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I’m so smart I’m stupid.

My wife wants to sell our house and move.  Her parents (and mine) don’t like climbing the 17 steep front steps and they won’t visit us anymore.  There is no talking her out of the move and anyway, she’s already packed up half the house because the real estate agent told her to.  While this was happening,  I did my part by hoping she would get over her idea of moving and I got a moving company to estimate the cost of our move.   The moving company pegged the total cost at over $6,000.00;  I immediately looked for a cheaper way to move.

Being the clever person that I am, and I have a crew of painters who can help out, I figured I personally could do the move for less. So, I rented a U-haul, had one of my employees bring it to our house, and loaded the boxes and furniture with my crew of painters.   I glowed all day with the inner radiance a genius gets when he saves a pile of money by doing something himself.

It took most of the day to load the truck with a small portion of our stuff. Read more…