My husband and I decided that having a baby, 3 dogs and a cat in a small one-bedroom apartment just wasn’t going to work for us so we sucked it up and found a place in the ‘burbs. Yeah, that’s right…we’re a cliché but at least we’re a cliché with an extra bathroom and a guest bedroom!
Anyway, anybody who has ever moved before knows what a horrific experience it is. And yet, because we’re not the smartest people on the planet, we decided that we wouldn’t hire movers in order to save money. I wasn’t sure about this plan but my husband assured me that it would be no problem. Keep in mind that I’m about 7 months pregnant so lifting heavy boxes is probably not a wise idea. Still, he insisted that he’d be fine. When I worried about not having enough people to help out, he was unconcerned. And when my mother called and said she had at least two people who could assist with the move, my husband actually said, “I don’t think we’ll need any help.” Huh?? Did my husband honestly think that we could not only move our whole apartment but also everything in the storage facility we rented by ourselves? Why yes, he did.
(Keep this in the back of your mind though: about a week before the move, we bought a solid wood dining room table that my husband had to carry into and out of a van and then into the elevator leading up to our apartment by himself and he complained of being sore for the next three days.)
A day before the big move we woke up to a snowstorm. A storm that forecasters were predicting would drop about 20 or more inches of snow on the ground in the next 24 hours. And so I put my foot down and spent the day calling movers and, miraculously, found some that were actually available the next day due to a cancellation. You know what my husband said?
“What a relief! There was no way I could have done the move all by myself!”
That is hilarious! So sounds like something I would say myself…
My husband is always declining help with stuff like that. And then he complains about how hard the job is. :s
Just you wait…until the UNpacking time comes and he can’t find something…this will be a whole new topic for this website!!!
i found this site while typing “why is my husband so annoying” into google…. so glad to hear that others are long suffering like me…. and despite all their faults we still love these men…. how is that possible?? either we are complete idiots, or we know that all men are going to annoy us somehow and so its better the devil we know. thanks for the vent
That is a great story!
We are about to do something like that, but we are loading a container for an international move. I hope we have friends ho will help…
LOL – just hysterical!
What is it with men and asking for help? Mine is the same way. We moved into our house 6 years ago with no help, but there is no way we could do it again with all this heavy stuff we’ve accumulated. Hope you’re getting settled in.
Now we need pictures of your new abode!
i adore my husband because he will NOT move us himself. he allows for moving expense into changing abodes, and will not put himself in a situation where he has to do much work.
i have BEEN the sole packing person, the sole “why havent you gotten everything over here yet” person, the “why are we still emptying boxes” person. that, quite frankly, sucks swampwater. so yeah, i do appreciate not having to do it.
Another hilarious post! I swear, we lead parallel lives- I’m 6 months pregnant and we just moved this past weekend from our small 1 br. apartment, the day after a snowstorm! (we already live in the ‘burbs of NYC)
All my husband did was supervise his friends and brothers as they did all the heavy lifting, and my SIL and I cleaned and arranged things. Then he has the nerve to complain that he’s tired from the move. Grrr!
yep. sounds like a man.
good luck with the move along with unpacking and getting ready for baby! do we get pictures of the belly??! and know if its a boy or girl?
IN DEFENSE OF MEN: Testosterone works in a strange way. It messes with our minds in such a way that it makes us think wecan do things that any sane person would see is impossible.
Picking up the hottest babe in the bar? No problem, until we actually try.
Driving without directions? Easy, until we’re horribly, hopelessly lost.
Moving an entire house of furniture by yourself? Sure why not!
Funny post.
I too have been the sole packer and un-packer. We moved last September from two different houses, and some how I managed to get stuck packing BOTH?! I will never ever ever again move without movers. I can do the packing and unpacking, but not having a bed in the house for 3 days after moving in… not cool.