Is something wrong with me?
01-30-2011, 09:00 AM
#92
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No I think you are being very reasonable. We quilters have a lot of pride and protection towards our craft and in a strange way feel as though everything is like a member of the family. We want to love it, take care of it and protect it. I think you should pack your own room up the way you want it packed.
01-30-2011, 10:19 AM
#93
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Originally Posted by Mitch's mom
I agree with you. There is no way I would let movers touch my sewing machines or anything I value. I've seen their work first hand. Never again.
Phyllis
01-30-2011, 11:10 AM
#94
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Originally Posted by jrhboxers
Now the weird part, or so my husband says, is the packing of my room. Even though I am one armed for this move, I still want to pack my room - not them - me. He says that they are the professionals, they know what they are doing, and what they pack will be covered by the insurance.
:roll: I paid them a little over $9000 for the move and then after they threw crap around and broke more stuff as they were unloading it the foreman had the audacity to ask for a tip.
We have been here for close to 7 years now and I am still finding out things that are missing and broken from the move.
Billy
01-30-2011, 01:19 PM
#98
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Location: Bosque county, Texas
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Just a word about professional movers - pack your own jewelry and take it with you. Have your silver packed under your supervision, labeled, listed on the inventory, signed, etc. I had a very valuable antique gold watch and fob stolen by the packers when they packed my jewelry. They left the case but I never noticed when they slipped it out of the case and the insurance didn't take my word that the watch and fob were there when the packers arrived. It would have been so easy to have put it in my purse. It had been my great-grandfather's. I find the small things are the things to watch out for.
Anything you can pack in tubs or boxes and seal, they can put in their boxes and mark the boxes and the inventory list so the contents are known. That just requires organization and isn't difficult. If your material is folded now, it can be put in boxes as is if someone insists on it, extra space can be filled with their paper - but only if someone is there insisting. Maybe a friend can supervise the packing of your room, as you will have to be in 6 places at once. Good luck.
Anything you can pack in tubs or boxes and seal, they can put in their boxes and mark the boxes and the inventory list so the contents are known. That just requires organization and isn't difficult. If your material is folded now, it can be put in boxes as is if someone insists on it, extra space can be filled with their paper - but only if someone is there insisting. Maybe a friend can supervise the packing of your room, as you will have to be in 6 places at once. Good luck.
01-30-2011, 04:42 PM
#99
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Dear Friend ...... having moved many times in the service, I can appreciate your concern, but I can advise you with a backlog of experience: let them do the work! They will let you supervise, and be ready with a big black marker to list what is in each box, so you know what room to send it to, what to unpack first, etc. I used to say I was so fussy about such things, I thought the clothes wouldn't dry if I didn't hang them on the line myself. I got over it. I'm a lot happier now ..... and so are the people around me! Good luck! :thumbup:
01-30-2011, 04:50 PM
#100
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Location: Royse City Texas
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I have heard so many bad things about professional packers/movers. My experience was devastating for my mother. She was living with my sister in MD and after selling her home in Ohio. She was going to FL to live with another sister so we found a mover to ship the few things she had left. Not much furniture but all her clothes, family pictures, financial paperwork, etc. Luckily we had taken her jewelery and a couple large suitcases of clothes.....because everything was stolen! I spent weeks trying to find this stuff and learned so much about the rip-offs these people do - it could cause you to never move again.
So I say pack your own, take photos of valuables and take pictures as they load and as they unload. I can't say enough about how sad it was to my mother to loose the last of her loved items.
So I say pack your own, take photos of valuables and take pictures as they load and as they unload. I can't say enough about how sad it was to my mother to loose the last of her loved items.
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