Lift with your legs ffs
Unless it’s a bar on your shoulders, your back is going to be engaged at least a little (and even then a lifting belt is recommended for heavier weights).
But training your core and buying a back support brace is a good idea for anyone.
People need to be doing deadlifts for longevity.
There’s no reason a 35 year old should be hesitant about manual labour.
Agreed. My back and posture have been so much better since I started doing deadlifts.
Yeah, I lift but I’m not spectacularly strong or anything and I move my parents out practically by myself when I was 35.
Well, that’s made me feel stronger and healthier (and perhaps younger) than I was!
I got massively confused over what “hire movers” were, and how youd get to 35.
If the cumulative “you” >= 35 qty. movers of the hire variety…
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!
For me the first time was when I just sat down wrong. I started lifting weights and I’ve been fine since. Can highly recommend. I only wish I’d started sooner.
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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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.
Same for grocery stores where I’m from. Liquor stores are less common here of course since grocery stores can sell Liquor too.
You just need to increase your offer to 2 butt lights
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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.
Boomers with too much money really are to blame for everything 😂
I don’t know. I’m in the commercial furniture side of it.
I’m assuning very different region than in NYC. I see moving trucks all over every month. Companies like Man With a Van or Piece of Cake seem to be expanding more and more.
- 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 $25k piano to your McMansion in the suburbs
Get a professional
I hired movers for my last move. Best 300$ I ever spent.
I did not and I regretted it for a week after =(
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.
Some of my friends are younger than I and forget this shit.
Why move in an afternoon when you can turn it in to a month long ordeal?
