You Know You’re Moving When… (A Relatable List for Minnesotans)

There’s a universal shared experience that bonds all of humanity together — something that transcends culture, age, and background. That thing is: moving, and how absolutely, comically chaotic it always gets.

Whether this is your first move or your fifteenth, there are certain rites of passage that every Minnesotan mover knows all too well. This one’s for you.

You Know You’re Moving When…

…you find something in the back of the closet that you completely forgot you owned, and now you have to make a real decision about the Rollerblades from 2003. You haven’t used them in 20 years. But they still fit. Into the box they go.

…your entire kitchen is packed except for one spatula, half a box of pasta, and a mystery sauce from the back of the fridge that you’re not brave enough to open. Congratulations, that’s tonight’s dinner.

…you’ve said “just a couple more boxes” four times and it’s been three hours. You live in a three-bedroom house. There are never “just a couple more boxes.”

…you discover that every single one of your boxes weighs 200 pounds because someone packed books in the large boxes again. We don’t talk about who did this.

…you’re moving in June in Minnesota and it’s somehow 91 degrees. You know those mild, breezy spring days that exist for eight weeks between mud season and mosquito season? Moving day is never one of those days.

…the entire living room furniture is in the driveway and it starts sprinkling. Because of course it does.

…you make the decision to carry the couch at a 47-degree angle up the stairs, confident it will work, and it absolutely does not work. There’s now a dent in the wall. You will tell no one.

…you run out of tape with three boxes still to go, drive to Target, and come home having somehow spent $127. Target does not let you leave with just tape. This is a known Minnesota phenomenon.

…you “lost” your box labeled KITCHEN #3 and spent 45 minutes searching for it, only to find it in the garage labeled RANDOM STUFF. Who packed this box? Unknown.

…it’s 9 PM, the bed frame is in four pieces on the floor, and you’re watching YouTube tutorials titled “how to put together IKEA MALM bed” while sitting on a pile of moving blankets eating cold pizza. You’ve earned it. This is living.

Sound Familiar?

Moving is hard, chaotic, and occasionally hilarious in retrospect. But there’s a way to make it significantly less of a disaster: hire professionals who do this for a living and actually enjoy it (somehow).

1st Class Moving handles the heavy lifting, the awkward angles, and the furniture tetris so you can focus on the less stressful parts — like figuring out what to do with the Rollerblades. We serve the entire Minneapolis metro area and we promise not to judge your closet discoveries.

Contact us today for a free estimate and let’s get your move done right — with minimal couch-in-the-stairway incidents.