Moving Advice Done Right.
- Top 10 Songs for Moving Trips and Adventures
Remember when you would express moving concerns for your own entertainment whenever you were moving or going on a long trip? Well since mixtapes are a dead and dying artform we’ve managed to pick up the slack with CD and MP3 players and today we’re going to list the top 10 songs that should be played whenever you’re forced to move. Ranging from the upbeat to the homesick, we’ve got you covered from start to finish:
- Flathead - The Fratellis
- Go with the flow - Queens of the Stoneage
- Green Grass and High Tides - The Outlaws
- Highway Star - Deep Purple
- Reptilla - The Strokes
- Gimme Shelter - Rolling Stones
- Above and Below - The Bravery
- Detriot Rock City - Kiss
- In Bloom - Nirvana
- Train Kept Rolling - Aerosmith
I can only hope that this mixtape eases your mind and expressed moving concerns when you’re setting out to travel to a new desitnation. Good luck fellow travelers!
- Stacy Elizabeth Beshear Needs Some Moving Advice.
Not my normal trend to write about this sort of thing, but this article caught my eye and I couldn’t resist:
“Stacy Elizabeth Beshear has been charged with stalking Los Angeles Lakers forward Luke Walton. Beshear of El Segundo was arrested Sept. 18 after she pulled up to his car and pretended to fire gunshots at him with her hand, police Sgt. Steve Tobias said.
The 34-year-old Beshear has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of stalking. A Nov. 6 trial date has been set in the case. She faces up to a year in county jail if convicted, district attorney spokeswoman Jane Robison said Tuesday.”
I find it horribly entertaining that a stalker (who in theory has hiding and moving talent beyond the average person) would get caught doing something as silly as running up to Walton’s car and firing gunshots at it. Even if it was just her hand, it’s still kind of creepy and more than enough to get someone put in jail (especially in Los Angeles).
- 3 Must Know Pieces of Advice for Relocating Tree Huggers.
Bonsai trees serve as a symbol for trends spawned via Asian culture and tradition, and with the growing interest in how taking care of plants in relation to cultivating ones’ soul, we find that people come up against a brick wall when they have to move out of their zen-home into a new, more chaotic, and vastly different place. When it comes to moving out of your home, you’re tired, stressed, and at yours wits end which normally leaves the things that matter the least, forgotten. Plants are no exception to this rule and are usually completely neglected when it comes to moving out of the home. To help all of those whom do care about their plants, I’ve devised a detail moving plan for getting your sun-loving, carbon-dioxide-eating pals to your new home. The guide is divided into three logical parts:
1. Before the Move – Prepping Your Plant Babies to Move
Now if you don’t know anything about plants, let me try to educate you on the basics. Plants need three things to survive: Dirt, Water, and Sunshine. These are all simple things we take for granted but it is amazing how often we forget that plants need these three things when we’re about to move into a new apartment. Most people take all of their plants and leave them in a room with all of their other moving materials. This of course means that they don’t get sunlight, and occasionally are even deprived of H2O. To avoid this try keeping all of the plants you want to take with you on your front porch so they get lots of sun. If you live in an apartment, move all of the plants near a single window so not only do they get the sun they need, it will be impossible to forget about the tiny rain forest by the window; this way they’ll always be taken care of properly. Make sure that you plan to move the plants separately from the rest of your various items. You don’t want anything falling on them or blocking them from sunlight in your car.
2. During the Move – Even Plants Get Stressed
Plants have emotions too, surprisingly, and much like small dogs and spiteful cats they hate moving and remain depressed even after arriving in their new homes. To avoid this problem careful steps must be taken during the actual moving process to keep your plants healthy during the relocation. ALways make sure to take all your plants separately so that nothing, not even children, can harm the plants in anyway. Line your leather seats with a cheap towel and water your plants beforehand before placing them inside of your car to avoid making a mess and then tracking it onto your new wooden floors. Try to avoid turning on the Air Conditioner so that your plants stay at a comfortable room temperature and make sure to only roll your windows down a crack to avoid strong gusts of winds tearing apart more delicate plants.
3. After the Move – Even Plants Can Get Homesick
Don’t just leave your plants out and about when you’re finally settling into your new home. Make sure to put them in the same sort of environment they were before or your risk your plants dying faster because they don’t know how to cope with their new habitat. Try to re-create the living space for your plants as they had previously in their old home if at all possible.
Those of the USA who express moving concerns can now relax thanks to this guide. Now you can take this newfound knowledge about plant transportation and see to it that your plants get to your new home safely and don’t react negatively to their new surroundings. Good luck tree-huggers, you’ll need the most help if you want to take those Red Woods with you.
- Express Moving Advice For Small Businesses.
Source For this article is from: Microsoft
1. It’s impossible to plan too far ahead. If it’s a minor move,then you should know in advance where the cubicles will get set up and where the Ethernet connections will get wired through. Leave nothing to chance. Relocating an entire business — and don’t think it can’t happen to you, because small businesses do grow — can also mean moving a local-area network or a wireless network, numerous PCs and
printers. It can mean shipping equipment and inventory. Line up your proverbial ducks well in advance of the big day. Tip: With careful planning, and depending on the size of your business, you can ensure that the actual move happens over a weekend. That gives you enough time to install and troubleshoot any technology that has migrated. If there’s any down-time, it will be on Sunday and Monday, minimizing the impact to your clients and customers.
2. Be prepared for the unexpected. A move of any kind forces you to think on your feet, to be ready for anything. If you travel frequently, you probably already know how to do that. For example: Where do you go to buy a box of RJ-11 wire at 1 a.m. What if you need to make copies, but don’t have any of your machines set up? It forces you to take nothing for granted, even little things like power and phone service. Tip: You don’t have to be a frequent business traveler to know how to think like a nomad. The Small Business Administration’s handbook, “Take the misery out of moving” (www.sba.gov/gopher/Business-Development/Success-Series/Vol7/moving.txt), can help. It’s available online at no charge.
3. Use the move as an excuse to upgrade. For example, if your office is using bulky CRT monitors, here’s the perfect reason to donate those clunkers to your favorite charity and buy flat-panel monitors. It’s also a good opportunity to take a hard look at the software you’re using to see if it needs updating (I just upgraded from Office XP to Office 2003 on one of my computers). Basically, you want to arrive at your new office location in even better shape to do business than you were when you left. Tip: Use your laptop computers as “interim” office machines while you’re in transit. In other words, make sure they’re all synched up and have the latest software before you begin your move. Then, use them as your primary PCs while your new office gets situated.
4. Anticipate down time, even if you expect none. Moving can be unpredictable. Trust me. For instance, I thought I would close Inn at the Orlando Convention Center. It features free meeting areas and high-speed and wireless Internet access. So even though I’m out of the office, I can still get work done.
5. Let your applications help you “move.” If your relocation also involves an upgrade or migrating to new hardware (and as I just mentioned, this is an excellent opportunity to upgrade), make sure your programs do the heavy lifting. Save all of your old user options and migrate them to the new hardware or software, so that once you arrive in your new digs, you’ll be able to get to work right away. Tip: The trickiest of the migrations tends to be moving e-mail from one PC to the next. Outlook 2003 automatically imports your preferences and e-mail when you upgrade from a previous version on the same computer. When you’re switching PCs, go to File, Import and Export, and pick the option for the application you’re using.
- Moving Your Pet in the USA? Srsly You Guys. Srsly.
I really did mean it when I said that this blog was going to cover the most eclectic moving advice known to man. So why not start of with one of the most important, though constantly forgotten, pieces of moving advice: Moving your pets. You’re probably scoffing and thinking Well of course I would move my pet properly, who do you think I am? Well let’s put things into prospective. I had gone to visit my parents over the weekend; they’re from this ritzy Suburban town in New Jersey (no surprise); it’s the kind of place where people launder their pets with pampering, love, and expensive diamond collars. Pets are an essential part of suburbia, people are constantly jogging with their dogs or feeding their cats organic food. However, my parents told me a disturbing story. My old neighbors moved out of their apartment to a new one that didn’t allow pets. Instead of finding out about this ahead of time and planning accordingly, they went about moving without a care in the world and left their two beautiful kittens behind.
Pretty messed up, eh? It would seem that for all the money people spend on their pets, it all counts for nothing if you plan on moving and neglect the future of your beloved pet. So let’s get down to brass tacks. Here’s some advice so you ensure your fluffable kitty, puppy, rat, or snake a happy and bright future when express moving in the USA (I have no idea how moving works in other countries):
- Plan Ahead: This stage is of course, the most important, you have to find out if the place where you are moving even lets you have pets. This is definitely an important piece of advice for those moving into an apartment. Always check with your landlord. Even if the lease says no pets, ask the landlord anyway, they might be willing to cut you a deal of you pay a pet fee. Hell, they might even let you keep them for free.
- Get a Pet Carrier: You don’t want to have to move your cat in a cardboard box do you? (Cats love boxes for some odd reason). Nothing screams ‘Call the animal abuse hot-line’ than movers coming to see you stuffing your dog into a box with cut out holes for air. Getting a pet carrier ensures that your pet will have a comfortable and safe transportation device. Make sure to fill it with blankets and water in case you’re going for a long ride.
- Get New Collar Bling: Pets like styling themselves out just as much as young women in Manhattan before they go to a club to get hit on my older men. I digress. Getting your pet a new ID tag is a smart thing to do because since you’re moving to a new house, you don’t want your pet getting lost and then returned to a house you don’t live in anymore. There won’t be any way for a pet shelter to find your new address and your loveable pet might just be lost forever.
- Trap your pet: Awkward statement, eh? Sometimes you’ve got to do it. Much like wives and mothers, pets will freak out on the day it finally comes to move and try all sorts of crazy things. The best thing to do is to trap them inside the bathroom or any room with a lock so that you know where they are. Move the pet last, it’ll make things easier on everyone.
- Take the pet in your car: Simple rule - Just take the pet in your car and don’t stash it in the back of the truck of the moving company. Doesn’t matter how much quality service they offer you; your pet is just safer that way.
- Look Up Pet Hotels in Advance: If you have to move away and don’t have room to take the pet with you (anaconda snakes for example) you might want to invest into a pet hotel so that your pet can live in the comfort of home without having to worry about where their master is.
- Prepare your new home: Make sure your new home is completely free of lead, which might mean painting before bringing your pet into a house with noxious fumes. Their noses after all, are more sensitive than our own so respect that. Make sure everything is in order so that your pets can get used to their new settings. It will only make them more nervous if you’re constantly moving furniture around.
I hope this information helps all you pet-lovers out there. Best of luck moving your pets within the USA.
- Movers USA – Mixed Moving reviews
When searching for moving companies it’s hard to know who to trust. On paper all companies sound great they all offer similar moving services, including packing, express transport, storage and delivery options. And, they all claim to be all professionals but, at the end of the day any moving company you choose regardless if they have a good reputation or not can turn out to be bad.Movers USA sound like a good professional company they offer all the services you expect from a moving company. But I uncovered a recent complaint regarding the company. A customer complaint posted on rip-off expressed concerns about the company’s pricing structure. The customer complained that from the original quote he was charged an additional 500 pounds in weight costs. The biggest issue the customer had with the company was the slow delivery of their goods, even though the contract stipulated delivery within 14 days. Rip-off also listed another customer complaint regarding being overcharged. Don’t get me wrong Movers USA have plenty of positive reviews as well.
Reviews of the company
Negative
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/198/RipOff0198846.htm
http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/103/RipOff0103595.htm
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