Women Who Move Furniture by Themselves

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Some things, you learn simply by watching.

I come from a line of women who, during the long days while the men were away, would move very large pieces of furniture with no help from anyone.

I’m not talking a sideboard, easily slid to the other side of the room. I’m talking full size hutches down flights of stairs. Towering corner cupboards, that in the morning sat in the dining room and by the afternoon were comfortably snuggled into an upstairs bedroom. I have watched, and often participated in, feats of reorganizing enterprise that would result in husbands coming home to, well…different homes.

Moving furniture is an affordable way to redesign your life, and my mother and grandmother were pros at it. I can hear their sighs of satisfaction as they collapsed into their couches with a fresh view out a different window. Perspective is everything. And a woman alone, with an aim for change, can move just about anything.

In keeping with my matriarchal heritage, I am moving the furniture aro…