Moving to College Again?

If you are in college then you probably know about moving.  I remember going from home to the dorm to an apartment.  Now I am looking at going from an apartment in college to a home.  It is pretty cool.   In my lifetime I have probably moved around 10 times, but this one was the first complicated move due to all of the weather involved.  It also gave me many lessons on what type of containers to use when it comes to getting things packed up.  This time was going to be in the rain and that makes things much more complicated and a whole lot less fun.

The weather sucked and I was a bit worried about this.  It was cold and rainy which makes a lot of things hard. Especially if you have a motorcycle and no way to trailer it.  So let's jump into how this was all acomplished. This made it super complicated to cover items and keep our entire apartment's worth of stuff from being destroyed by the weather.  This was made more complicated when we were unable to rent a Uhaul that was covered.  Instead, we used an open trailer because that was all we could find.  There were a few advantages to the trailer in that we could get all of our items in quickly because it had a low ramp that was not steep and we could hand cart all heavy items on.  But since it was open-topped we had the rain to deal with.  A big blue plastic tarp was going to be the answer and so that is simply what we did.  It was hard to tie, but worth it. 

Now I am a pretty cheap person and one thing I regret  was the cheap moving boxes we were using to do this move.  These packages were super flimsy already and when we put weight in them they simply started to shift and bend.  But when the rain hit them or by the time we got from the apartment to the home the cheap moving boxes were coming apart.  Some of the packages we had were really nice corrugated cardboard and those held up perfectly.  But the fact was that most of our clothes were soaked and then riddled with little bits of cardboard and it was so nasty.  So many good things did not go to our new home in good condition that it was really sad. 

At least we did one thing right and that was the vehicle we used. One thing that was nice was the ease of getting items into and off the trailer.  It is something that we decided would be amazing for a nice non-rainy move and it would have made the entire experience great if it was not rainy.  The hardest part of the whole thing was that I needed to get my motorcycle from the apartment to the home that very same day.  With the rain nearing ice it was a cold, slippery, and dangerous ride across town at night.  I wanted to wait to see if the weather would get better, but it never did.  My fingers were not too happy with this whole experience, but at least it was not the end of me. I hope you learned something from my failures!