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"You are friends are too old."

• 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

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.

Lift with your legs ffs

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.

You just need to increase your offer to 2 butt lights

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.

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.

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.

Your*

Am I a bad person for not wanting to help my friends move as long as I expect no help when I move?

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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.

Last time I moved at age 50+ I recruited my brother and his 5 sons to get s 3bdrm house emptied in two passes

What if there's literally only one object of any significant weight?

Why move in an afternoon when you can turn it in to a month long ordeal?

Im over 35 and I gladly help with moving when asked. But I make clear what I consider my limits, and that I will leave if it's an unorganized mess and we basically dig through rubble.

Also, Im not helping with the piano.

you people are weak as fuck

I hired movers for my last move. Best 300$ I ever spent.

Well, that's made me feel stronger and healthier (and perhaps younger) than I was!

How about no. It's a good reason to get together and I don't have that much shit.

I got massively confused over what “hire movers” were, and how youd get to 35.

Some of my friends are younger than I and forget this shit.

Now that I have a house I never plan on moving. Before I had a house I owned so little that moving was trivial.