It’s not 100% firm yet but it’s looking like I’m going to be loading a moving truck on June 23 (a Saturday). I will buy pizza and beverages and bake cookies or whatever I need to do in the way of bribes to get people to help. Don’t know what time yet and like I said, not completely confirmed yet on the date.
Anybody feeling masochistic enough to help a gal lug lots of heavy shit into a big metal truck in the sweltering sun? (Crap, that probably wasn’t the right angle to take… I suck at marketing…)
Ah I know! My community has a pool and we can all go swimming after the truck is loaded! Plus beer/soda/water/juice/whatever (I will take requests, honest) and pizza and/or other food… plus… I dunno, I’ll chip in gas money for driving out here if you want.
(Fortunately my boyfriend is in charge of enlisting help on the Cleveland, OH end of the move…I think I suck at this)
A Saturday? Hell yeas. I wouldn’t even ask for pizza, but if it is there…
I’ve lived in Texas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia. With the last two, I’ve lived in… oh, say, 5 different places together. I’m not even 20 yet. I know my way around a move.
Also, on campus I can probably get you a ton of cardboard boxes. Are you inside the loop, as in you actually live in “Atlanta”?
You should have called it a Dopefest and then just mentioned the box moving in passing.
Like “Atlanta Dopefest!!! BEER!! PIZZA!!! POOL!!!” June 23rd! Be there!!! I’m having a huge party and will supply beer and food to all who come! Let’s get together and have a great time. Oh, and maybe later we’ll probably move my apartment into a U-Haul or something. Who knows.
No, I’m up 75 at the Wade Green exit. I live about 2.5 miles from the Kennesaw State U campus. I think I’m ok for boxes, but I appreciate the offer. (I’d better have already finished packing by that day anyway! Heh)
Heh…sneaky…I like the way you think. (Unfortunately it’s a whole 3 bedroom house, not just an apartment… which is why I need to bribe all the help I can get)
Change of plan. It’s looking like it’s going to work out much better to do it the following weekend, which would be June 30. (Dan is worried about getting a plane ticket with less than two weeks to go, plus if he’s coming to town he doesn’t want to come the weekend that his parents and one brother are out of town, which they would be on the 22nd)
So new (yet still tentative) date is JUNE 30 for truck loading. I mean, uh, big dopefest party with beer! pizza! a pool! And also loading a truck.
Ahh,. memories of younger years when you need to try and bribe friends with pizza to move your junk.
I like the grown up way better because I don’t feel bad telling the movers where to move my shit while I sit on my ass and eat the pizza (although the grown up way costs a bit more).
Well I’m 35, and most people at my stage in life could probably do that (in 2001 when my ex-husband and I moved into the townhouse we bought, we paid movers, for example)… but being a single mom who has gone back to school full time because shockingly, nobody wants to hire you for the big bucks when you spent the previous 10 years as a stay-home-mom… well, finances just aren’t there to pay movers.
(I’m trying really, really hard here not to be offended at the obvious implication that I’m not “a grown up” because I can’t afford to pay a moving company)
No, no, no. Of course I didn’t mean anything by saying hiring people to move your home is more “grown up”. You’re 35 and a student with a kid. You do what you can.
What I do wonder is why ask the SDMB for moving help? Why don’t you ask your friends?
I don’t know about you but I couldn’t pick 99.9% of Dopers out of a line up. I would feel weird asking people I don’t know (outside of text on the screen of my computer) to sweat for me in exchange for triangle food items.
But that’s me. I’ve never been known for my manners.
Because I’ve only lived in Atlanta for 2 years and I know virtually nobody here? Because most of my friends live in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington DC? Because most of the people I know in Atlanta ARE the people I’ve met from the SDMB? Also you seem to be assuming I’m not asking anybody else, which isn’t true. I’m asking my boyfriend’s brothers, for example.
I’ve been in Denver for fifteen years, am completely anti-social, and have no friends, yet a co-worker, a co-worker’s brother, and a co-worker’s daughter’s boyfriend have agreed to help load my U-Haul. 'Course, I’ve also agreed to give them some money. There comes a time when one outgrows, or one’s back gives out on, the “let’s all get together and move X” idea. That tends to happen about the same time X acquires 1/2 ton sofas and three bedroom houses.
I’m a single parent & full time student living on student loans. I don’t have enough money to offer any real “wage-to-make-it-worth-it” type of cash, I could afford to give people gas money, no problem. If I could afford to pay people to move my stuff, I would be hiring movers. It sucks, but it is where I am in my life right now. I’m not sure what I’m supposed to do…? I am not physically strong enough to move things like couches and televisions into a moving truck. I can’t do it by myself. I know a couple of girls from school, but I don’t think they would be much good at it either–and one of them I know works weekends so she couldn’t do it anyway. I know several of the dopers in the Atlanta area… at least as well as I know anyone else around here, but I’d rather make a post and let people volunteer if they feel like it rather than putting them on the spot by contacting them individually, which might make them feel pressured into it. I have asked the few people I know “in real life”, I’m just also asking on here, in case any of my friends here are willing to help. I guess I could try to get a cash advance on a credit card and try to pay everybody…? Would that make it morally “okay” to ask for help? I dunno, see, for me I’d help a friend move just because they’re a friend and they need help–I have done it before and I’d do it again if someone asked. I didn’t realize that it was so unacceptable to be at this stage of life [college student] at my age.
Anyway, we have officially scheduled the truck for June 30. If anybody can help, that would be great, just tell me how much money you want and I will try to figure out a way to come up with it by then, and if I can’t I will let you know so you don’t have to come.
I’m sorry if this may come across as whiny or something. I’m just very frustrated and overwhelmed by this whole process of moving, trying to sell a house, trying to sell a van, trying to sort through everything I own and choose what to discard, finding a new place to live in another state, etc. It’s already made me come really close to crying at least a dozen times, and I’m already fighting a whole pile of inadequacy issues with my life without the addition of feeling like I’m the scum of the earth for asking for help moving, which has always been a normal part of life in my experience and with the people I’ve known.
Well I’m in Eugene Oregon, but I’ll have my freinds gather in a circle, hold-hands, and wish good will on your move. Actually, it is the exact same help you would get if you lived in Eugene.
Don’t worry about it. Every friend I have that’s moved has asked for help, and we’ve given it. When we moved our four-bedroom house recently, we enlisted family and friends, and got it done. I fed them, and everyone was quite happy with that. For reference, I am 32 and my husband is 46. I think he, at least, is quite grown up.
There are different customs all over. The custom around here is to ask for help. If we had hired professional movers, even though we could have come up with the money, people would have found us a) crazy, because we could have gotten it done for the price of food and b) insanely wasteful. If you’re used to folks asking for help in moving, ask for help, and don’t feel bad about it. I don’t live in Atlanta, so I can’t help, unfortunately.
And everybody else, lay off already. She asked nicely, and if you don’t want to help, don’t help. It’s not necessary to make her feel bad, too.
Is it me, or are threads about whether it’s okay not to hire professional movers nearly as awful as threads about tipping? And with a lot less reason?
