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[forgotten_aria]

I hope this house is "the one" because the costs are adding up. Moving is almost 3x-4x what I was expecting.

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[testing4l.livejournal.com]

I've always heard that moving ends up being crazy amounts of money, but I've never heard anyone explain why.

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

In my case, mostly man hours because I have a lot of stuff and a lot of weird stuff.

[eub.livejournal.com]

One cause: when I've told movers exactly how many books I had, they clearly didn't really use that to derive any of their estimates.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

I was lucky enough to have movers who respected that the books might be a major contributor to both the amount of lifting and loading and to the final value for the weight of the load so we didn't get a nasty surprise after they visited the scale. They reported that the customs agents were threatening to take the contents out of the van because there must be a car hidden in there.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

getting rid of stuff is the time-honored way of removing costs from a move. :)

[forgotten-aria.livejournal.com]

I'm trying, but no one wants it unless it's free and even then I'm having troubles.

[jadia.livejournal.com]

Big Brother Big Sister will do pickups in Somerville from your porch - I definitely found that useful.

[binkbink.livejournal.com]

Your moving price is about 1/4 what I expected it to be.