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the value proposition of walmart. since covid, i've thought: yeah, staying the fuck away from walmart. it's cheap and it has a lot of stuff in one place, but i don't want the 'rona. now, i am moving, and i already have quite a few sterlite crates, but i've blown through them like a cocaine analogy. i need more bins. i have roped lewis into helping me this round, and, hey, we're going to stop at walmart first. i walk up to the entrance and see a few carts just kicking around, so, hey, let's save the cart pusher man some effort, i grab one and start rolling. i am promptly yelled at. no, you can't go in that entrance. i had only just got the cart and really i hadn't even gotten as far as thinking, yes, i'll roll right through this door, and i'm already being chewed out. lewis is kind to a fault, and thanks the man very much. this is why we work together -- i am a bit cantankerous, and he is kind to a fault. so we wheel back, back, back... and there is a line, a line, a line. at least two dozen people waiting to enter walmart. i fucking hate going to walmart in normal times, and now i have to wait on line for 45 minutes, and walmart is officially no longer worth it. fucker of it is, i really need more sterlite crates. should i try the curbside pickup shit? |
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its a hassle, but i find some satisfaction in the fact that its more troublesome to go in big stores and chains than doing the groceries at the marketplace, or smaller vendors. you could ask for boxes or crates at marketplaces or smaller vendors, the asian/indian stores. lots of them just need to get rid of them anyways. i know stores that keep them at the entrance for customers to carry their goods home. boxes in all sizes and they are as stable as the ones youd buy. or try craigslist/private ads and pick up used ones. people are clearing out like crazy since homeoffice etc.. if all else fails you know where to get some free carts .-) |
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if you want boxes, you can actually go on the US Postal Service site and they will deliver a whole pile of flat-rate boxes to you for free. then, yes, you can always go to a package store and they'll give you a whole bunch that smell like beer for free. i still have a bunch from my last move. but, no, i've come to appreciate plastic bins as more reliable |
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i looked into "curbside pickup" and none of the ones close by offer it, and i have no idea if they need a day or two, or what. i think i may just take lewis's suggestion and unpack some for re-use once the stuff is over |
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doing it step by step is my preferred method anyways, if possible. otherwise there is just piles and piles. friend of mine recently moved again. moved quite some times over the past years, always moving 200+ km so it pretty much had to happen in one go. im comfy with boxes, perfect fill/packaging ratio and i never had or took smelly ones. unpack, fold, repeat. what do you do with all the crates then while you´ re living at a place? resell or do youse them for storage after? |
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youse is now a word apparently |
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i'm afraid i'm only familiar with goatse |
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doing it step by step is my preferred method anyways, if possible. otherwise there is just piles and piles. same. just pile up anything ready to go over, by the door. bring it over, unloaded it into the kitchen at the new place. return home and box more stuff up. the kitchen had became full by this afternoon so i took a while to lug boxes into separate piles strategically located throughout the unit based on where the stuff should wind up. so, even if i can't remember where i put something, i can just think, "oh, i'd have put that with the office stuff" or whatever, and i am compulsive enough that this rarely fails me. without some sort of strategy i'd just hide everything on myself what do you do with all the crates then while you´ re living at a place? resell or do youse them for storage after? once they're empty they nest with each other and you stack them all up into one compact pile, then all the lids on top like playing cards, put 'em in the closet or something for next time i actually use quite a few even after moving, though, keep my casios and old walkmen separated out from my stash of electrolytic capacitors etc. |
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covid has ruined... ..the place i'm moving from, now that i think about it. i used to be out most of the day, long commute to work, quiet office. then i'm cooped up in a tiny place all day, the religious institution next door sets up a playground outside my window, i relapse on cigarettes, my landlady decides to sell the house to the religious institution, two solid weeks of chaos and construction and now it's ridiculous even trying to get my stuff out, cars everywhere, dumpster in the driveway. today: i finish some extensive recuperative stretching, and go out for a smoke. my landlady turns up and is all: yes, yes, when are you going to be out of the unit? i've already told her what i know a few times. there are some cars parked near where i have to park, on the lawn (because of the dumpster) and no, she has no idea who those people are. i say, "well, maybe they'll be gone by the time i take a shower" and we chat about moving and i suggest stretching and have a nice day then i get out of the shower, and one of the other tenants is parked in the driveway, preventing me from backing my car into place. this stuff is heavy and i am already dying and goddamn it. so i ringer her bell and ask could you please ask ford lady to move her ford and i am just pacing about in the driveway in a froth until it finally happens. like: you stupid cow. you hassle me about how soon i can be out, i say i'm about to move some stuff over after a shower, and then someone's blocking me from loading stuff up, and djkgfdfg can you please just let me do shit. as i am loading up the car, another one of her relatives shows up and almost blocks the driveway again; thank god she didn't. i am always nervous if i am going to be able to park when i get back home now. the new place has a garage |
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GAAAAY! |
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sorry just joking |
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it's cool i accept how your posts are |
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now that's really gay though |
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because i need an excuse to sit down for a bit, here are some more pro tips: - uline is amazing and get their starter packing tape gun kit; thing could withstand a nuke - generally slap some packing tape over the crate lids too to keep things from jumbling about in the car - also have a lot of sterlite plastic drawers. when moving, you take little sections of packing tape, and put one on the side of each drawer. that way you can just pick them up, lug them around without anything falling out |
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- plastic shelves. some of them are shit, but there are some pretty high-test ones available, too. you take them apart and it's just shelf layers and pillar rods and some feet and endcaps and you don't have to give a shit because they're all identical, interchangeable parts. you can throw all the shelves into the car in a pile, all the pillar rods in a box, the feet and caps in a ziplock, then just build the shelves at your leisure - plastic shelves are perfect for basement storage of plastic bins |
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i had to deal with having a storage locker for ages, and i'm so relieved to not have to do that, this round. this is part of where the plastic bins and shelves came in -- this storage locker is fucking expensive, and it's not even big enough; how do i optimize space? the third dimension, obviously. i went to home depo and got me some hdx plastic shelves and ok this is much better than just stacks of bins |
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good drugs disappeared from this side of the planet |
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ummm now better that a chick stared at me |
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a woman that lives in the area I could easily fall in love with |
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its my heart being cold, like the black priest said |
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love = best drug tax free pregnant women may love please love responsibly |
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today as well :) |
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having just moved from a crappy, tense, weird situation into a much more chillax environments -- i would add that even the best drugs can't ameliorate an intolerable living situation. and i don't even have the best drugs |
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see? |
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seen her, we didnt stare at each other cos there were matrons around when she got out of her building, but i saw a smiling aura around her for a while |
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not so distant really |
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the king of morocco introduced the death penalty to all those who traffic hashish into spain need I say more |
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yes, lets say more most probably profiting from corona the cartels introduced a new segment of the market consisting of nearly cbd hash/weed, at the prices of before covid (average 10 per gram), and to get stoned you have to paid 2-2.5x times more than before a happy joint has become once in a while for me |
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lets be clear, to have a healthy and honest time high you need at least 400 euros a month these days |
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the only good side is to be able to smoke all day and go to work without anyone noticing |
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i see, but i really need new glasses |
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love is functional in order to quit or drastically reduce |
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on the other hand its gonna rain all next week, so thats more for the ambience |
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tried a compromise to a presentable price.. |
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