4 Reasons Not to do a DIY Move
The average American moves more than 11 times in
their lives. In your twenties, a move usually means cramming your car full of
repurposed beer boxes, milk-crates and a garbage bag or two full of clothes.
But, we all have to grow up sometime. And there are plenty of good reasons not
hire movers rather than carting your
stuff all over the universe by yourself. Here are four of them.
1. Stuff Can Break
As you grow up, you end up with a few things you would rather not trust to your butterfingered, but well-intentioned friends. Perhaps it is that vintage stereo you cobbled together, or some antique furniture that your old Aunt Lucile passed on to you. Whatever it is, you don’t want it crammed in the back of a sedan or crumpled in a pile at the bottom of a flight of stairs.
While your stuff has been lying safely in repose in your pad for months or years, it is only as permanent as a drop or a stumble. Trusting professional movers who know how to package, handle and transport your stuff can be a load off your mind … and your back.
2. You can Break
Speaking of backs, injuring yours can be a real show-stopper. Back injuries make up the largest share of injury-related time off Americans take every year. Lift with your legs is a good mantra, but it isn’t the whole picture.
While many people try to stay fit, few of us are as fit as we think we are. What is more, being able to run a marathon or pump some iron in the gym doesn’t always transfer into the unique kinds of strength necessary to muscle a credenza down a narrow flight of stairs. Or three.
Better to leave the heavy lifting to moving companies who get paid for it. That way, if someone ends up straining a serratus posterior inferior, they are on their own insurance. Besides, where are you going to lay down to rest if your couch is strapped to the top of a Toyota Camry?
3. Motels are not that much fun.
Long-distance moves are a hassle. Let’s say you actually want to move out of the city. There is actually a world outside the Tri-State area, and it can be pretty vast. Unless you want to be sleeping in a string of motels from here to the Pacific, letting a moving company do the job is the answer. Besides, while you have great friends, not many people will let you borrow their minivan for two weeks straight. And then you have to drive that van back.
4. Life is Short.
There isn’t much time in a weekend, or in a life. You have your new place, and are excited to get there and set up shop. You don’t have that much time before you are going to be back at your office, and you probably don’t want to spend it hauling your stuff around town, or across the state. What is more, time is money. If you are missing time at work to lug your books and blankets around, you are losing money. Better to pay someone else to do that job so you can get back to yours.
So whether it is time, money, or the simple fact that moving isn’t that much fun, you are better off letting a moving company handle the heavy lifting of your next relocation.
1. Stuff Can Break
As you grow up, you end up with a few things you would rather not trust to your butterfingered, but well-intentioned friends. Perhaps it is that vintage stereo you cobbled together, or some antique furniture that your old Aunt Lucile passed on to you. Whatever it is, you don’t want it crammed in the back of a sedan or crumpled in a pile at the bottom of a flight of stairs.
While your stuff has been lying safely in repose in your pad for months or years, it is only as permanent as a drop or a stumble. Trusting professional movers who know how to package, handle and transport your stuff can be a load off your mind … and your back.
2. You can Break
Speaking of backs, injuring yours can be a real show-stopper. Back injuries make up the largest share of injury-related time off Americans take every year. Lift with your legs is a good mantra, but it isn’t the whole picture.
While many people try to stay fit, few of us are as fit as we think we are. What is more, being able to run a marathon or pump some iron in the gym doesn’t always transfer into the unique kinds of strength necessary to muscle a credenza down a narrow flight of stairs. Or three.
Better to leave the heavy lifting to moving companies who get paid for it. That way, if someone ends up straining a serratus posterior inferior, they are on their own insurance. Besides, where are you going to lay down to rest if your couch is strapped to the top of a Toyota Camry?
3. Motels are not that much fun.
Long-distance moves are a hassle. Let’s say you actually want to move out of the city. There is actually a world outside the Tri-State area, and it can be pretty vast. Unless you want to be sleeping in a string of motels from here to the Pacific, letting a moving company do the job is the answer. Besides, while you have great friends, not many people will let you borrow their minivan for two weeks straight. And then you have to drive that van back.
4. Life is Short.
There isn’t much time in a weekend, or in a life. You have your new place, and are excited to get there and set up shop. You don’t have that much time before you are going to be back at your office, and you probably don’t want to spend it hauling your stuff around town, or across the state. What is more, time is money. If you are missing time at work to lug your books and blankets around, you are losing money. Better to pay someone else to do that job so you can get back to yours.
So whether it is time, money, or the simple fact that moving isn’t that much fun, you are better off letting a moving company handle the heavy lifting of your next relocation.
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