This moving house business

I’m going to be honest here – for the first 5 days of moving house, I was not okay at all.

I suppose I thought that because I’m organised, things would move along swiftly and in an efficient manner. When they didn’t, it kind of threw me for a loop.

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Let’s go back a little bit to late 2005 when we moved into the previous house…

  • I was much more of a hoarder then
  • The prior house had TONS of storage space
  • and still we moved out and were unpacked in two days

This time I’d Konmari’d, I’m now the Organising Queen (HA!) and 11 days after the move, there are still 6 of D’s boxes unpacked. Granted, the fact that they’re not mine doesn’t bother me in the slightest.

We moved on a Friday.

On Saturday morning I was up at 6 am (unheard of!); on Sunday morning I was up at 3 am. No, I wasn’t keen to get up and started with the day; it was my busy brain thinking of everything I had to do.

After the 3am wake-up, I realised I just have to work like a slave because I’m quite fond of my sleep and can’t afford to have it interrupted on a daily basis. Happy to say I’ve slept well since.

I know there are others reading who are like me – your environment has to be in order for you to be able to breathe….

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So what made me feel better?

  1. Getting the kitchen sorted first because the kids keep asking for food…
  2. Knowing that most of my things were in place – clothes, toiletries, technology (cables, chargers, etc.) – and sadly, once the internet was working on Sunday, I felt connected again and happy!
  3. I went to the hairdresser and chatted to her, and guess what she told me? I’m being too hard on myself. She reminded me that she and two teenage kids moved into a new house last year. It took her a full week to unpack all the boxes, and a month to get everything in place like she wanted. So to expect things to be in order within 5 days was a tad unrealistic.
  4. And then Jess Lively. She did a podcast recently and she said something like this (I may be mis-quoting a bit) – you haven’t lost the ability to create a beautiful home. Wow. Because everything has felt out of place, with photo frames all over, definitely not intentional and deliberate.

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To that last point, everything in our old home had a place and felt right. While things are unpacked, we are not at that place yet. So I needed that reminder that I created a beautiful home once or twice before, and I will do so again… in time.

Who knows why I’m telling you all these things but I feel like someone needed to hear these words tonight.

Stop being so hard on yourself. You haven’t lost the gifts, skills and abilities you had, and you will exercise them again when the time is right.

Tell me your moving house stories. Did you need to read this today? Let me know so I know I’m not talking to the walls 😉

PS all pics of the old house. I have taken a few pics of “select” areas in this new house but they’re still on my camera 🙂

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  1. I only moved once. It was awful. Most likely because I was disorganised. I’m probably going to move within the next year or so. I am dreading it. I am hoping to outsource EVERY SINGLE THING. Even the unpacking.
    I must agree with your hairdresser though – 5 days is VERY unrealistic. Just take it one box at a time.

  2. I think it will take a while to settle in no matter how organized a person is. When we moved 3 and a half years ago it was terrible. We decided to renovate as soon as we moved in, so we unpacked just the essentials and had the entire house tiled and painted and all the ceilings done. Twenty days later when we were almost done with the renovations, we that epic hail storm that damaged everything. The ceiling had water damage and had to be redone, which meant the walls had to be repainted. Renovations round 2 took 3 months. It was a nightmare. I like the message and I know you will make your new house beautiful again.

  3. I’ve always loved the idea of moving. New beginnings and all but the reality is it is tough. Depending on the size of the house 5 days might be a tad bit too ambitious if you are doing it all yourself and not full time.

    My last memory of moving was 11 years ago with my sister in law. Horrible. She was moving temporarily from a big condo to a very small apartment. Let’s just say that scared me for a long time

  4. I moved house 10 months ago… it was the most stressful thing I have ever done. Our landlord decided to sell his house without telling us and give us 1 week to find somewhere else to live, pack, move and paint the house back to the way it was when we first moved in.

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