hi guys it is december 2nd and i
decided i'm going to move to new york i
uh
that's crazy so i'm going to be moving
all the way across the country from la
to new york city
all by myself and i thought i would take
you guys along on the journey because
it is one hell of a pain in the ass to
book all my travel sell the clothes and
decor i'm not taking with me
find a home for my frankly excessive
number of plants say goodbye to my car
and pack up my entire life into boxes to
ship across the country
so here goes nothing
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cue the dramatic focus pull
oh okay we're doing it we're doing it
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okay this is less dramatic than i
thought i thought it was going to
process my credit card a little bit
faster
yes booked i'm going to new york
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now if i've learned anything from moving
five times in the past four years
it is that it makes you realize how much
you own
the first time i moved across the
country from maryland to la i did it
with two suitcases and nothing else
but this time i may or may not have
accumulated a little bit more stuff
this time i am hiring a moving service
but every single square foot of space on
a cross-country truck
really adds up so i'm trying to bring as
little as possible
so to start out i decided to book a spa
at a flea market to help me downsize my
la sized wardrobe into something a
little bit more
200 square feet studio in manhattan size
hello good morning it is like 7 a.m on a
saturday and i am at
the silver lake flea market i realize
that i have a lot of clothes to get rid
of because it's really expensive to ship
stuff across the country
and i didn't want to pay like thousands
of dollars to ship my wardrobe so yeah
normally i sell my stuff online but i
figured that it would be kind of cool
to do this in person and like meet
people and like actually have human
interaction
so yeah right now i'm just trying to
somehow like arrange
all of my clothes on the right hangers
so they look kind of aesthetically
pleasing which is turning out to be
harder than i expected
i have a lot of respect now from the
people who do flea markets because it's
actually really hard
to make a parking lot look aesthetically
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pleasing
this camera's so good i know
right
by 9 am my little parking lot square was
looking a bit spiffier
and the flea market officially opened
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when you fall in the fire
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hey guys it is nearly 5 p.m and i just
packed up at the flea market
overall i would say the day was actually
a big success at first i was so nervous
that nobody was gonna come because like
one person was coming at a time which
was really nice because i got to
actually talk to people for like a
really long period of time and like get
to know them
but it really started picking up in the
afternoon so many people came out
there was like a line for like four
hours
and thank you so much to everybody who
like actually showed
up for this it was really cool to meet
you in person some people drove like
all the way from san diego which was
absolutely crazy
i saw some of the girls too like while
they were shopping for my clothes they
like started talking to each other and
became friends
and i was like i got to be a little
friend cupid today
it was just fun bringing people together
as cheesy as that sounds sometimes i
feel like i forget how cool
the thing we have here on the internet
is because i don't get to see you guys
in real life and this was a really good
reminder i was just really feeling the
love
like literally one girl just came up to
me and said that
i'm a good person and like
i don't know that really got me
because
i don't feel like a good person a lot of
the time
and to just like see somebody who was so
sure that i was um
was really reassuring granted like i
don't know
she only knows the image that i put on
the internet and she probably doesn't
know like
all my up that's inside my
brain but
um i don't know it's very sweet
i felt very loved today and i really
appreciate that
hi i had submitted i guess like a survey
thing online about uh requesting a quote
for a move to la from new york you
wanted to go ahead and schedule an
in-home consultation
could i do 11 to 12 on uh
wednesday please have a great day okay
you too bye-bye
so i just got off the phone with a
moving company i would not recommend
just googling like moving company and
then going with the top result
i looked at a couple different articles
and customer reviews for which moving
company was the most highly recommended
if high school taught me anything it is
to cross reference your sources
that and wikipedia is the devil and i
should never have sex and a lot of them
mentioned this company oz moving
so i submitted a request for a quote
online
and oh boy it's gonna be a thousand
two hundred and sixty four dollars and
that is for
probably like five pieces of furniture
to be shipped across the country
so it's not cheap i was considering just
moving with like two suitcases on a
plane
and leaving everything else behind in la
so i wouldn't have to pay for moving
but given the fact that i have a good
mattress a couple of really gorgeous
gold mirrors that i really like
and an armchair that i've gotten
strangely emotionally attached to over
the past couple years
that together is worth more than the
cost of moving
so with my moving date locked and loaded
for january 16th the day before
my flight out to new york the main
obstacle in my way was finishing
my damn apartment makeover you guys know
that apartment makeovers are like a big
part of my channel and i had dead ass
from making this video for a year
but i had not finished filming the
apartment tour or edited any of it
and basically when i edit i will do like
a rough cut and then
i will go back and get b-roll which is
kind of those like additional little
clips that might be like a piece of
furniture or an extra shot in a tutorial
that kind of fill in gaps in the
voiceover and make the video flow
smoothly so basically that meant that i
had to edit my entire apartment makeover
before i could get started packing and
moving
because i needed to keep kind of like
the set of my made over apartment if
that makes sense this is pretty much
what i looked like for an entire week
leading up to the holidays
i went into full potato editing mole rat
mode like i did not see the sun for like
a week but once my apartment makeover
was finally up it was time to get
started on
the moving process for real
if there's doubt i'm not holy
no i could get all i want
and still have the nerve to ask
if i'm having any fun
drank too much again don't remember
anything i said hope some of it was
lovely
but that doesn't sound like me next time
i'll count
seconds instead beating heart idiot
so clever isn't it to know that there's
no point
in this wild eyes orange halves
coffee cups and epitaphs less torturous
to say it's all for kicks
thank you very much okay merry christmas
slowly people trickled back into la
after the holidays just in time for me
to give away what i couldn't bring with
me to new york
wow so this is my neighbor
tyler he has been the one taking care of
my plants while i was gone
in london and then new york and now he
is the adoptive father
of my plants as i move away this is like
what everybody has been asking me um who
is taking these plants
so hey it's me i'm the plant guys don't
kill em
this actually looks so ominous it looks
like it looks like you're in a horror
movie
part two tyler's place
i left some plants for my friend ryan as
well who promised to fist bump the
plants every single morning to keep them
happy
and because i genuinely owned an obscene
number of plants i still had more to
give away
to janessa and juliana okay i don't want
these to die
and i also got to give them my beautiful
bike which i don't think i would have
room for in new york
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so it is officially seven days before i
moved to new york and today is the day
that i'm selling
my car oh god this feels weird today is
the day that it has really settled in
that i am moving i had this whole like
bucket list of things that i wanted to
do in la before i left
and all these people i wanted to see and
at this point it's just not happening
and it's weirdly been making me anxious
that i can't do it all i feel like i
failed even though the only thing that i
failed is like myself
i just feel like it's my last chance to
do so much but as my friend put it which
is comforting this isn't gonna be
the last time i'm ever in la i'll
probably be back here in like
six months or a year for business so
i'll have a chance to do that stuff
again but
i feel like it'll feel different uh when
i don't live here anyways
so since it is new york obviously i
cannot bring my car with me
and probably in this entire moving
process which overall has been insanely
expensive
this is the one chance that i have to
earn back some money so the first step
in this whole process
was cleaning my car because as you can
tell i park outside and the birds have
definitely made themselves feel at home
so i took my car to the car wash and i
even rented out one of those mini
vacuums so i could detail the inside of
my car and i sprayed it with some fresh
car
scent so it would be all nice and ready
for its new owner last week i also went
to get my car appraised at
a used car dealership now this was a lot
less intimidating than i thought i
thought they were gonna like drill me
with questions about my car
but in reality i literally just gave
them the keys to my car they took like
30 40 minutes to look at it
and then they gave me a price now the
last thing i would have expected to get
emotional about on this move
was my car i've never been a big car
culture person like i literally could
not give a
what type of car you drive unless the
gas mileage is really really bad but
after i got my car appraised
for some reason on the drive home i
could not stop crying
because this car has been with me
through so much this is the car
that why am i getting so emotional this
is the car that i learned to drive in
this is the car that i took my driver's
license test in and i nearly failed it
because
i've got left and right mixed up yes i
graduated college but i still have to do
this
to figure out which one is left and
which one is right this is the literal
seat that i had my first ever makeout
sesh when i was like 16 years old and i
drove this guy to get frozen yogurt
because there was a national english
honor society fundraiser there
and then we made out in this car the
summer before my sophomore year of
college i was living in la and i bought
this car off of my parents for six
thousand dollars
i actually calculated this based on my
high school jobs which on average paid
me
around seven dollars and fifty cents
after taxes i spent
800 hours of work to buy this car i
remember that year i had
five roommates in a two-bedroom
apartment there were so many girls in
that apartment it was literally a fire
hazard
so i legally couldn't be on the lease
because that would just be too much
people in too little space
and i remember this car became really
special to me because it was the only
piece of property in this world that was
completely my own
and sometimes when i got really
overwhelmed with my roommates
i would just go to our underground
garage and sit in my car
because it was the only time that i
could ever just be by myself
then i got in my first car accident in
this car this boy that i really liked
from my hometown in maryland
came to visit me in la he was the first
person who ever came to visit me
and i was really trying to impress him
and be like cool and get an airbnb
in hollywood and when i was parking a
car ran into me
and i still have the dent to this day um
i don't know this car has just been like
through a lot with me i feel like i'm
giving up a little part
of my childhood and like the thing that
i grew up with it's a literal like hunk
of metal i should not be getting this
emotional without it she's seen me
through a lot
so anyways before i sell this car
tonight
one of my favorite things to do in la is
to drive up to the hills during sunset i
put on my country radio on the way up
and when you reach the top of the hills
it's the most beautiful view of la
i'm a hoe for an elevated surface what
can i say
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so
just because you know just because
caring is loving and loving is caring
on the bright side this is the last time
i will ever get stuck in la traffic
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goodbye baby thank you for tolerating
how bad i am at parallel parking thank
you for dealing with my
terrible little car seat shimmy that i
danced to country music while i'm
driving
thanks for for sticking around while i
grew up let's get this bread baby
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so i already got my card free so i was
just
okay i am officially one prius poorer
and five thousand five hundred dollars
richer now i'm waiting for my lift pool
to pick me up
i feel like i'm in ninth grade again
before i got my driver's license and i'm
waiting for my mom to pick me up in
activities
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hi guys so it is officially moving day
now ladies and gents well mostly ladies
i have
pulled off a lot of last minute things
in my life namely
every single week while i was in college
doing any assignment
or making any youtube video but i don't
think i've ever done something quite as
last-minute as this
which is that it is 5 25
on the morning that the movers are
coming
they're coming in two and a half hours
and i still have not
packed for my cross-country mood
yeah it's kind of bad um i've not slept
at all
because i was editing my video and now
it is exporting
also yes because i'm an extra i
did borrow my plants back from tyler so
i could have a cute background for my
video that week
but i promise i gave them back to him
that night before i left also i
probably am a little bit crazier than
usual right now because again i have not
slept in case i didn't notice
in case i didn't mention that let's pack
baby
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thank you so much
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and with that my life was packed into a
truck ready for the long haul across the
country
it's about two o'clock i am definitely
running late to get to the airport for
my flight
but i just wanted to say a final goodbye
to my apartment
it's so weird realizing that i'm moving
out of here and that
in just like a couple months i'm gonna
look back at the videos that i filmed in
this apartment
and be so like nostalgic for this like
old version of la ashley
you're just gonna view them right now ah
guys they're bittersweet i'm really
gonna miss this place
yeah i really love this place
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one two three
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hey dude yeah
do you think we can stay here forever
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