May 27, 2026 · 1 hr 5 min · 16 segments
I thought my move was chaotic, but it's got nothing on some of your moving stories. We're talking about everything that can (and did) go wrong during a move, plus a few surprisingly sweet stories of…
Someone says, "Moved cross-country with a 17-hour split over two days drive with husband and our three cats.
The move was so stressful on one of our male cats that he developed a life-threatening urinary blockage and needed emergency surgery within hours of us arriving in our new city.
He's healthy now, but what a way to start a new chapter." Wow, what a way to start a new chapter.
Having to find, like, the new vet that you need to go to, and then taking care of the cat while you're trying to move in.
Do not envy that, and do very much relate with the male cat for being so stressed because it's stressful for pets, too.
A lot of you wrote in, and were talking about pets and what it's like when you have to consider the logistics of moving your pets, some of you having to move pets, like, across the world on airplanes.
That's a whole logistical nightmare that I hadn't even considered.
My daughters have been begging for a while for a cat, actually.
They want a cat right now, and I have considered it more so than I have since they were born because I'm like, "Okay, they're old enough.
They would love it so much.
I think it'd be so fun to have a cat." But I just don't think I can take on the logistical load of a pet right now.
And I know cats are, I think, less logistically challenging or, like, time-intensive, high maintenance than dogs from what I've heard, but my biggest thing is traveling.
If we ever want to travel somewhere, having to find someone to take care of the animals sounds hard and potentially expensive.
And also with cats, it's tricky because I'll probably be recording here out of my home, and lots of people have cat allergies, and they can be severe.
And so I just don't think I can have a cat in the house because I'm inviting random people over to interview, and that's what I've been telling the girls, which I'm like, maybe they're gonna now resent my job.
[chuckles] Like, that's maybe not the best excuse, but I'm like, "We can't get a cat because I do the podcast, and people are allergic to cats." So anyway, maybe someday, like, a hypoallergenic dog, but I think that's still a ways out for us.
We didn't have help upon arrival, and we had a king-sized mattress with no structure, no handles, just a heavy floppy mass.
We couldn't get it in the house.
We left it outside the first night and slept on the floor.
A couple months later, we bought a house and moved again.
We asked the ward for help, and two older men showed up.
They had to shove that mattress up a staircase, and one guy somehow ended up [chuckles] burritoed inside the mattress on the stairs[laughs] An old man from the ward, like, shoved inside the mattress.
"I think we stayed active in that ward so long out of guilt for nearly smothering that man." Honestly, fair.
Like, calling upon the ward for help and maybe almost suffocating someone, you probably should at least, like, do your dues in that ward for a little bit longer.
Someone says, "Moved cross-country with a 17-hour split over two days drive with husband and our three cats.
The move was so stressful on one of our male cats that he developed a life-threatening urinary blockage and needed emergency surgery within hours of us arriving in our new city.
He's healthy now, but what a way to start a new chapter." Wow, what a way to start a new chapter.
Having to find, like, the new vet that you need to go to, and then taking care of the cat while you're trying to move in.
Do not envy that, and do very much relate with the male cat for being so stressed because it's stressful for pets, too.
A lot of you wrote in, and were talking about pets and what it's like when you have to consider the logistics of moving your pets, some of you having to move pets, like, across the world on airplanes.
That's a whole logistical nightmare that I hadn't even considered.
My daughters have been begging for a while for a cat, actually.
They want a cat right now, and I have considered it more so than I have since they were born because I'm like, "Okay, they're old enough.
They would love it so much.
I think it'd be so fun to have a cat." But I just don't think I can take on the logistical load of a pet right now.
And I know cats are, I think, less logistically challenging or, like, time-intensive, high maintenance than dogs from what I've heard, but my biggest thing is traveling.
If we ever want to travel somewhere, having to find someone to take care of the animals sounds hard and potentially expensive.
And also with cats, it's tricky because I'll probably be recording here out of my home, and lots of people have cat allergies, and they can be severe.
And so I just don't think I can have a cat in the house because I'm inviting random people over to interview, and that's what I've been telling the girls, which I'm like, maybe they're gonna now resent my job.
[chuckles] Like, that's maybe not the best excuse, but I'm like, "We can't get a cat because I do the podcast, and people are allergic to cats." So anyway, maybe someday, like, a hypoallergenic dog, but I think that's still a ways out for us.
We didn't have help upon arrival, and we had a king-sized mattress with no structure, no handles, just a heavy floppy mass.
We couldn't get it in the house.
We left it outside the first night and slept on the floor.
A couple months later, we bought a house and moved again.
We asked the ward for help, and two older men showed up.
They had to shove that mattress up a staircase, and one guy somehow ended up [chuckles] burritoed inside the mattress on the stairs[laughs] An old man from the ward, like, shoved inside the mattress.
"I think we stayed active in that ward so long out of guilt for nearly smothering that man." Honestly, fair.
Like, calling upon the ward for help and maybe almost suffocating someone, you probably should at least, like, do your dues in that ward for a little bit longer.
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