Spike ,'Sleeper'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
in spite of the fact that it said "4th floor walk-up" on EVERY FREAKING PAGE
We had friends move us from a third-floor walk-up to a fifth-floor walk-up in Manhattan once. I think I promised them our firstborn.
I was also really glad we hadn't chosen the sixth-floor walk-up after that move.
My move was about $500, and I tipped ...a lot, I think. Maybe too much. But seriously the cheapest bid, they broke NOTHING, there was a moving truck snafu on the part of UHaul, and they fought that out and were still on time, had to carry down 3 flights, up my front steps, and then there was the heavy stuff to go on the second floor. And it was a freakish 95 in April (hrm, sounds familiar.) And it was pretty much done in some thing ridiculous, like 3 or 4 hours.
javachick sent me on a trip down memory lane, 14 years ago.
We used strong-backed relatives to load a one-way truck and towed our car cross-country. And then we hired "a guy" and "a buddy of his" for $60 plus $25 tip for both (not each) to unload the heavy stuff off the truck. They were fast and super-careful, and put everything right where we said to.
The second load was H's van packed to the gills and a tow-along trailer, ditto, which we unloaded ourselves.
But there was the cost of gas and motels for seven-eight nights cross-country, both trips, offset by the overnight stays with kind Buffistas with parking space.
I'm still cranky about the movers my folks hired to move them to CA from FL; they packed really badly, so we ended up with a bunch of the 90-year-old china broken. They didn't re-install the mirrors above the dressers, so those are still propped against the wall. And my mother's convinced a bunch of her clothing got lost.
I am not looking forward to moving, but am looking forward to having moved; there is too much police activity on this street.
Has anyone ever worked as a temp for Manpower?
Long ago.
We used movingscam.com to choose our movers, and they were fast and efficient.
Yay, dinner is first artichokes of the season. Cooked with java's lemons.
I hate movers. They stress me.
I hate movers. They stress me.
I hate movers. They broke a lot of my stuff. And charged more than they were supposed to.
But I love artichokes. So I am going to focus on potential future nummy vegetables and not past moving trauma.