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How To Get Free Moving Help
How To Get Free Moving Help
If you aren't going to pay for cheap moving help then friends and family are usually willing to help you move, if you offer the right
incentives and are a considerate mover.
- Have plenty of cold
drinks available especially during a summer move. Don’t forget to
stock the water and soda as well as the beer.
- Order a keg of beer-
most men are willing to go to a kegger moving party. *Suggestion: Keep
the keg at the new house as incentive to get the boxes and furniture
there quickly. Plus, if your friends have a tendency to drink too much,
you don’t want them dropping breakables, putting holes in the walls
or injuring one another by being careless.
- Offer food. If helpers
arrive in the morning have coffee and doughnuts out when they arrive.
At the end of the move order pizza, bring in burgers, etc.
- Be fully packed
when your helpers arrive. There’s nothing worse than showing up to
help a friend move only to find they are still packing boxes. Nobody
wants to sit around waiting for boxes to carry to the truck. Likewise,
nobody wants to do grunt work as a favor when the owner isn’t participating.
- Make it a party.
After the work is done, get help setting up the barbeque to grill some
dogs. Have help setting up your stereo system so you can liven things
up with some music, or get your TV set up so you can turn on a ball
game. Smoke a cigar in celebration or play a round of poker. This way
your friends will know you’re not just using their muscles and trucks,
but that you actually appreciate their help and enjoy their company.
- If these tactics
can’t get you friends to help in your move, click here to find
cheap moving help.