Are we MAD

vansboy

Sounds a good idea!

Saves all that worrying about who to visit/what to do at Christmas - you've the perfect excuse to do just what YOU want!!

It'll be fun!!

VB

poppy10_2

TJ27 wrote: »

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

OMG, that's so spooky!!! :eek:

jay7_2

We're moving in less than a couple of weeks. Two other colleagues from my office will be moving in December as well.

paulrn_2

If you are mad so are we, we complete Friday on the house we are buying and then are waiting to exchange and complete on our current house before Xmas, maybe not moving until 20th-23rd. Xmas is in a cardboard box!!!!!!!

carpetbelly

kmate wrote: »

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.

:T :T :T

One of the best things to do imo to help relieve the stress/block out stuff that needs doing

kissingthepink

Surely this is the best time to move, providing you can get the removal men booked in in good time? With all the holidays there is extra time to get things sorted in the new home. And you are starting the new year in a new home. It sounds great to me. Just scale back on the Christmas plans, or go to family or friends on Christmas day.

Melissa177

TJ27 wrote: »

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

Did you live together?

kunekune

We moved on 3 January once (in NZ, where everything shuts between Christmas and New Year).

The hardest one OUGHT to have been the move at a week's notice when my son was just 12 days old and we had only been out of hospital for a day. But oddly, that was fine, or maybe I just can't remember.

The hardest one in reality was just 4 weeks ago. Plenty of time but a short distance, crap removalists and then I got flu within days of moving in. Bad enough in a flat or bungalow but we have three sets of stairs and use all the floors.

Basically, all sort of things contribute to make a move good or bad. And the date, while it might help, doesn't have to. Just plan well, remember you'll have heaps of time to unpack, and enjoy working out where to put everything.

mr.broderick

MortgageMamma wrote: »

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.

All credit to you.
It is a good time to judge ones character through adversity.
On the other hand i didn't like the sentence where you gloated about
your nice car and big house.
To be honest there have been a couple of your posts over the last year that have grated on me.
Please go back to the mortgage boards and tout for your usual business..

Mozette

I think moving would've been a pain in the rear whenever it happened. Don't really see why being in December makes much difference, unless you have zillions of illuminated decs on your house - must take time to set up surely... Even though they seem to appear overnight in November.