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My wife and I have moved houses at least 15 times in the last 45 years. Lucky enough they were all company paid moves with full service pack, load and unpack by professional movers. Despite that it is still a pot load of work to move. Our first move, everything fit in a body job, but the volume seemed to grow each move. When we moved to this current house it took 8 movers 6 days and two 55' moving vans to move us. We will likely now live here till we are too old to own a standalone house. Since moving into this house 7 years ago we have been downsizing continuously and have sold many tens of thousands of dollars worth of stuff, as well as given away and donated about that much again volume wise. We still have a long ways to go.
If I had been doing self moves I would have either moved less or had WAY less stuff. I have no trouble understanding TOU's desire to move less stuff. Last edited by Dean2; 03-07-2021 at 03:30 PM. |
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For year I worked for a big bad oil company and all moves were company paid moves. All we had to do was stay out of the way. Fortunately my move to the Houston area in 1989 was the last move I had to make, even though I changed jobs in that time frame 4 different times while working in the Houston area. We had 4 previous company paid moves to that point. This last move was on us $$-wise since I've been retired since 2004 (at age 55), and a moving company did it all, and once again we just stayed out of the way. And all of my dies got packed and unpacked in the process, even though we did do a lot of down sizing on other stuff not important to either of us. Some went to a garage sale that was my wife's "one and last time" idea, but she said that in hindsight that that was a mistake. Most not-wanted stuff went to charity if it had value.. But that's just me and the wifey. As I stated earlier, YMMV..... BCB
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Duplicate dies
I tend to hang onto my duplicate dies - especially if I have more than one rifle chambered for that cartridge. This lets me leave dies set up for a particular rifle. This keeps me from having to adjust sizing dies to match headspace requirements for each rifle.
Just a thought.
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And its an excellent reason to hang onto the "extra" set of dies........ JMO - BCB
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Only moved 6 times, but once that one was a lulu, three houses in three different states in one year. Taxes were fun that year.
I refused once, when they wanted me to move to Singapore when my son was starting his Senior year in high school. And, I didn't want to live outside of the US for any reason, let alone the heat, humidity, cost and population density of Singapore. |
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When my second wife and I got married she was renting this place.
A few months later we decided to buy and i told her "I don't want to move again" IF we buy this place we can remodel it but, I want to stay here til they bag us up. We're halfway there, just me and a lil dog now. Been here since Sept '74, bought it July '75. She'd been married to a RE salesman and moved often. Bet there's a dozen places she lived in within 2 miles. 8 within half mile. I call moving Bullshit!
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Been in this home for the last 8.5 years. Not that it matters much but things change but our kids are all gone now...no more ball games, school concerns etc. Also our home is real pretty and all...just what we always wanted...but we just feel we don't need a 6 bedroom, 5,200' home anymore. (Especially one that we have been blessed to have doubled in value.) Just looking to move out and away a bit, maybe become debt-free in a smaller home with a bit of acreage. Quote:
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Obviously, a few dies isn't going to kill us by any means...lots more and bigger fish to fry. Thanks all! |
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Dean2: If you have noticed lately, most all the companies are out of stock on a whole bunch of reloading dies.
So it might just be a real good idea to hang onto all of your extra dies, either for down the road use or trading material in lean times. |
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Yeah Bill, I noticed that too. I don't understand that at all. I was looking for some 9mm & 40 s&w dies...never dreaming they would be non-existent or rediculously priced used. I would have thought the manufactures would be cranking everything up & out. Why aren't they?
Btw, my brother in law in Alberta said he can get what he wants in regards to rifle reloading supplies. (He & his 2 boys have been reloading for years.) I'm not sure how long since he last went shopping though. How is it for you Dean? |
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