“DIY” culture is so widespread, you no doubt memorized long ago what those three letters represent. But just because your favorite TV home-décor-show host adores the abbreviation doesn’t mean it should be applied universally to every activity.
Take tires, for instance. Adding air? That’s a DIY-er. Rotating and balancing? Go pro. Painting a playroom? You got this. Spreading a roller across a vaulted ceiling? Call the handyman.
Which brings us to moving cross country. It’s one thing to move a studio apartment and its miniaturized inventory of items across town. It’s something else to pack up three stories’ and 10-plus years’ worth.
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Monthly Archives: August 2018
Move-Ready Millennials Say ‘Meh’ to Boomer Abundance
Clutching possessions for posterity? It’s OK to ease your grip. Here’s the reality: Millennials typically view their parents’ prized items as one, big collective pain in the posterior.
It comes down to values and taste. Those born between 1980 and 2000 operate under a much different point of reference concerning ownership vs. the generations preceding them. The seemingly abstract concept of digital ownership is, ironically, far more tangible to millennials than the concrete brick-and-mortar “permanence” valued by baby boomers and the Depression-era generation.
Virtual is in; physical is out. Lotsa stuff is viewed as the proverbial millstone around the neck. Limited inventory.
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Make It a Moth-free Missouri Move
Fleeing a laboratory roughly 150 years ago, they first feasted on New England’s forests before blazing a destructive trail westward and southward. Their hunger apparently knows no bounds.
Sounds like an eco-disaster movie poster, right? Well, this story is the real deal and, instead of coming to a theater near you, this menace might well be in your own backyard.
Introducing…the gypsy moth.
Under quarantine
The government knows all about it…and they want you and long distance movers such as Jackson’s Relocation Services of Sedalia, Missouri to help. By the way: It’s the law. These pests represent such an ecological threat that the U.S..
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