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Who will carry my dishwasher up a flight and a half of stairs for me?

silverspeak — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 23:38:44 -0800

I just moved into Seattle, and my new apartment doesn't have a dishwasher. Yesterday I picked up a portable dishwasher I found on Craigslist, but I was too exhausted to carry it up the 1.5 flights up to my apartment. I don't know anybody in town, much less know somebody well enough to ask them to help me carry a dishwasher--does anybody know someone who can carry this thing up the stairs for me? I've looked into a couple moving companies, but they all seem to charge about $20 an hour, which wouldn't be so bad because it won't take very long, except that they charge a $30-$40 flat travel fee to get to my place. Does anybody know any cheaper options? Anybody know somebody who'd like to make an extra 20 bucks?

I hate moving.

chickletworks — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 21:09:58 -0800

I just moved into a new apartment and am having trouble setting up house. Does anyone have a tried-and-true plan of attack for unpacking? There are a lot of great responses to posts about how to pack for a move, but none about how to unpack. Maybe that’s because this is the sort of common sense thing that’s un-“hackable,” but I’m really dreading opening all these boxes this weekend (and it seems like I go through this hassle with every move) so I thought I’d give it a shot.

My new home is a pretty small place (and a share), so I’m in a position where I can’t move around to unpack my boxes until I get the huge framed pictures hung, but I can’t hang the pictures until I move the boxes, and so on. Ugh!

Advice for Moving

CunningLinguist — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 06:41:40 -0800

Moving mistakes? I'm looking for generalized moving advice, apartment to apartment. There are great threads (this one on moving to NY is really a classic) but what about the nuts and bolts of getting things into boxes and out again? What did you screw up last time? What do you know now that I don't yet?