Legitimate extra money is always good.
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Spike's Bitches 48: I Say, We Go Out There, and Kick a Little Demon Ass.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
I'm pretty sure I can't drive a U-Haul. I'm also hiring the movers to pack a lot of my stuff -- I know from experience that, while I'm OK with getting the stuff into the boxes, I'm not able to move the boxes around after they're full, which kind of limits how much packing I can do myself.
I'm pretty sure I can't drive a U-Haul.
I've driven a big U-Haul before. It was an adventure. In conclusion, don't.
Do you have any vacation or sick time you can cash out?
Nope. I don't have vacation or sick days like that.
Having movers pack me and move me was the Best Thing Ever when I moved to Seattle. I did a lot of preparation and sorting and stuff, but they packed me so quickly!
Having someone pack is so awesome if you can afford it, and obviously a necessity for some people.
If we ever move again we're hiring people to pack. It's just too hard.
It's more added stress at an already stressful time.
My parents said they'd help pay, but they want a few more estimates, which is reasonable. Except that I've already called every mover around here who does interstate moves, and this was the only one that got back to me and had time available in July. So then my mother started looking up movers online and calling them to get estimates, and found someone in Florida that contracts out to local people. So I talked to that guy, and he gave me an estimate that was a lot cheaper, but I looked them up online, and there are hundreds of reviews of them, all terrible. So, no. I think that the estimate that I got is really over-estimating the total weight (I looked up some stuff about approximate weight for different size apartments, and even considering that I have a whole lot of books, his estimate was pretty high), so I emailed to ask if I'd pay based on the actual weight or the estimated weight.