This is a sponsored post for a very cool service that you should know about if you ever plan to move again.
Have I told the story about the mover who spent the ENTIRE day packing up dishes in our first little apartment kitchen?
While his partner packed up the entire-rest-of-the-house?
Did I mention that while he assured me over the phone that he had experience with clients who had lots of dishes, he finally admitted at the end of Moving Day that he had NEVER seen anyone with as many dishes as I had.
It’s possible I got a little scan-happy with the Wedding Registry Scanner.
But when all was said and done, I didn’t mind being called (not really, but it was implied) a Dish Hoarder. Because the fact was . . . we had MOVERS!! Thanks to my parents feeling sorry for their pregnant daughter, we were able to experience the joys of having someone do a lot of the work of moving for us.
Also, my husband has a philosophy about moving. After college, once you get a real job . . . you get one hey-guys-wanna-help-me-move? move. After that, it’s time to hire movers.
He’s pretty passionate about this, having been single (with a truck!) until he was 32. He feels the special pain of a man who has been asked to help someone move sixteen-too-many times.
So, when Unpakt.com asked to sponsor this post about their service for simplifying the process of finding a mover, I said, “Sure!”
I’ve been through the process twice, and it’s stressful. Anything to help ease an already/always high-stress time makes sense to check out.
I’m not moving any time soon (hopefully!), but I did play on the website to see how it works. Honestly . . . it was fun. It’s set up to help you truly figure out what you’re going to need.
This system lets you be very specific about your moving needs, so you can get real quotes, NOT ballpark figures. Like, right then.
When I talked to Mr. Mover Guy over the phone years ago, I obviously didn’t communicate exactly what he was getting into. Our bill ended up being significantly higher than his estimate.
The detailed steps for getting your estimate on Unpakt.com make it possible for them to guarantee the quote. Right. You get exact prices for movers they’ve pre-screened. The only way your price will change is if you edit your inventory or conditions (distance, stairs, etc.)
Please note that in the above picture, the move is 29 miles away and it’s for 263 cubic feet of stuff. Personally, I have a lot more stuff than that!
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Like I said, this is a sponsored post. Unpakt paid me to share their site with you. However, the opinions and dish hoarding confessions are all mine. And . . . if we find that perfect, affordable house with a pool AND a pond, I’ll be heading to Unpakt.com to check out prices for movers.
When I moved 700 miles, I got a discount on my move because I became hysterical when the movers were packing my house and told me they were taking my stuff to a warehouse and had no idea when I’d get it. I had TWO people from the moving company assure me that my furniture would arrive the same day I got to the new house. TWO PEOPLE told me that, and I believed them! In fact, I used them because they siad “guaranteed delivery date” in their ad. I immediately called my rep, crying so hard I could barely talk, and he denied ever saying that. I refused to take that for an answer and kept on him until he promised to try to expedite my actual furniture move. Fortunately, I had somewhere I could crash for the week my furniture was who-knows-where.
If you’ve never moved a long distance, be prepared to NOT have your belongings arrive when you do. Apparently, they hold shipments at a warehouse until they have at least one more delivery for the same area, to make it more cost effective for them.
I’m hoping to eventually downsize enough that I can get everything into a pickup truck (when I go to the old folks home).
I moved from the UK to Canada, lock stock and barrel, a shipping container….I recommend that if you know in advance of a move that you start going through your house, one drawer at a time and have a conversation with each item “are you worth paying someone to pack?” you know that ‘Drawer’ the one that you open and with a sweeping hand motion slide everything into when guests arrive unannounced…the pens that haven’t worked since circa 1982, the pen lids, the paperclips, the old batteries, the random screws, nuts, bolts, the chargers for unknown cell phones or appliances… In reality you are still going to pack stuff you should have dumped!
I highly recommend getting professional moving help, we didn’t have a single item get damaged, and we moved antique furniture, two jukeboxes and a pinball machine, as long with my precious shoe collection! each box was logged with the contents so on arrival in Canada we were able to get those boxes in the rooms they were intended for, it took what could have been an extremely stressful even and made it fun and exciting.
Talk to your ‘movers’ tell them your expectations and requirements, you may need to pay more but you will know that you are getting exactly what you and your ‘stuff’ needs. We had to have specially built crates for some of the furniture to protect them.
I knew someone who moved their belongings from Europe to the US in a shipping container. The container leaked while at sea and filled with water, which then froze. So when their belongings arrived they were in one huge block of ice. The shipping company reimbursed them, but I can’t imagine finding all my belonging in a block of ice.
Oh my word, that is crazy!!!