I did that when I moved and it was very convenient but I was disproportionately angry that it cost me a dollar!
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 June 2011 20:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesse OTM, hiring movers and end-of-lease cleaners means saving one's sanity. I only didnt need a mover last move as I moved three doors down, so we could to it all with 2 mates and a trolley but this time, no way,every last item is going into a box, and someone else is doing it. My move in 2008 was so traumatic (ever tried to pack and clean up EIGHT YEARS of pack-ratty endless mess? Ugh) and I never wanna do that again.
One good thing is the place I am in now is so bereft of storage (apart from one room with a small wardrobe there is none), most of my shit is still IN boxes haha.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Sunday, 26 June 2011 22:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Me too, Abbott. At least the first time. Now I'm not sure why it bothered me.
― o_O the humanity (Jesse), Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I did this just a few days ago. Turns out the first google search result for "post office online change of address" is NOT an official USPS site, although it looks like it is, and at the end they charge you $5.99 fee.
buttheads!
― Z S, Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Because it costs a dollar to do on the online something that is FREE off the online! Gets to me because I'm a cheap bastard! Why pay for something you can do for free???
xp
― I'll show you the power of laughter! (Abbbottt), Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Waiting in the post office costs a chunk of your soul ;_;
― Jaq, Sunday, 26 June 2011 23:24 (thirteen years ago) link
So I accidentally found a place that rents out boxes and other moving supplies! It is called rentourboxes.com! You order online and they drop the stuff off at your place whenever you like, then come collect them from the new place. Cheaper than buying and very convenient. And eco-friendly(er).
I know I could be scavenging boxes from the liquor store dumpster or trawling Craigslist, but so much shit is going on right now that this seems worth some dough.
Not that our home seller's agent is threatening to "sue everyone" at this point because we need to close two days later than expected, so I could be living in said boxes if things fall through.
― quincie, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm, nice! Will have to keep that in mind next time (hopefully not for a long while).
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 28 June 2011 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Wow. Great news!
Oh. I typed that only after reading the part about the boxes, so, addendum: Terrible news!
― o_O the humanity (Jesse), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
On this move I got really lucky that a pet supply store opened 1 block away 3 weeks ago. I got there on opening day and scored 20-25 perfectly-sized boxes. Additionally, my current building has about 200 units and lots of people moving in, so the trash room is full of boxes.
Last time I bought a lot of them. Not that expensive, but it really bugged me! Like the Abbott and the $1 address change charge.
― o_O the humanity (Jesse), Tuesday, 28 June 2011 23:42 (thirteen years ago) link
I bought a bunch of flat-packed admin style boxes from Officeworks, they come in packs of 10, 30 was enough for my stuff. Most of its still in them. NO idea what is where. LOL.
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Wednesday, 29 June 2011 00:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Completely packed and waiting for the movers who are running 10 minutes late. The weatherman said yesterday that it was going to be 98 today, but Forecastfox says 90. Our weather guy is a drama/ratings queen, so I trust FF.
― Jesse, Friday, 1 July 2011 13:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Screw forecastfox!
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 1 July 2011 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
under two weeks now. bought some b0xes yesterday. i'm chillin for the most part. #idiocy
― pearsonic, Friday, 1 July 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Moved. $30 over budget, but they had to carry a behemoth bed base up 6 flights bc it wouldn't fit in either elevator ;__; felt bad for them! That fucker is well over 200 lbs.
― Jesse, Friday, 1 July 2011 16:52 (thirteen years ago) link
were they like "couldnt you have a lighter fecking bed base you arse!?"
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Friday, 1 July 2011 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
New neighbours were moving in this morning as I slept one off. Groan.
― fields of salmon, Friday, 1 July 2011 17:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Were they that loud? How loud does moving have to be?
I'll tell you one thing - if* I ever move again, I'm taking that bed apart and throwing it away (I don't think I can disassemble and reassemble it) b/c no one needs to go through that again.
It's this kind of bed base, by the way, that's why it weighs so much. Amazing storage!
http://x-land.org/_cache/Chauffage%20Piscine/img/gn_articles_Malm%20Ikea_0_1.jpg
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, the lid is spring-loaded, so it kept popping open on them! Gah.
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
I am not yet a real grown up but when I become one I am not going to buy any furniture that cannot be disassembled and/or set on fire.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
oh it can all be set on fire
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahaha.
I think that the usual thing that goes with being "grownup" is having furniture that CAN'T be disassembled. Ikea is pretty 20-something-ish.
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:24 (thirteen years ago) link
after a brief interregnum i once again own nothing that i cannot, in theory, move by myself.
in theory, this is cool, but maybe less so in practice
― mookieproof, Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:28 (thirteen years ago) link
xp I'm so not real a grown up I just graduated from college and am living at home from my parents, a studio full of untreated pine Ikea furniture is my current aspiration.
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
*with my parents, typing is hard
― T.S. Eliot-themed roach fetish porn (silby), Sunday, 3 July 2011 04:51 (thirteen years ago) link
a. and i are doing a 2-mile move (technically, 1.7 miles!) mid-month. we've been writing around for moving company estimates but no responses yet. we actually have very little furniture, and some of the more fragile/meaningful items we'll bring over ourselves. we used u-haul last time, and that ended up costing $100 and being a pain in the butt. i'm ready to be an adult and hire a fucking mover.
― don't believe the HYP (get bent), Sunday, 3 July 2011 07:45 (thirteen years ago) link
1. How old are you? ("you" = plural, stupid English)
2. Where do you live?
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, my move was .10 mile
http://i.imgur.com/T4Lsr.png
(freebie for my stalker(s))
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
4 = house I've been renting for the last 5 years2 = house I'm buying, to move into at the beginning of September
Distance between the two doorbells = 110 cm (43 inches)
But still, everything's got to be packed, all papers & formalities have to be changed - pretty ridiculous, but anyway.
http://i51.tinypic.com/rvvt40.jpg
― StanM, Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:17 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess I needed a bigger mailbox.
― StanM, Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
ha. just smash the shared wall down and shove everything through. i once considered moving next door but it seemed too inherently ridiculous to bother with even though it was a better house than my own. now instead i'm moving 400 miles come september, no idea how i'm going to work out the logistics of that one. \o/
― Sir Chips Keswick (Merdeyeux), Sunday, 3 July 2011 11:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Good idea, but I can't, I don't own the house on the left! (would you believe I even asked the owner? :-) )
― StanM, Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
1. How old are you? ("you" = plural, stupid English)2. Where do you live?
the bf and i are mid/late thirties and live in los angeles -- we're moving from north hollywood just down the road into studio city, a 5-to-10 minute drive.
― don't believe the HYP (get bent), Sunday, 3 July 2011 12:59 (thirteen years ago) link
A walking distance move is not easier to the extent one might think. The only advantage is that it saves the step of loading and unloading the truck. Which is huge, of course, but there are other huge steps, too. Also saves the driving time.
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Currently about 50% packed. The main problem with the remaining 50% is that it is not yet clear if we move on Wednesday (two days away)or Sunday (6 days away). If it is Wednesday, I can continue to live in my pajamas and eat take out until set up in the new place. If it is Sunday, I have to be organized enough have work clothes and other daily living stuff set aside. I suppose I should just pack a suitcase and pretend I am living out of a hotel on a business trip?
― quincie, Sunday, 3 July 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
A hotel full of boxes and little else, that is.
That is a sensible thing to do.
― Jesse, Sunday, 3 July 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
the company we're going with wants $285 for a 16-ft. van, 2 guys, and a 3-hour minimum, gratuity not included. we don't need all 3 hours, probably half that, but i guess it's good to over-budget for unforeseen problems. they're coming on a monday in the middle of the month, so there's probably not much negotiating beyond the quoted rate at this point.
― don't believe the HYP (get bent), Sunday, 3 July 2011 22:52 (thirteen years ago) link
That seems reasonable. The company I used charged $85/hr for a 3-person crew, 3 hr minimum, +$42 for the truck and equipment, which comes to $297 + grat. Research showed that $10 per person per hour is the standard base gratuity. It took 3.5 hours, due to the new place being on the 6th floor.
― Jesse, Monday, 4 July 2011 01:24 (thirteen years ago) link
Jesus, I hired two guys who charged $60 an hour, no additional fees for their travel or the use of the truck, and they were done in 3 hours INCLUDING driving time. Wtf people? NB: my old apt was also on the 6th floor but it was an elevator building; also, I did a lot of prep for them thanks to said elevator, which allowed me to push stacks of boxes into it and deposit them in the lobby, ready to be loaded up. I figure I had 9/10ths of the boxes already downstairs when they got there, so they mostly just moved furniture.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Monday, 4 July 2011 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahah Stan I thought I was the only nutter who did things like move 2 feet away (I have moved across the rd, and 2 doors down, in the past)
― Bloompsday (Trayce), Monday, 4 July 2011 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
My new building has an elevator (no fucking way I'm living in a 6th floor walk-up!) and I was on the ground level at the old place, but due to a scheduling problem, I had to move in while the former tenant was moving out, which slowed us down.
Trayce, I moved across the hall once, and this time 1/2 block (.10 mile). It seems like for all the hassle I should have some distance to show for it, but I like my hood and the new places were considerably better.
Loving the new place - they kept most of the vintage structure and fixtures (nice stained wooden door and window frames, cool plaster walls, marble lobby) but added dishwasher, new windows and whatnot.
― Jesse, Monday, 4 July 2011 05:40 (thirteen years ago) link
are there any "nude moving companies"?
― coffeetripperspillerslyricmakeruppers (Latham Green), Monday, 4 July 2011 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Not everything you see in porn movies is true, Latham Green.
― StanM, Monday, 4 July 2011 14:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally closed the real estate deal from hell! Result is house we love at a fair market price, though from her demeanor it seems the seller thinks we stole her damn house from her.
Moving happens Monday and will involve consolidation of BOTH the mister's and my places. It will be a long week, but at least we'll have it over with in one fell swoop.
― quincie, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:42 (thirteen years ago) link
oops sorry for the double post.
― quincie, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
I moved on Friday and it was so frigging hot in Missouri I thought I was going to puke.Got it all done, though. Feeling good in the new place.
― Trip Maker, Tuesday, 5 July 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
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These are all better than quotes I've gotten -- anyone want to let me in on the names (assuming NYC)?
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