When I bought my house, it was only a couple blocks away from my apartment.. For the really big stuff (bed, desk, couch etc) I had friends help me for a few hours one day, but for a bunch of other furniture & boxes I just used a dolly to wheel it all to the new house myself.
My mother used to send her husband to the store with finely chopped butternuts on the shopping list when he would annoy her knowing he would never stop to ask where they are.
I am really bad for this. Husband, 2 adult children and one teenage boy in the house, and I'll still try to move everything myself. I see disaster somewhere ahead....
As someone who has to move a couch myself this week and who's worried my handcart's not up to the job, I have to say using my office chair to take the other end is a brilliant hack, like using one as a wheelbarrow to move stuff in an office.
