Paying for movers versus doing it myself as a broke grad…
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Paying for movers versus doing it myself as a broke grad student?
I'm going to be moving in a few weeks and have been consulting different moving companies while also checking out trucks like U-Haul or Home Depot. I don't have a lot of stuff (the largest thing I'd be moving is a loveseat and a wooden bedframe). However, when I moved 2 years ago I remember it being the most miserable day of that year. I don't mind disassembling and reassembling the bedframe but it's a pain to do after all the heavy lifting.
I'm moving less than 30 miles away from a 1st floor to a 3rd floor (with a service elevator). Moving companies have quoted me $700-$800 with the possibility of the job being quick enough to make it around $500. Renting a truck is $200.
I don't have friends to help me move so it might just be my boyfriend and me, with the possibility of *maybe* my best friend if he's free.
Obviously, as a grad student I don't have much money, plus the apartment itself already consuming about half my stipend. Should I just grin and bear it and move everything myself?
#finance
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I'm going to be moving in a few weeks and have been consulting different moving companies while also checking out trucks like U-Haul or Home Depot. I don't have a lot of stuff (the largest thing I'd be moving is a loveseat and a wooden bedframe). However, when I moved 2 years ago I remember it being the most miserable day of that year. I don't mind disassembling and reassembling the bedframe but it's a pain to do after all the heavy lifting.
I'm moving less than 30 miles away from a 1st floor to a 3rd floor (with a service elevator). Moving companies have quoted me $700-$800 with the possibility of the job being quick enough to make it around $500. Renting a truck is $200.
I don't have friends to help me move so it might just be my boyfriend and me, with the possibility of *maybe* my best friend if he's free.
Obviously, as a grad student I don't have much money, plus the apartment itself already consuming about half my stipend. Should I just grin and bear it and move everything myself?
#finance
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