Re:A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich Peop...
by jseliger on Friday September 22, 2017 @02:39PM
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When I moved to New York, I - like an idiot - brought a full set of very heavy bedroom furniture with me
There's an interesting startup called Campaign Living: https://www.campaignliving.com that's trying to solve some of this problem by making furniture that looks good and can be disassembled quickly and easily. I wish I'd bought one of their couches instead of the one I got.
Re:A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich Peop...
by pavel_lishin on Friday September 22, 2017 @05:19PM
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There's definitely a market place for that - one of the problems with disassemblable IKEA furniture is that it only survives so many moves. There's a good possibility that our current bed might survive being disassembled, but not being reassembled in our next move.
Re:A High-End Mover Dishes on Truckstop Hierarchy, Rich Peop...
by enobrev on Friday September 22, 2017 @09:47PM
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I did the same thing when I moved to NY in 1999. I don't think I could have afforded to replace a whole living room at the time, even at IKEA rates (my job paid for the UHaul).
That furniture lasted one more move, from Staten Island to Bushwick, Brooklyn, two years later. Probably worth it, but I've moved across the country four more times since then, and I've never moved anything I couldn't fit in a box since that move to Brooklyn.
When I moved to New York, I - like an idiot - brought a full set of very heavy bedroom furniture with me. It probably cost me more to rent the bigger UHaul than it would have to replace it with IKEA products - and would definitely have been cheaper to just not have a bunch of furniture cluttering the place up.
As I recall, it all ended up on the street - although it was gone within a day, so I hope someone's enjoying my "donation".