"You are friends are too old."
this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2025
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At least it has some novelty rather than the usual misuse of "your."
I mean, the grammar might be wrong, but I am friends and I am too old.
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I paid for movers my last two moves. It was expensive, but if you can afford it, it's totally worth it in my opinion. Instead of the move taking a whole weekend it was done in half a day both times.
And it's true: nobody wants to help with that shit. My friends offered, but the relief on their faces when I told them there was no need, was clearly visible.
A small part of me was relieved as well when a family member decided to pay for movers, and after meticulous research into the best reviewed moving company, the shitshow that was 2 amateurs wrecking multiple furniture items despite clear instructions, taking an hour for a 15 minute driving, and slacking off; only putting more work into it and contacting the company to get compensated for it, was so incredibly not worth it. But in theory, and if it works out in practise, sure.
You don't know me, stop talking about my life. You're just a horse.
I think we've also crossed that age threshold while in our current house and will hire pros next time, but I will say, our last move we did with friends and it was also done and dusted in half a day because we had everything prepared pretty good and the folks that helped us out didn't fuck around. Took two trips with the big rental van and about 4h total I think.
I mean, sure I would be relieved myself as well, I don't want to do labour if I can avoid it
But that still doesn't mean I don't want to do it for ny friends and only do it out of a sense of obligation or anything. I genuinely want to help, and make life easier for the people I care about, even if it's a bother from my end
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- Moving $30 IKEA furniture to the trash before you pack up what's basically six pieces of large luggage
Pizza and beer at the end of the night
- Moving a $25k piano to your McMansion in the suburbs
Get a professional
I'm 43 and I threw my back out for the first time in my life a little over a week ago. I did it putting on shoes. I was out of commission for 3 days.
We joked 5 yrs back about having to buddy up to get ski boots on. We're now working out the rota!
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Do both. Movers for the big items, friends to help with logistics and for smaller stuff. Moving sucks and having friends around even just for support is awesome.
This. I'm smack in the middle of prepping for this. A friend came out and visited and helped me start boxing. I have another who's coming out to drive the truck. I could but he's got his CDL and is willing to do it.
Getting movers that drive the truck out of town is expensive, but in town, or just some big dudes to load/unload is much less. Everyone's financial situation is different but I was shocked at how different the price of those two categories was.
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Am I a bad person for not wanting to help my friends move as long as I expect no help when I move?
In my opinion, no. You are allowed to have boundaries for whatever reason you want.
Probably.
Last move was was a full house, 900 miles. I had started the new job 2 months before and was flying home on the weekends to my wife and 2 kids.
We hired a young college kid who was on summer break to help us pack up for 2 weeks. She got pretty much everything I to boxes. We then had a regular shipping company drop off a semi box trailer. We hired 3 movers to load everything from the house and pack it into the trailer.
The trucking company drove the trailer up to our current place. We hired an other 3 movers to unload the trailer.
All together it was around 1/4 the price of what the moving companies quotes where asking. Hell it was only a few hundred bucks more than the u-haul rental would have been.
Good hack! It's like the difference on price between event catering for a birthday, and event catering for a wedding.
"Moving house" is a rare occurrence, so they can charge a premium. "Load a truck with boxes" could be anything, and doesn't attract the same overhead.
I’m in the moving industry. People over 35 are moving themselves. This is post is full of it. Household moving is dead. At least in my region.
Who the hell can afford it? Boomers, mostly, that aren't selling their homes anyways
I paid for movers when I moved into my house, but I'm a mid thirties dude with health problems and two partners who are worse off than I am physically. With what I paid to be able to get a house (and admittedly I'm privileged enough to be able to save and purchase it), it was a rounding error to hire movers. Not even $1000 for 2 dudes to move all of my shit from 2 apartments to a house and moved a bunch of heavy furniture up or down flights of stairs.
Paying even $1000 in exchange for not being in agony for months after we moved was a price well paid.
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The local liquor store will be happy to give you as many boxes as you want. Crushing those things is the worst part of the clerk's day.
You can use clothing as padding for dishes. Saves space and you don't have to throw out the old paper/packing peanuts you would have used.
Make two sets of keys before you move in.
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You just need to increase your offer to 2 butt lights
Why move in an afternoon when you can turn it in to a month long ordeal?
Your*
Im over 35 and I gladly help with moving when asked. But I make clear what I consider my limits, and that I will leave if it's an unorganized mess and we basically dig through rubble.
Also, Im not helping with the piano.
you people are weak as fuck
Yeah it's worrying seeing so many people my age claiming that they are falling apart. I'm 35 and my body is fine. The only wonky thing is that my face feels like it sets on fire if I yawn incorrectly, but I'm pretty sure that's a TMJ injury caused from stress clenching rather than age.
The meme's about people having their back in shit shape or that they're basically invalids when they turn 30 are wild. I wonder if the ones memeing about it are 15 and 30 is basically a grandpa or if they're 30 but haven't had a day of exercise in their life.
Maybe we should open more green third spaces and stop policing state forced-breeding programs in athletic spaces.
I don't think there's lack of green third spaces in Finland but the same issue persists.I don't know what you mean by "state forced-breeding programs in athletic spaces"
aw, sorry. Uspol. Enjoy your freedom!
Some of our best labor martyrs were Finnish-Americans.
I just think it will help people relax and focus on their bodies to be somewhere physically healthy they can focus on how being in a body feels, rather than if they're performing body to script enough to not get hsssled while minding their own biz.
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I just turned 40 and I go on 40 mile hikes in the mountains with 10,000 feet elevation gain. I am assuming the people making these comments are sedentary and moving is one of the only times when they actually have to use their bodies.
There's a saying "the less you do, the less you do" that is applicable here.
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I hired movers for my last move. Best 300$ I ever spent.
I did not and I regretted it for a week after =(
Some of my friends are younger than I and forget this shit.
Last time I moved at age 50+ I recruited my brother and his 5 sons to get s 3bdrm house emptied in two passes
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Well, that's made me feel stronger and healthier (and perhaps younger) than I was!
How about no. It's a good reason to get together and I don't have that much shit.
I got massively confused over what “hire movers” were, and how youd get to 35.
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Now that I have a house I never plan on moving. Before I had a house I owned so little that moving was trivial.
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