Moving Timeline

[dragonlady7]

Looks like we're doing this pretty much entirely alone. There's a plea for help at the end. Please. Anyone. Help?

Well... I've moved before. (Once or twice. Hah! Dunno if anyone reading this remembers the move from Jersey City to Westchester, but Dave and I did it alone after work, which meant we'd be up all night moving furniture and then work all day and unload it and be up all night moving it... It lasted over a week and I have a horrifying photo of the bruises completely covering both thighs, as I tend to use them as a brace when lifting items as heavy as myself. These items tend to leave marks.)
Dave's too scrawny to do much heavy furniture moving, but he's good at taking direction, and I can lift like a mofo. Phear me. Rrrr.

Dave needs to be at RIT by June 7th.
So.

May 1: we clean like heck, and pack. And throw out approximately 1/4 of our belongings, which are worthless anyway.

May 8: we go up to my folks' place, and drop off some items, weatherproof, to store, to get them out of the way.

If I can, at this point, borrow the minivan from my parents, life gets easier.

May 15th: we make a trip to Buffalo in the minivan with certain unwieldy items that need to be transported separately. We store said items in Dave's mom's large empty garage. While in Buffalo, we attempt to look at apartments.

(Dave wants to live in Buffalo. It remains cheaper than Rochester, and he worked out that commute expenses don't make up the difference entirely. Also, all of his friends live there and his mom will feed him. Have been looking at classifieds: rent is $200-300 per person per month (including heat and laundry and yard and appliances and carpet and a freaking massage-- buffalo is cheeeep), in nice neighborhoods in the city proper. Also, various of his friends are looking for places, so possibilities of good and cheap shares abound.)

(flaw in plans: I don't know when to return the minivan. Possibly during the week of the 15th, and then would have to take train home. Train is expensive. Phooey.)

May 20th: Dave's last day of work.

May 21st: We rent a moving truck. There is a possibility one of Dave's friends will come help us load. This is a slim possibility; we all know he's a welshing nancyboy, but we still hope. I've tried to bribe him with concert tickets.

(Drawback: neither Dave nor I has ever driven a moving truck. Is it hard?)

May 22nd: We go with the moving truck to Buffalo.
Hopefully there is an apartment there we can move into. However, if there is not, we unload into Dave's mom's garage and spend several days looking for an apartment and a job for me at least (dave needs to know his schedule first).
Mid-week or later: we come to Melrose and hang out and help with wedding setup, if necessary. (If I can still walk, there may well be some free time then.)

May 29th: Katy's wedding

June 5th: Hopefully we're in an apartment by NOW.

June 7th: Dave starts classes at RIT.

This whole plan is made possible by the following:
Dave's mom's got plenty of space and is so excited at Dave going back to college she doesn't mind us showing up.
Dave's got some savings, plus some tax refund.
I've got some (less, but considerable, given how poor I've been my whole life) savings, and some taxes due back soon.
We'll probably be OK.
But man, this is going to hurt. Freaking Dave. He picks the busiest month in the last 15 years. Rrgh.

As far as I can tell, there isn't one single occasion where any of the immediate family could help me, but this seems to be the only time these things can happen.

So, if ANYONE in either Westchester or WNY is free at any of those times, and helps us, they will be given booze and love and food and all kinds of things.

and for you New York City types, I just want to share the following apartment listing with you.
A small note: Allentown is a chic district between Buffalo's downtown and Upper West Side (which is the toniest part-- all the Old Money live there, and there still is a bit of that in Buffalo whatever else you may say). They host an annual art festival. They are Cooler Than You. So, think, like, The Village.

ALLENTOWN Huge 1300 ft 2 bdrm, impressive lake & dwntwn skyline views, beautiful park view, new functional frplc, priv balcony, in unit washer/dryer, new ceramic kit & bath, new lg windows, new furnace. Must see $800 316-7818

Did you notice? That's a luxury apartment, people. Luxury.
Sigh.
I am paying $1500 a month for a tiny 2-bedroom third-floor walkup with a kitchen so small I have to leave it if I want to turn around. Why so much? Because it's walking distance to the $10 train to Manhattan. OOOO come on, I don't even leave the damn house. Fuhgeddaboudit.

Anyway, that was an unrelated rant.