Moving is NOT for OLD People- 5 Tips to Keep You Sane if You Must Move After the Age of 65
My next move is to the cemetery. I swear to God, I will never do this again. Aside from the death of a loved one, I cannot imagine anything more stressful than moving at the age of 73, with only friends to help who are in the same deteriorating physical condition as me.
“One box at a time, Joan,” said my friend, Rita, when I asked her how she packed up her house to move to a new one after her husband died. “One box at a time.”
Saying that to a person whose garage and office looked like this (see below) is a bit on the optimistic side.
But the decision had been made. Six years of lonely widowhood, two years of life-threatening illnesses, 18 months of Pandemic isolation, and three years of not having seen my family, including six rapidly growing great-nieces and nephews sealed the deal.
My condo lease was up and I was moving half-way across the country from sunny Florida to ice-capped…
