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I just moved from a fully furnished 3 bedroom house into another. I had my fiance and a friend helping but it's definitely doable and way more affordable without hiring movers. It costs me $6500 just to walk into the new rental and I couldn't afford movers at the $1200 they quoted. Here's some tips:

1. If you're moving appliances or anything extremely heavy that you can't do as a regular team lift between two people, buy one of those shoulder lifts. They're about $40ish bucks and they make moving heavy shit really easy

2. Get free cardboard boxes from liquor stores. They're tossing those shits away and they're more than happy to give them to you.

3. Buy large, plastic vacuum sealable laundry bags for clothes, blankets, towels etc.

4. If you have suits, buy closet boxes with the metal rods so you don't fuck your shit up

5. Feed whoever helps you. Feed them well too.

6. Use moving blankets for your wooden furniture, couch, etc.

Took us 4 hours to move. Movers quoted us 6.