Are we MAD

hsvqbutr

Are we MAD, we are planning o n moving house in December. bit close to xmas me thinks. ANyone else that mad and moving in December, Also anyone got any tips n how to make it go smoothly.

Cheers
gary
PS our current house looks like a war zone, boxes everywhere.

PasturesNew

When I was 10 we moved house on 18 December.

It was the last day of school that year and so my parents had managed to get everything sorted while me/sister were at school.

When we came home we just got in the car and were whisked away to the new house, which was full of boxes.

littleowl

Don't panic - I have moved house twice around 19th December for some weird reason. As long as you are organised it is no different from any other time of year!

TJ27

I moved house on 23rd December. Spookily, so did my brother.

kmate

We are moving on friday (30th nov) and my house is also in a RIGHT STATE. I am now half way through a bottle of wine to try to blot out the mental list of how much there still is to do. We have two school age kids and a baby, and none of our family "are free that day" to help. EEEK!

AND DH has promised the kids a christmas tree will be in place on the saturday.......

Seriously though, I think moving is awful whatever time of the year you do it, think on the brightside, you will have a few days of from work to get stuff done, and there is something nice about being in a new place in time for xmas.
Hope it goes ok.

hsvqbutr

kmate wrote: »

think on the brightside, you will have a few days of from work to get stuff done,

Luckily for me I work away from home monday to sat, so its my wife who gets to have the headaches. I get them sat and sun. hehehehe, bet yes im off for 2 weeks over xmas so will have loads of time, but i did drop us in it a bit, i got the family round on boxing day for a get together.

cheers
gary

Amber07

I move on Friday, I have a school age child, a toddler and a baby. My hubby has the long weekend off to help decorate etc.

It may be mad, but we found our ideal home, so why hang about? The way I see it, at least the mad rush is only for a few weeks...I've got all of 2008 to relax.:D

And a tip for you: Make sure the tea/coffee/kettle are in the first box that gets unpacked!;)

Good luck Gary

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We moved on 21 Dec 2 years ago. Our new neighbours came over with pre-Christmas drinks, it was fun. :beer:

mr.broderick

hsvqbutr wrote: »

Are we MAD, we are planning o n moving house in December. bit close to xmas me thinks. ANyone else that mad and moving in December, Also anyone got any tips n how to make it go smoothly.

Cheers
gary
PS our current house looks like a war zone, boxes everywhere.

Good luck with the move.

Lavendyr

Good luck! Hope all goes smoothly. As suggested above, make sure you know where the kettle, tea and coffee (or perhaps brandy ) are when you get to the new place.

MortgageMamma

I once moved house, single handedly as a single parent of a child just six weeks old on 24th december. My landlady sold the house from underneath me whilst pregnant, despite the fact I begged her to wait until I returned to work and I would buy it. It was freezing cold and I moved most things on my own, on foot, whilst the old lady next door looked after my baby.

I never forgave the landlady for completing on Christmas eve, If I ever saw her now I would rub her face in with my 40k car and big five bedroomed house,

But, Christmases come and go and where there's a good one there's a bad one. Home is where your heart is, so if you love your new place its the right place to be at christmas.