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How Much Does It Cost To Move?
Ceetar Aug 12 2013 09:55 AM |
Anyone move recently? Did you hire movers? Did it cost a lot?
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metsmarathon Aug 12 2013 03:35 PM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
pizza + beer + uhaul
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John Cougar Lunchbucket Aug 12 2013 03:40 PM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
Yeah, you should be able to do this yourself.
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metirish Aug 12 2013 03:56 PM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
agree with above, last two moves were rented U-Haul.....no problems at all....IIRC the rent of the vehicle was not expensive.
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Ceetar Aug 13 2013 05:13 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
we did the u-Haul with family to move in, and it was quite a production and I believe my brother in law said something along the lines of "getting too old for this" and we've since acquired much more stuff, including big bulky and heavy pieces of furniture like a sleeper sofa. (And the staircase has a landing/pivot)
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Benjamin Grimm Aug 13 2013 06:50 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
When we last moved, my wife and I rented the U-Haul and did it all ourselves, with the exception of six heavy items. Hired a professional mover for those items alone; it was much cheaper than having them move everything, and also allowed us to handle most of our own stuff.
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HahnSolo Aug 13 2013 06:53 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
If there are any walk-ups, or walk-downs, or anything to do with more than a couple of stairs, hire somebody. Friends and family want to help, and they probably won't say it, but they don't want to be lugging heavy shit up and down stairs.
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Ceetar Aug 13 2013 06:57 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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Thought about that, but couldn't find that it was much cheaper just to have someone move furniture. Still looking into it though. part of it seems to be because it's the 31st, Saturday, and Labor Day weekend.
Yeah, I got that impression from my brother in law last time, and that was 5 years ago (and he's ~20 years older than me). We're one floor up (and not on the street) and the house is up a hill as well. It'd be one thing if what I really needed was car/truck space and just carrying boxes, but I feel bad subjecting people to heavy labor. (And once you ask, you're sorted obligated to help them in return forever right? oof.)
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Frayed Knot Aug 13 2013 07:09 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
Movers generally charge by the pound (and distance) so whatever you can do yourself will save you overall - and since the distance part here isn't much a good chunk of this should be self-doable.
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Ceetar Aug 13 2013 07:19 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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Thanks, yeah, actually my wife's company goes through A Lot of boxes and they're very sturdy so she's been taking a couple home every day. We close Tuesday and I can't really take off again to deal with moving, so that's Saturday, but we'll definitely hand-move fragiles, plants, cats, beer and what not ourselves in the interim. Yeah, the higher price ones I'm seeing seem to be the all-inclusive type places that talk about things like taking apart, putting back to together (And really only the bed needs that from the headboard, and it's just nails, and I know how to us a hammer). I've been googling some, and I soft-committed to this one company I found online. It's one of those generic "Northeast Van Lines USA" companies that seem sorta shady, but the little I can find on them as a company doesn't seem bad at least and it's not like I have to worry about the "truck breaking down" because it's never really going to be out of my sight. It might have been dumb of me picking this one, since they're out of Queens and charging me to get here, but all the local ones seemed to be booked up for that day, which unfortunately shrunk to one day once our closing got pushed back and we got out of the last two months of our apt lease.
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Benjamin Grimm Aug 13 2013 07:22 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
We had the luxury of having six or seven days to move. In the first few days we moved cartons and stuff to the new place but slept at the old place. Then once the beds got moved, we slept in the new place and spent the last day or two moving the final things from the old place.
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Frayed Knot Aug 13 2013 07:46 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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You'll probably HAVE TO move most of that stuff yourself. Last time I helped pack up my parents stuff for their move the mover told them what they would not take which included pets, plants and even most liquids. IOW, the planner said, "nothing that could possibly leak, explode, or die". They were even balking at some of my father's art supplies like paints and thinners in squeeze tubes.
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Vic Sage Aug 13 2013 08:29 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
picture this:
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Ceetar Aug 13 2013 08:38 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
yikes.
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Benjamin Grimm Aug 13 2013 08:40 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
Take them out to dinner.
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dgwphotography Aug 13 2013 08:41 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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Grandchildren.
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Mets – Willets Point Aug 13 2013 08:55 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
When we moved back in 2007 we had great movers who finished the move in less time and less cost than the estimate. A bunch of burly Hondurans who filled their coffee with 10 sugar packets each. I wish I could recommend them to you, but they don't operate in New York.
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Vic Sage Aug 13 2013 09:00 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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The cost for that is too great to bear; giving anyone in your matrilineal line that kind of emotional IOU is like living with the sword of Damocles hanging above you, and eventually hoping it just falls.
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Ceetar Aug 13 2013 09:06 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
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I'm approaching the point where this is the response to "Pass the sugar".
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batmagadanleadoff Aug 13 2013 10:20 AM Re: How Much Does It Cost To Move? |
Ask him to help you. He's experienced in this matter.
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