I know that there are time limits on these things.....like baby fat. I don't think you can claim "I had a baby" as your excuse for that extra flab when your youngest is out of college.
How long do I have before my "You just moved" window runs out?
Wednesday, June 22, 2011
What's the Limit?
Okay, this is a serious question. What is the statute of limitations of using the excuse "We just moved"? As in, the neighbor comes over and the house is not as clean as I would wish it to be and she says "Oh, don't worry about it, you just moved."
I know that there are time limits on these things.....like baby fat. I don't think you can claim "I had a baby" as your excuse for that extra flab when your youngest is out of college.
How long do I have before my "You just moved" window runs out?
I know that there are time limits on these things.....like baby fat. I don't think you can claim "I had a baby" as your excuse for that extra flab when your youngest is out of college.
How long do I have before my "You just moved" window runs out?
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We've been in this house for over a year and we still have unpacked boxes in most rooms. I don't blame the mess on the move, though, as the boys are a tornado going through the house on a daily basis.
(on an aside, my verification code for this comment is comic. Very fitting as I find my house rather comical.)
*thinks of the home she mostly grew up in* 15-20 years?
I was totally beating myself up after 6 weeks (no kids to 'help' here)...when a friend visited and said that she had just been to another friend's house who'd been moved in for over a year and they still had boxes everywhere.
So, I'd say at least a year :).
I'm saying you can get away with a solid six months scott-free.
After that, you have to at least have moved the boxes to a new location.
I hope it is at least until Grandma and Grandpa come to help out for a long weekend. I'll let you know how long it takes us (don't hold your breath) because the packers arrive here in six hours.
Six months. :)
my husband is all about putting stuff away. we've been here for 2 weeks and he's now saying "we don't even have all the pictures up yet!" (i must mention that only ONE isn't hung yet!) he wants all the boxes undone before our house guests come this weekend. only ten more...gulp!
I told him that when we were younger and would move, we never had pictures on the walls and boxes were the forts we'd play in until the next move. guess we don't have the kid excuse though...
You have more important things to take care of - your family. Put things away as you can, the way you want it done. You'll be happier in the long run than if you just stuffed things away any ol' place.
It's going on fourteen months since we moved stuff from my mom's house to our living room. No one is ever around to help.
Much longer than you've been there yet... Don't you remember being a military "brat"? Moving was like Christmas as there were ALWAYS boxes that had been missed and opening them 3 years later was always so fun to see what we were perfectly capable of living without for all that time.
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