How to move:

1. Buy 10,000 Garbage Bags

2. Toss stuff out.

3. Buy bus ticket.

OK, as tempting as it is to just throw stuff out and buy a bus ticket, it isn't that easy. To begin with you need to have a reason to move. For us the primary reason is to buy a farm, deal with a lawyer, and get out of the city. Price of land dictated that we are moving to Ontario, limits on Legal Aid for a suite we are involved in did also, and mountains combined with health killed any idea of staying in British Columbia.

With only 26 days left till when we are suppose to be on the road, I am really feeling the crunch. Most people have to deal with canceling their phone service, and often those phones are either canceled to early, or to late regardless of what you tell Ma Bell. For us it's not a problem because we are keeping our 604 phone number, and adding a 416 area code to the VOIP service we use. (I might even add a 800 number for it come spring, we'll see.) The internet DSL we currently have is going to be canceled, but it is provided by the same company as out phone, so it can wait.

We did hook up cable TV for the last month while we we're here, mainly because I am packing up all the satellite equipment and the distraction is worth keeping the younger kids out of my hair while this move drives me into the bat house. So that will have to be killed too, and the cable box returned to the thieves … I mean, cable company.

Speaking of thieves, … I mean utility companies, the gas company is over paid. We send a certain amount of funds to pay the bill every month, they re-accesses the amount of natural gas we are using and 'forgot' to tell us we were over paying. So that will help out with the fuel costs of moving.

Hydro has to be disconnected as well, I don't even know how we are suppose to get the deposit back on that. They want to hold it till we move to the 'new' place, so I spent time arguing with them about being off grid, and out of the province.