Moving house: organize it yourself or trust a specialist?
Ten years ago my husband and I bought a new apartment. The apartment had been under construction for a long time, we paid our dues diligently, and we were looking forward to moving in. And now, the big day had arrived! Organizing the move on our own At that time in our small country town nobody had even heard of moving companies. And we, of course, decided to organize the apartment move by ourselves. The first question that stumped us was "where to get boxes to pack things?" We had to run around to acquaintances. And since we were both working, we only had weekends left to search, and our urgent move was postponed for another full week. The next problem was transportation. Fortunately our good friend had an old Gazelle. We had agreed in advance that he would come up on Saturday at 10 am. But on that day a friend called and said that the car broke down, and unfortunately he couldn't help us today, and asked to move the date to tomorrow. Of course my husband and I...