Moving house is stressful

Whilst the complaint about 1van1.com is not really relevant, the comment about the refuelling is useful and something I learned the hard way too. However when I took the over-filled car back to Enterprise, they voluntarily issued me with a credit note for the value of the extra fuel.

An approximate rule of thumb if you only have to replace the fuel you have used is to calculate :
miles driven / 35 x 4.5 = the number of litres used. This assumes approximately 35 mpg or 8 litres/100 km which would be close to the average for a medium sized car driven sensibly.

I recently rented a van from 1van1.com to help me move house. When we collected the vehicle, we were told that we had to return it with the same amount of fuel. It was a digital fuel gauge, and measured 3/9 bars.

What they didn't tell us was that one has to replace the cap and turn the engine over in order for the gauge to work whilst refueling. So you're pretty much refueling completley blind unless you're told this or have a car that works in the same way.

I ended up spending £44 on fuel when really I only needed to spend £10. I'd only used 1 bar of fuel and drove just 85 miles. No sooner had I drove out of the petrol station forecourt had my fuel gauge shot up to 8/9 bars. When returning the vehicle I explained the error.

Did they care - no. Did they do anything about it - no. 1van1 are a joke.

Try being in the military. In the last twenty years I've moved thirteen times. We also have two, now teenage girls. The impact on them is tremendous.

have done this 4 times in four years but have had 2 half yeras in my latest home and I am so stressed fluttering tummy etc. We haveb had survey but still no mortgage offer so dont even know if got the money yet.also as relocating this time huge upheaval but family are there so its for the best. we get 2 men and van its easy enough to pack boxes up matalan were good for them.

moveminder.co.uk will find a removal man, pack your belongings, unpack the other end... you don't even need to be there, they will oversee the whole thing. You can walk out of one place and into the other without having to lift a finger. They will even do all your address change notifications.

Use www.helpiammoving.com a free independent advice site on moving house. Even has advice on moving with kids and a fanstatic packing box service

I despise moving more than anything. I used to be in military and they made me live all over the world. I had to move more than twenty times during my career. Every time I moved I threw away more of my stuff in the spirit of becoming more a more streamlined and efficient house-mover. Now all of my worldly possessions will fit in two duffel bags. In the nomadic process I have also become quite profficient at washing and shaving in public restrooms, living out of a gym-bag, rotating the same clothes for days, and washing laundry in a bucket behing my hotel room, and finding the cheapest (if not free) meals where ever I go. Now, when I go on holiday or away for business, my packing consists of stuffing a few pairs of socks and underwear into my front-trouser pockets and a few sandwiches and pieces of dried meat in the rear. I bring a bottle of water that I refill in public fountains and I wrap an all-pourpose towel around my neck.
I have essentially become a hobo.
This deeply disturbs me.

have moved house too many times, just take everything a step at a time, and prepare well in advance. Take your time unpacking, spend weeks doing it.

Use a Removal company and save your sanity,let us do the worrying.....mm

Moving house isn't exactly good for your health you know. Every time I move (which isnt often these days) I start packing like months in advance and plan it all to the last detail. Not sure about moving companies, haven't tried them.

So.. moving home - don't do it.

Moving house sucks! Finding a house was bad enough for me. I've got triple the amount than I did when I first moved in. Luckily I borrowed chris's van. A week now til I move into new place where Ive got to P**s about unpacking it all again, terrific!

Moving is the most stressful thing I have ever done and I have vowed never to do it again...