Moving House Old Style

Claire_Bear

For furniture and other householdy items, definately check out your local freecycle group, I've often seen first time homeowners or people (like me) moving out from student accommodation into a 'proper house' for the first time and need pretty much everything. If you don't know what Freecycle is, it's a group where people from your local area can give away any item that they no longer want and help to keep things out of landfill sites. You can also post 'wanted' messages and people will message you if they have these things to spare and you can go and collect them.

Also, I know round where I live some charty shops have stores specially for furniture where you could pick up sofas and tables and things for fairly cheap. They might not be in excellent condition but it's better than nothing, and you could always look at the Shabby Chic thread for inspiration

HTH, I'm going to be watching replies carefully as as I said, I'm moving out at the end of the month and need all the help I can get!

Butterfly_Brain

I agree Freecycle is very good when you are just starting out, or ask friends and relatives if they have any unwanted furniture etc. Oxfam have furniture at a reasonable price . You may feel bad that you can't have everything new for your new place but most of us have started out this way and saved for the things that we really want a room at a time.

sillylittlejill

I've looked on freecycle and at the moment there isn't too much, and things are going too quickly so I'm missing out whilst I'm at work. We don't have kids (OH isn't ready yet ),its just the two of us. We are 20 yrs old. I think we may have to hire a van for the afternoon/day as it was very stressful last time, only problem is that we need my dad to drive it as OH can't rent a van yet, he's too young.

The reason we are in a bit of debt now is because we bought everything new last time. Not making that mistake again!

Where do you get oxfam furniture from? The oxfam near me only has books and board games!

thanks for your advice so far guys
xxx

buxtonrabbitgreen

Where I live there is a Sue Ryder shop that sells mostly furniture and it is quite cheap.

slowandsteady_2

www.loot.com is pretty good too, they have a paper edition too in the supermarkets. Sometimes people are giving stuff away if you look hard enough. Also supermarket and shop advertising boards are a good place to find stuff cheaply. Perhaps if you find a good size car boot sale somewhere local and take your chances and borrow a large estate car or a van with a driver you may get some cheap items there too, dont forget to haggle though!

Gigervamp

Definitely put a wanted ad on Freecycle. I've given away a few things to people who placed a wanted ad. I know it's often hard to get things from offered ads because some people seem to reply as soon as something has been offered.

Also, moving boxes are often offered on Freecycle, so ask on there for those too.

For short term use, how about an inflatable sofabed? This one on ebay is about £45 with P&P.

Butterfly_Brain

If you go to this link it tells you where the oxfam furniture shops are x
http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shops/content/furniture.html

daisy_steiner_2

It's been a while since I've posted (although I have been reading) so sorry for diving in with a question straight away.

Anywhoo, couldn't find a thread on this, so if there is one please feel free to point me in the right direction.
We are planning to move at the start of 2010 (or sooner if we can save quicker) and want to do it as cheap as possible. We will be moving from a rented place to another one. We will be moving to another city but it is only about 30miles max drive to the area we want to move.

So what are the best old school ways to organise, pack and move in general?:money:

We have a two up, two down house with a small garden currently and shall hopefully be moving into something similar but not smaller.

We haven't even found a house yet:rotfl: but we have the money planned out for that and we have budgeted accordingly.

So any tips, hints or pointers will help.

Thanks.

Pink.

Hi Daisy,

This thread might give you some ideas:

Moving House Old Style

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the suggestions together.

These threads from other boards may help too:

Moving house, general money saving advice please:)

House moving lists - have I missed anything?

Moving House......

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Mini_Bear

The first things i would do now is go to ur local supermarket (Mr T's in my experience) and ask if u can have the left over fruit amnd veg cardboard box crate things.
If you start collecting them now you will have enought by the time you move. you can also start crating up kitchen bits you dont use and perhaps de-clutter now. taking things to the charity shop/tip etc. this will give u less to actually pack when the time comes.
we are fortunate in that we have a big family of strapping men who are only too pleased to lug sofas and beds from house to house in return for letting them drive the hired van and having copious amounts of takeaway supplied!
i would definately hire a van and try to rope in ppl who owe u favours. we have helped 3 of r friends move in the last couple yrs and they are all ready to repay the favour!
good luck with the move!