Seventy Three Pieces

Many of you have asked us what it takes to move an apartment full of treasured belonging to Australia? Well I can now say with a high degree of confidence that if you put three strong burley guys to work for 8 hours straight (with two ever vigilant supervisors) you can basically pack the contents of an entire 750 square foot apartment in to 73 boxes, and pack carry them down 3 flights of stairs to a waiting moving van.

It's simultaneously amazing how much stuff Teresa and I seemed to have been able to stuff in to our little Brooklyn apartment, and how few boxes it ultimately took to package virtually all our life's belongings up and ship half way around the world... how many boxes do you think your life would fit in to?


The approximate price for the move seems to be coming in around the $4,000 mark, which seems like a lot but it's about a quarter of the replacement value of the stuff we're keeping... so it seems to be worth it. The shipping company (NY International Shipping) with also delivery it door-to-door to our new apartment, when we get one in Australia. Of course it's going to be a little more that 12 weeks before we'll have a new place to live, but fortunately because it takes about that long to ship everything to Australia we won't need to pay for any storage costs either... it all seems like a good deal... :-)

Location:Brooklyn, NY