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Phone it in Friday CI: YouTube Roundup CLXI: Hoarder House

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As readers know from my epic “Ululations for U-Haul,” I had to move a significant amount of heavy and large furniture from my future in-laws’ house to my humble abode.  My house is not large—it’s roughly 1000-square feet—and already stuffed with my junk.

Fortunately, I’m excellent at Tetris and the grandson of a furniture store owner.  I also grew up in a Victorian house that my mother crammed so full of knick-knacks, bric-a-brac, and gewgaws that I know how to maneuver around tight spaces overstuffed with furniture.  As such, I’ve adapted well to my new hoarder-like conditions.

I documented the state of my home post-move, mainly for my future in-laws’ amusement.  Then I uploaded it to YouTube, where it somehow managed to rack up 1,469 views (at the time of writing).  Let’s get that to 1500, eh, dear readers?

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Ululations for U-Haul

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This past weekend I had to move a bunch of furniture from my future in-laws’ home to my little house.  They are downsizing to a smaller home, and have been donating, selling, and/or rehoming nearly twenty years’ worth of accumulation to whoever will take it.  That means a great deal of their goods have made their way to Dr. Fiancée and me.

The move itself was not terrible, although we had the brutal task of moving an elliptical machine from their second-story rec room to their first-floor garage.  I recruited two former Music students of mine (quipping, “you didn’t know when you signed up for Music in the seventh grade that it was a lifelong commitment”; one of them rejoined, “I should have signed up for Drama”) to assist in the hurly-burly, and we got it all done.  We’re in the midst of a severe heatwave here in the South, so all three of us guzzled down water.  One of my guys got a bit lightheaded from the heat and exertion, but still managed to assist admirably.

In the process, we moved a recliner, couch, nightstand, dresser, and queen-sized bed (with mattress, boxspring, frame, and headboard) into my little house.  I also received a Husqvarna riding lawnmower—quite a gift!

The idea is that I will live like a hoarder for the next nine months or so until Dr. Fiancée and I purchase a home together—one that will, hopefully, accommodate all of this furniture (it will).

But moving all of this nice furniture (thanks, Dr. Fiancée’s mom and dad!) meant getting a truck and trailer large enough to pull it off.  That meant making a reservation with—groan—U-Haul.

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