New Apartment Woes

~tetris

Hi folks, been a while -- was coordinating The Grand Migration of one apartment to another.

Lessons learned

Read the damn contract. If you moved in and no one painted the apartment for you, then you don't need to paint it on the way out.
Spam your landlord. Make it very clear what damage existed before and what didn't, and make sure you clarify on every action required to get your deposit back.
Be nice to your neighbors. Even those you barely speak to, if you lather them up with leaving gifts they're likely to forgive you for the racket of transporting a washing machine down 4 flights of stairs.
Have a large extended family. If you don't have a large extended family, make sure that your SO has a large extended family. Five people ready to dedicate resources to your problem at a moment's notice is not something I'm used to, but boy was it incredibly helpful.
Clean, clean, clean. The apartment might be a piece of junk, but if it's a *clean* piece of junk then it's basically a palace, and no one can claim you denigrated it by living in it.
Don't take a holiday 2 weeks before the deadline. You won't enjoy the holiday, and you won't enjoy all the extra work when you get back.
Keep all your current contracts if you can. If you're on an old energy contract, try to keep it when you move. Same with internet.
Resolve every fight with your SO via a shared meal. If you break bread, all the drama before is washed away under the banner of "we were just exhausted".
Download movies/cartoons/anime at work, so that you have something on your phone to watch in the evenings.

Anime watched over the last few weeks

SpyXFamily: Cool triple-deceit concept, but the characters are boring.
Tokyo Revengers: Cool time-travel concept, but the main character is at least 2 steps behind the audience which gets annoying.
Mushishi S2: Lovely visuals, beautiful story, and given the slow and gentle way people talk (or barely at all) to one another, the animators must have enjoyed making this one.
Humanity has Declined: Great meta-commentary on the state of the world, with some nice bouts of amnesia and out-of-order storytelling involving Nature, Industries, and Faeries.

Looking forward to the end of this week, when all this moving drama is over and I can mentally move on with my life.

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~contrarian wrote (thread):

SpyXFamily is getting a second season.

~xiu wrote (thread):

Thanks for the tips, ~tetris! Can definitely relate to the resolving of fights point. Exhaustion is a heck of a thing and sneaks up on you when you're not expecting it to. Hope the rest of the move goes smoothly.

~inquiry wrote (thread):

Welcome back. Nice to read you again.

~enderasg wrote (thread):

Thanks tetris, will keep in mind if i ever move hehehe