Housing
13 Tips to Make Moving Slightly Less Hellish
How to escape with at least a shred of dignity.
The process of packing up an apartment and schlepping stuff to a new location is enough to reduce an otherwise competent adult to a crumpled, blubbering shell of someone who used to think it was a good idea to buy a lot of books. The boxes! The infernal sticky tape! The pulled muscles in your neck and back!
You might think you’ve purged your apartment of unnecessary crap: balled-up receipts from 2013, gratuitous bottles of half-empty ketchup, orphaned nails and screws clanging around in the bottom of a drawer. More likely, though, you’ve just done a passable job of squirreling away all the detritus. It will rear its fearsome head—like an angry, mangy phoenix—as soon as you start packing. What? What is this still doing here?