You’re moving and here comes all the “FREE” help!

I have been quite busy the past two weeks securing all the little details with a potential move and new employment. I’ve come to learn there are two types of FREE help you will get during a transition period in your life.

1) FREE Advice: These people will offer a plethora of FREE advice. Most will shove it down your throat and expect you to awe at their ability to point out the obvious. Some advice might be good. Others will offer you advice based on what they would do, regardless if it were right for your situation or not. I really enjoy hearing details on how to pack, find a house, and what to move; as if I didn’t figure it out the other 9 times I have moved.

2) FREE Round of 21 Questions: If you have ever moved, you understand there is a laundry list of little details to figure out. Finding a home, securing movers, dates, packing, Internet provider, etc, etc. If a person is not chucking advice down your throat, then they may opt to play the game of 21 questions. It’s the “When you going to move?” “Where’s your house?” “What route are you taking” “What dentist you going to see?” and bla bla. It’s all the things you need to figure out but don’t have the time to because your phone is ringing off the wall from all the friends giving you FREE advice!

Of course, there are the friends who just ask how they can help and leave it at that. Those are mixed in with the friends who want you to spend all the time in the world with them before you depart. Very sweet and all, but I will never be able to answer the 21 questions if I am spending all my time in bar with you.

I must admit the 4 years, which have passed, since my last major (over 300 miles) relocation; I have forgotten how time consuming all the little details can be. I have a dozen half finished blog posts scattered on my desktop, laundry that just keeps growing, and grass that compete with the laundry. All of which are really petty in terms of larger issues at hand. So I’ve come to the plan, in order to get anything done in peace and quiet, one must allow the battery in their cell phone to die, computer locked in a cabinet, and curtains pulled in their house. Maybe then, I can relocate without leaving my sanity behind.