What if there’s literally only one object of any significant weight?
How many stairs, how awkward is it to get out, and how many “insignificant” boxes are there to put in the truck?
Last time I moved at age 50+ I recruited my brother and his 5 sons to get s 3bdrm house emptied in two passes
Family and their spawn are different, they know they’re free labor, that’s the deal!
You just need to increase your offer to 2 butt lights
- Moving $30 IKEA furniture to the trash before you pack up what’s basically six pieces of large luggage
Pizza and beer at the end of the night
- Moving a $25k piano to your McMansion in the suburbs
Get a professional
Last move was was a full house, 900 miles. I had started the new job 2 months before and was flying home on the weekends to my wife and 2 kids.
We hired a young college kid who was on summer break to help us pack up for 2 weeks. She got pretty much everything I to boxes. We then had a regular shipping company drop off a semi box trailer. We hired 3 movers to load everything from the house and pack it into the trailer.
The trucking company drove the trailer up to our current place. We hired an other 3 movers to unload the trailer.
All together it was around 1/4 the price of what the moving companies quotes where asking. Hell it was only a few hundred bucks more than the u-haul rental would have been.
Good hack! It’s like the difference on price between event catering for a birthday, and event catering for a wedding.
“Moving house” is a rare occurrence, so they can charge a premium. “Load a truck with boxes” could be anything, and doesn’t attract the same overhead.
Your*
Lift with your legs ffs
Unless it’s a bar on your shoulders, your back is going to be engaged at least a little (and even then a lifting belt is recommended for heavier weights).
But training your core and buying a back support brace is a good idea for anyone.
People need to be doing deadlifts for longevity.
There’s no reason a 35 year old should be hesitant about manual labour.
Yeah, I lift but I’m not spectacularly strong or anything and I move my parents out practically by myself when I was 35.
Agreed. My back and posture have been so much better since I started doing deadlifts.
I strongly suspect the mysterious stress fracture of my fifth metatarsal began with my grueling move last year. It wasn’t a month or two later that the pain came on and the entire ordeal took root. Over a year later and I’m still weathering the chronic pain. The fracture got better but the pain did not.
“You are friends are too old.”
I mean, the grammar might be wrong, but I am friends and I am too old.
I am even more older and I can’t English. So the meme checks out.
At least it has some novelty rather than the usual misuse of “your.”
If you’re over 35, just pay for AI spellcheck. Your English teachers are too old. Nobody wants to correct your 5th grade grammar mistakes for the 635th time for a groan and a raised eyebrow.
I paid for movers my last two moves. It was expensive, but if you can afford it, it’s totally worth it in my opinion. Instead of the move taking a whole weekend it was done in half a day both times.
And it’s true: nobody wants to help with that shit. My friends offered, but the relief on their faces when I told them there was no need, was clearly visible.
A small part of me was relieved as well when a family member decided to pay for movers, and after meticulous research into the best reviewed moving company, the shitshow that was 2 amateurs wrecking multiple furniture items despite clear instructions, taking an hour for a 15 minute driving, and slacking off; only putting more work into it and contacting the company to get compensated for it, was so incredibly not worth it. But in theory, and if it works out in practise, sure.
You don’t know me, stop talking about my life. You’re just a horse.
I mean, sure I would be relieved myself as well, I don’t want to do labour if I can avoid it
But that still doesn’t mean I don’t want to do it for ny friends and only do it out of a sense of obligation or anything. I genuinely want to help, and make life easier for the people I care about, even if it’s a bother from my end
I straight up don’t want to do it, even for my friends. But since they are my friends I would do it anyway. I’d definitely rather they paid for movers though.
I think we’ve also crossed that age threshold while in our current house and will hire pros next time, but I will say, our last move we did with friends and it was also done and dusted in half a day because we had everything prepared pretty good and the folks that helped us out didn’t fuck around. Took two trips with the big rental van and about 4h total I think.
At some point I noticed I was getting injured every time we moved so we started saving up money for movers.
I’m in the moving industry. People over 35 are moving themselves. This is post is full of it. Household moving is dead. At least in my region.
Who the hell can afford it? Boomers, mostly, that aren’t selling their homes anyways
I paid for movers when I moved into my house, but I’m a mid thirties dude with health problems and two partners who are worse off than I am physically. With what I paid to be able to get a house (and admittedly I’m privileged enough to be able to save and purchase it), it was a rounding error to hire movers. Not even $1000 for 2 dudes to move all of my shit from 2 apartments to a house and moved a bunch of heavy furniture up or down flights of stairs.
Paying even $1000 in exchange for not being in agony for months after we moved was a price well paid.
Boomers with too much money really are to blame for everything 😂
I don’t know. I’m in the commercial furniture side of it.
I’m assuning very different region than in NYC. I see moving trucks all over every month. Companies like Man With a Van or Piece of Cake seem to be expanding more and more.
I’m bad at the planning so I’ve paid for it. With an hours notice it’s more than worth it.
Do both. Movers for the big items, friends to help with logistics and for smaller stuff. Moving sucks and having friends around even just for support is awesome.
This. I’m smack in the middle of prepping for this. A friend came out and visited and helped me start boxing. I have another who’s coming out to drive the truck. I could but he’s got his CDL and is willing to do it.
Getting movers that drive the truck out of town is expensive, but in town, or just some big dudes to load/unload is much less. Everyone’s financial situation is different but I was shocked at how different the price of those two categories was.
Yeeeeah, out of town moves often = add an extra zero to the price.
That makes sense but also it seems like you just like adding extra round characters to the end of things.
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The local liquor store will be happy to give you as many boxes as you want. Crushing those things is the worst part of the clerk’s day.
You can use clothing as padding for dishes. Saves space and you don’t have to throw out the old paper/packing peanuts you would have used.
Make two sets of keys before you move in.
Same for grocery stores where I’m from. Liquor stores are less common here of course since grocery stores can sell Liquor too.
Pivot! Pivot! PIVOT!
I’m 43 and I threw my back out for the first time in my life a little over a week ago. I did it putting on shoes. I was out of commission for 3 days.
For me the first time was when I just sat down wrong. I started lifting weights and I’ve been fine since. Can highly recommend. I only wish I’d started sooner.
We joked 5 yrs back about having to buddy up to get ski boots on. We’re now working out the rota!
