We too have "keepsake boxes" that heretofore had not been unpacked for many years. No more. All of those boxes got unpacked by my wife and kids (and grand kids) and the contents were sorted through by all but the younger set. Some of them even by the younger set. A lot of what was the contents now has new residence. The remains got repacked and carefully marked to detail contents. My wife and I will almost certainly never lay eyes and those items again. Yes, Ed, we are going to pay for storage at the rate of a little over $100 a month.terrydowning wrote:Oh, I'm no stranger to the moving process. Active Duty Air Force for 15 years. The longest I was ever lived in one place was in England. 18 Months on the economy, 22 Months Base Housing at RAF Lakenheath. So I know all about box labeling and not releasing an agent of the company until we have unpacked and inspected everything of value. I learned to keep a separate "High-Value" inventory sheet and made sure the numbered boxes and items on that list were unpacked inspected before the movers were released.
True story, We have "keepsake" boxes that have not been unpacked for more than 25 years. We know what's in them just sentimental stuff that can't be replaced anyways.
I never had the SS (or any stationary power tools) while serving in the AF. I did use the base hobby shops though! The SS was at my folks house here in CA. I have done some local moves but those were easy.
It is the short move (by family members) of my shop equipment that gives me nightmares. I can just envision the Mark V tipping over and falling off as they attempt to push it up the ramp or someone dropping my router table and messing up the edge/corner.
I moved the Shopsmith equipment four times while on active duty. I suffered lose on only one move (the first). We did not do a good job of tracking articles/cartons on and off the truck. When all was said and done there was no payback. Paperwork that I signed declared that everything was received at destination. Two boxes did not make it. To this day we are not absolutely certain what was in those two boxes.
I swear by Mayflower. We requested Mayflower (even after that first move) and got them all three time. The first was Mayflower by chance. I did not know at that time that I could specify the carrier.
