Given all your savings on this move, next time you can afford to hire the White Glove movers who also cater the after-more-meal with fine china and crystal. :^)
The sad thing is that the real reason we didn't hire anyone is because we really didn't want to deal with people, ya know? We have a hard time with that. :P
Yep, you'll laugh about it someday. I've had laundry-related disasters at the beginning or end of every move in the last decade; we had to call a plumber at 8 p.m. the first weekend we lived in the current house after the washer flooded. (Oh, and I'm such a dog person, the cat pee sounds utterly horrifying to me, especially when the washer is kaput. I assume you didn't have the cats boarded because of age, but could you preemptively drug them when it's time to move back to your house?)
I gave up the college-style moving years ago, because while it's awful ordering around 3 strangers in my house (and DH *always* finds a way to not be there when I need him to be giving orders so I can supervise the overall process), it's better than guilting DH's gamer friends or the kids into helping.
Ugh. Sorry that you too have had to deal with plumbing emergencies.
Yeah, we'll drug 'em up good next time. At this point, they're still peeing, and peeing blood, and that's not good. It's a pain to clean up, but the old lady cat is far enough along in kidney failure (common in older cats, and she's ancient at almost 21) that her urine has no smell, so at least that. Of course that means unless I see a wet spot, I can't locate where she's peed. Sigh. I feel like I live in a house with two crazy cats.
One of them is on Prozac. Maybe I'll steal.... but no. Stealing meds from the cat would be a terrible thing to do. :P
Yeah, next time, I'm hiring. There will be many a freakout about that, I'm sure.
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Given all your savings on this move, next time you can afford to hire the White Glove movers who also cater the after-more-meal with fine china and crystal.
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The sad thing is that the real reason we didn't hire anyone is because we really didn't want to deal with people, ya know? We have a hard time with that. :P
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I gave up the college-style moving years ago, because while it's awful ordering around 3 strangers in my house (and DH *always* finds a way to not be there when I need him to be giving orders so I can supervise the overall process), it's better than guilting DH's gamer friends or the kids into helping.
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Yeah, we'll drug 'em up good next time. At this point, they're still peeing, and peeing blood, and that's not good. It's a pain to clean up, but the old lady cat is far enough along in kidney failure (common in older cats, and she's ancient at almost 21) that her urine has no smell, so at least that. Of course that means unless I see a wet spot, I can't locate where she's peed. Sigh. I feel like I live in a house with two crazy cats.
One of them is on Prozac. Maybe I'll steal.... but no. Stealing meds from the cat would be a terrible thing to do. :P
Yeah, next time, I'm hiring. There will be many a freakout about that, I'm sure.
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