We recently moved into a new house. Our old house was quite small and you wouldn’t think we could fit very much stuff in it. That proved not to be true. Luckily we hired movers. We did this for a number of different reasons. First, we sold our house without having a new place lined up. We stayed with at my parent’s house while we continued to search for a new house. This meant we needed to have our belongings stored for us. The bigger reason we hired movers is because I am done moving my own belongings. I can only scrape so many knuckles on doorways, pinch so many fingers between boxes, etc.
The movers worked well. When they arrived at our new house they handed me a list with an inventory of everything that was removed from our old house. I simply told them where to put the box or piece of furniture and checked it off the list. This was actually more stressful than it sounds (it was difficult to keep up with the speed at which movers worked). I’m not sure what we had to pay for this, but I can confidently say it was worth it. We did not have a single item broken or scratched in the move.
I don’t own many really nice / expensive pieces of furniture, but I did own a couple surprisingly heavy things. One was a wooden twin bed that has drawers in it. I remember carrying in my house with my brother-in-law. It was not fun. I also owned a surprisingly heavy desk. It was something I picked up ages ago from an old office building. The desk was huge and much heavier than you’d imagine. After moving it into my house with a friend I remember declaring that it would be sold with the house or movers would have to move it out. The movers moved it out. It barely fit through doorways and again, it probably weighs 1200 pounds. I didn’t want the desk anymore so I had the movers leave it on the curb.
My plan was to hope someone would take it. If that didn’t work, I’d call special pickup to come get it. Literally two minutes after the moving vans drove away, a pickup with lawn mowers on it stopped in front of my house. He unloaded his equipment and put the desk (he had help) in his truck and took it away. He came back for his lawn mowers.
Again, I’m not sure what the total cost was to have movers and to store our belongings (they charge by weight – seems odd, but true), but I would do it again in a heartbeat.
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