{"id":2023,"date":"2013-04-17T10:17:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2013-04-17T10:17:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T15:17:09","slug":"time-to-think-about-moving-for-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/04\/time-to-think-about-moving-for-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Time to Think About Moving &#8212; For Real!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/-mAW4F1wdGps\/SHbB7CA3HBI\/AAAAAAAASr4\/b8jFPh0UQBA\/s640\/IMG_2719.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">From our packout in North Carolina, July 2008.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s for real now &#8212; this week we&#8217;ve been squeezing in a couple of move-related tasks before I go to Omaha for more Air Force work. We put all our ducks in a row for looking for a house in Colorado, and we have made the arrangements for our belongings to get picked up in early June. It&#8217;s feeling real now!<\/p>\n<p>We are having our stuff picked up a little early this time around for several reasons: (a) the kids can still be at school and not underfoot during most of the packing and (b) we&#8217;re still planning our annual big trip to the northeast and I wanted to get the packing over with beforehand and (c) there&#8217;s more assurance that our belongings will be ready to deliver as soon as we get our house squared away in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>What this means is that things are getting REAL: in the month of May I will be wrapping up my involvements with the base spouses&#8217; club and the local Cub Scout pack, and I will be able to completely focus on getting us prepared to move.<\/p>\n<p>What types of things do we have to do in the 7 weeks? Here&#8217;s a quickie checklist, which will help me as much as it will help anyone else, hopefully.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Checklist of utilities to turn off<\/li>\n<li>Checklist of address changes for other creditors<\/li>\n<li>Establish a &#8220;Do Not Pack&#8221; space; remove items that you need packed, begin position items in there that you can&#8217;t have the movers take, such as personal paperwork, valuables, musical instruments, pet supplies, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Begin removing batteries from toys and lightbulbs from lamps<\/li>\n<li>Know where the cash is in the coin banks around the house, prepare a big trip to the local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coinstar.com\/\">CoinStar<\/a> machine (where you can convert the contents into one of a number of gift cards to waive the 8%+ fee)<\/li>\n<li>Get vehicles prepared for the big cross country drive in June<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/vollmerdp\/pcs-tips\/\">Here&#8217;s some other moving-related stuff I have shared on this blog in the past several years<\/a>. \u00a0This is the third move I will be sharing on my blog, this is a great way to help the kids remember what it was like the past several moves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s for real now &#8212; this week we&#8217;ve been squeezing in a couple of move-related tasks before I go to Omaha for more Air Force work. We put all our ducks in a row for looking for a house in Colorado, and we have made the arrangements for our belongings to get picked up in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,623,49,50],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5ycQ0-wD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2118,"url":"http:\/\/thevollmerfamily.com\/MajorMom\/2013\/06\/another-day-another-move.html","url_meta":{"origin":2023,"position":0},"title":"Another Day&#8230;Another Move&#8230;.","date":"06 June 13","format":false,"excerpt":"Today was the day. A great big truck pulled up to our house and picked up about 99% of our belongings. 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