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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 8, 2022 7:59:00 GMT -5
OK, the living room is painted, the foyer is painted, the radiator in the foyer is painted... So now I get to rehang the lights and move my sister's roll-top desk that her asshole husband brought up here from Florida before he died (and could pay to take it all back down) that has been in my apartment for 10 years back into place. I'd be more upset about it, but it fits perfectly in that space. I also need to buy a new chair. And put together a bookcase I bought three years ago and haven't had the space for. Then that third of the apartment will be done! (And I can move on to my bedroom. Which just needs a coat of paint and a new area rug.)
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 8, 2022 8:38:02 GMT -5
I just need to tidy up. But whenever the new roommates come to stay, the blow through like a whirlwind, and I'm back, not to square one, but like square -3.
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 8, 2022 19:57:44 GMT -5
I manage to send myself back to square -3 all on my own. #Talent
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 9, 2022 17:18:09 GMT -5
I decided the other day to see if I could find out how much it would be to ship my sister's desk down to her and I found this site called "Shiply" where you put in the details of what you need to be shipped, to and from where, and measurements. I did that expecting just a quote, but instead they let other companies basically bid on the job. The first quote I got was 1900 dollars. (For a desk I was going to sell for 250 and the guy someone sent to pick it up tried to haggle me down to 100 and I told him no.) So I ignored it. Suddenly I have 20 quotes, and each one is about 50 to 100 dollars less than the prior one, down to 1190 dollars. Like a reverse eBay bidding war. Except, I'm not paying 1200 dollars to have someone bring this down either.
What I really need is a site where people who are moving cross country advertise extra space on their truck to help pay expenses and maybe a little extra to go slightly out of their way to drop something off. A former co-worker did that and got her baby grand piano moved up from her stepmother's house in Florida to NY for about 100 bucks. That was more what I was thinking. My sister could buy herself a new desk for 1200 and have money left over for a couch.
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 10, 2022 8:18:19 GMT -5
I used Shiply (or something like it... shiply sounds familiar, though) to move a crib across the country. I wasn't paying for it, but I tried to get it done as cheap as possible. Those sites and services are for businesses, so the idea is that this isn't a one-off kind of thing, and you'd also end up writing that off on your taxes. Or something.
That said, see if there's someone on Craigslist or Facebook or NextDoor doing something like that. Use a protonmail account, though.
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 10, 2022 9:37:38 GMT -5
I got a bid for 460 dollars. I'm thinking if I just do not respond they'll just keep lowering the bid.
Edit: But I found a site that calculates the cost of gas to travel from point A to B and it's about 250 dollars. So... 460 isn't bad, really. 250 to get down there. 210 to take it out of my apartment and carry it into my sister's house. It is heavy. It's pretty reasonable. Now, is my sister invested enough in this thing to want it and split the cost with me? Hmm.
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 10, 2022 13:34:18 GMT -5
Yeah, see if she'll split it. That wouldn't be too terrible. But it would also be awful.
EDIT: Awful because it would still cost you a lot of money.
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 10, 2022 15:47:10 GMT -5
Yeah. And it's not like I'm in a hurry to get rid of it. It's just... why am I keeping it? I just have too much stuff. If she's not interested in splitting the cost of getting it down there, I might just try and sell it again instead. Not that I ever have any luck doing that.
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 11, 2022 15:34:30 GMT -5
That's exactly what you should do. Except the last part. Also, if you'd accepted the $100 haggle, you would have successfully sold it. So you did have luck! What is the lowest price at which you'd let it go?
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 11, 2022 16:33:13 GMT -5
Not 100 dollars, apparently. At that time I was just mad to have already made a deal with someone (for 300) only to have them send someone to haggle me down. So even if I had accepted the 100 instead, I bet I'd still be mad about it.
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 12, 2022 12:35:20 GMT -5
Blerg. That does suck. Maybe this is in the wrong thread.
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 14, 2022 17:55:22 GMT -5
So now that my entranceway is freshly painted, I'm not sure what I should hang there. It needs something. I have lots of things. But do I put all my family photos and mementos of things done there? Or do I hang something pretty? I have a lovely landscape I bought not too long after my mom died. Some photos I purchased from a photography friend. Decorative stuff. Things I liked, but nothing personal, or familial.
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Post by ctheokas on Jun 14, 2022 18:53:10 GMT -5
First impressions are important. Since this is your entrance-way, it's the first impression of you that visitors will get. So make sure you have something threatening on display, like a sword, so they know not to fuck with you. And family photos, so they know you have a soft side. And a landscape, so they know where you're going to dump their bodies after you hack them up with your sword.
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Post by NYPinTA on Jun 15, 2022 8:24:45 GMT -5
*takes notes*
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