

FV

Frank, we sold it last year and stayed in a rental house until we knew where we were moving. Mark retired from his current job and when he took the new job here in Houston, they needed him asap so off we went!
I also sold all my furniture, which made it easier to move. Today, we are going furniture shopping for the new house we just bought but haven't moved into just yet.

Frank, we just moved in late January.....we move quite a bit, but this time was particularly "special", as we did a complete rehab...(all baths, kitchen, many walls moved etc) and most of it while we were living here. The fun part is I work here as well, unless I am traveling. Really, we are so fortunate to be able to sell right now. Most of it is complete, I will take some pictures and figure out how to post them! Today I finished unpacking the endless kitchen boxes. :D . Good luck to you all.....it is painful, but usually worth it!

Karen, lucky you, furniture shopping! We've been doing a bit of that too, in our case just replacing a few things to suit our new space, but still fun.

The preparation is traumatic, no doubt. But worth it in the end--we unloaded about half of everything we owned. And it feels darned good. Still have to get rid of: most of my ancestral bone china; my mother's violin bow, David's banjo. And take a bunch of stuff we couldn't part with up to the cottage.

Movers club, I like that idea!

We also sold our home furnished. I'm having the best time picking out all new things and a new color scheme.

I have now given away of half of the "stuff" we don't need and the cartons are filling up with what we want to keep. Ebay has really helped generate some $$$ for fun purchases. Now if only the closet space was a bit larger I would feel better, but, there is a feeling of freedom letting go of unwanted and under used belongings. Well its time to go back to the cartons.......

Doris,

I'm learning how to do this from your posts. We too, are leaving most of the furniture behind. We are actually keeping the old place, at least for awhile.

Our closets, in the new place, are not as big as I might like either. We're meeting with a closet designer today. Hopefully, she will convince Larry that he MUST get rid of all that stuff he does not wear! :)

I'm sure you understand, my ol' things are treasures.... his ol' stuff is junk! LOL

Ah yes, Betty, I know that feeling.

One thing I did was find some photo treasure boxes at the camera store. It helped me organize gobs of ancient family photos (from our childhoods and before). We now each have a box of this kind of treasures, and they easily sit in the back of a closet shelf.

We're lucky--we now have more closet space than we have ever had. We're concentrating on closet organization, since the condo came with minimal shelving. Even planning the laundry room is fun.

Yesterday we bought furniture for our little foyer. Japanese-style, a nice little cabinet and a stool to sit on. Next we need a desk and book cases for our tiny den.

The first purchase we made when we moved was our big screen HDTV. First time I've had to have the TV in the living room. Even that's turned out to be okay. We love our new space.

Betty, We are now in the middle of the closet installations. What looked soooo big on paper now looks a lot smaller. I guess I'll do another sweep of my closet this afternoon. I just keep remembering "less is more".

I also found some pretty boxes and they are now full of pictures and one is jam packed with greeting cards from the kids. It's real hard to dispose of everything so I'm trying to be sensible about what I'm keeping. I never realized what a huge job this is.

A nice cruise after this is over would really be fun but its not in our future right now. A short trip to Las Vegas the end of July to meet some of our kids will have to do. We will wait for Ring of Fire and celebrate then.

You are so right, Doris. Right now, I am absolutely dizzy trying to schedule phone people, closet people, window people, punch list people.

Good idea about the boxes for pix and cards.

For those of you who asked for photos, I realized that the real estate lady had a visual tour on her website. To see Click Here

Betty, It's beautiful! Fell in love with that ocean view. You and Larry will be so happy there :app:

Oh Betty how beautiful! :)

It's just gorgeous, Betty. Love that master bath and great views of the ocean.

Betty, you and Larry have a beautiful new home.

Nancy

Betty, next time maybe you can find a home closer to the ocean . :D Loved looking at the beautiful pictures! Congratulations on the move!

What a beautiful view and new home. For us there is nothing better than living on the beach. Enjoy your new home with good health and happiness.

Maybe my sweet friends Betty and Larry will let me come and camp on that AWESOME beach!!

Any time, Sweet Karen!!!

Doris, we agree!!

Thanks everyone!!!!!!

Betty,
Really beautiful new home and absolutely killer ocean views! Enjoy!