I'm glad we never could afford to hire movers. We packed and moved our own and the stuff all survived. When I was a child tho, my Dad's company paid for our family to be moved to another state, and the movers not only manhandled everything, they STOLE. I had a Hummel Ba-Bee Ring (a bust of a baby encircled in a ring with a bee perched on it, that hangs on the wall...)a signed Hummel that had been bought when I was born, and one of the movers was smart enough to know it was valuable. It was never found once we unpacked. I wonder what else they got. My folks had so much stuff they would probably never miss half of it. I don't trust strangers to come into my home and do ANYTHING, including clean...