The Expensive Costs of Moving

Posted in Deals & Savings, Life, Luxury by Elliott Back on August 2nd, 2006.

Moving to a new place has a lot of hidden expenses:

$260 for miscellanious shipping expenses. I mailed myself 15 boxes at an average cost of $17.33 a box. Most of the contents were books, and assuming an average weight of 12 lb / box, I learned later I could have sent them media mail at $13 / 30 lb. That would have cost me a mere $78.

$80 for Amazon prime membership. I wanted to purchase some basic supplies from Amazon, because I don’t yet have a car and can only carry so much home. A prime membership for free, fast shippin will be cheaper in the long run than paying for shipping, and more convenient.

$35 for a taxi from the airport to my house. I can’t avoid this one.

$700 for a queen bed frame, box spring, and mattress. As far as furniture goes, I wanted a nice frame and got one. Also, the firm I purchased the bed from does free delivery to my home, and installation. It’s a win/win since I need to buy some kind of bed. The only way I could have saved would be a cheaper raised matress without a box spring, which reduce the cost by about half, but result in an aesthetically unpleasing sleep and bedroom experience.

$165 for bedding, including two pillows, sheets, pillowcases, and a comforter. The comforter weighs in at over 50% of the cost of the bedding, and was the cheapest I could find.

$289 for pots, pans, place settings for four, silverware, glasses, a toaster, and a cutting board and 2 small knives. I really did buy the cheapest pots I could, but the silverware, glasses, and everything else sold high.

The lesson of all of it, I suppose, is that one should be careful when they move to preserve their belongings. For example, unless I have more than two kids, I shouldn’t need to buy too many more place settings in the future. And, moving would be cheaper and easier in the future by simply renting a cheap truck, packing it up, and driving to wherever I’ll be living next.

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