Should I buy my daughter's bedroom furniture BEFORE the move (1,700 miles away)?

Question

I was going to buy all my furniture before I moved across the country because there's no sales tax where I live, but everyone's advising me to just wait until I get there so I don't have to worry about hauling all that stuff with me.. It makes sense, I suppose, so I think I'll wait to get most of it until I get there, but when we move, I want to have my daughter's (6-years) room set up immediately before anything else because I don't want her having to sleep on a floor or mattress her first night.. I don't care if my husband and I have to. So I'm thinking about getting her bedroom furniture before I move and just waiting for everything else 'til right after we get there. Plus, I don't know how the prices are on furniture and whatnot and if I'll find anything I like out there, and there's a bedroom set here that I absolutely love for her room. Do you think I should purchase it where I'm at now and haul it with me or wait? Do you think there's a chance it'll get damaged in a U-Haul for a trip that far?

Is it impossible to use protection for it in such a way that it won't get damaged at all during the move or something? I'm being told not to at all.. again, this would be the only furniture that I would be buying before the move.. my daughter's bedroom set. Everything else can wait until we get there..

Answer 1

You don't say how much stuff you are moving, but generally the less furniture you move, the lower the cost of moving, and less worry about breakage.



It won't hurt your daughter to sleep on a mattress on the floor. She's a kid, and it would be new and exciting and wow and all that kind of stuff, especially if daddy and mommy are sleeping on the floor on mattresses too.



And a six-year-old does not need a bedroom set, little kids can sleep on anything comfy when they are tired, and digging clothes out of boxes is an adventure too. You can get some cheap old furniture at a thrift store for her and use a bedsheet pulled between the old furniture to make a tent over her mattress on the floor. And then ask her if she will invite you to sleep with her.

Answer 2

You seem to be a genuine Y/A user - 53% Best Answer - but I have now seen this question several times - a question about buying bedroom furniture in the Commuting section. Puzzling.

Answer 3

I would go ahead and buy it now, then keep it wrapped up in the cardboard if possible. Also get some furniture pads from U-Haul to wrap around the furniture also then tie with rope to the side of the truck.

Answer 4

No after u move

Answer 5

AFter !!