A few years back I had a guy that told me all about why he was hiring a moving company next time he moved and it cracked me up. If I was Frank I would hire one also. I had him write me up the whole story.
Cheap Moving Boxes – Not for me anymore
When looking for the cheapest moving boxes you are asking for trouble. Let me tell you what happened to me when I thought I knew it all and decided to get free boxes from my local grocery store. My wife kept telling me to go online and buy some moving boxes but I didn’t listen to her and I have been paying for it ever since. I think I am being haunted by a ghost because I was being really cheap.
My wife’s aunt Florence loved my wife as if she was her own daughter. Just before she passed away she gave my wife a porcelain vase that was brought over on the ship with her when she came to the United States as a child. This thing was in the family for a long time and she was honored that she was the one to get it. All her sisters were jealous of her.
My wife loved this thing and kept it on it’s own little shelf with it’s own doilies which even I was not allowed to touch. That thing was practically a kid to us, My wife even talked to it. I know that sounds crazy but you know how one could get when they are attached to something after all I talk to my car. When we decided to move to a new town that is when all the trouble started with me and my cheap moving box.
We arrived at our new house and we only unpacked what we needed as we were tired from being in the rental truck all day and half the night. I took out the last box that we put on the truck that had the blow up mattress in it and started to set it up in the living room so we could get some sleep.
My wife insisted that I go out to the truck and bring in the porcelain vase that her aunt gave her. I was tired but she insisted that it had to be with her since she has had it with her her whole life and it shouldn’t spent the night in a rental truck. I reluctantly put on my coat and went out to the truck and was whispering under my breath that I had to go out in the cold and get this thing. My wife decided she was going to help and hold the front door open as I carried in the box that I was starting to hate.
I got the box out of the truck and walked up the driveway on the wet grass and up on to the front porch. That is when my world changed. The bottom of the box gave way and the porcelain vase came out the bottom. It broke into what seemed like a million pieces all over the front porch. My wife broke into tears and started screaming at me as you can imagine. I started to block them out as I was hearing them. Of course it was all my fault because I was trying to save money on moving boxes.
My wife has never forgiven me even though it has been about 5 years now that we are in the new house and my great moving boxes are long gone. Whenever she gets mad at me I hear the whole story over and over again. That is not the worst part of it. I also think that her aunt Florence is haunting the new house that we moved into. In the dead of night you can hear strange noises coming from the attic. Of course my wife doesn’t hear anything and she says that I am crazy. I made the mistake of telling my wife that I think it’s her aunt Florence that is haunting us. She says well I wasn’t the cheap one so you have to pay for getting moving boxes for free. Sometimes I even think she is right about it.
So I learned a lesson the hard way and if I ever move into a new house I will not even try to save money on moving boxes. It just isn’t worth the price that I paid over the years all because I was being an ego type guy and refusing to spend money on something that was free.
There is nothing free in this life. Trust me on that one.
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Thanks for sharing your experience. This is surely a great help. In times when we really want to save money, we look out for a cheaper option but sometimes, it would cost us more. This a a learning experience.