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Changednameadviceneededxx · 2025-03-26T11:55:32+00:00

Just that really I should be moving shortly, fingers crossed, and have agreed £500 for removal men to take our stuff It costs extra because they need to remove my fridge doors I am going to do a HUGE food shop of heavy items, such as bottles and tins and jars, bags of rice and pasta, just all of the heavy shopping, as its a 2nd floor flat, no lift Aibu to think that they would take that stuff? It would be in heavy duty shopping bags Tia x

Clarinet1 · 26/03/2025 16:32

I have lived in a second floor period conversion walk-up flat and used Tesco and Ocado regularly who both brought my (large-ish) online shops upstairs. If you’ve already got lots of rice perhaps pack that in a couple of boxes but hold off on the tins etc.
I am small and not in the best of health but can you really not manage, say, four or five tins up the stairs once or twice a week?

Coffeeishot · 26/03/2025 16:26

Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 11:57

It's a 2nd floor flat, with no lift, and I am a teeny and tired woman 😭

Won't the delivery driver take it up the stairs ? You would probably need to ask your removers I suppose if it's all boxed up they would, but what about fresh food ?

Darkclothes · 26/03/2025 16:24

Can you still eat rice with weevils in it?

It's perfectly safe to eat the weevils, but there is a squeamish factor and a texture factor involved with doing so; as a result you may hear people suggesting to discard the rice and start over. 😱

I once bought rice from a bulk food shop, where you scoop the rice, flour, sugar etc into your own or their containers to reduce plastic waste. The rice had weevils in it. I threw it all away- never thought eating with the weevils in it was an option for added protein!

Question about removal men - will they take my food shopping?

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 16:03

this smallish problem
Sounds like 100kg + problem😂

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 16:02

😭 Crying
😂 Cryong with laughter.
For future reference😂

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:58

Ilikeadrink14 · 26/03/2025 14:02

Also, if the stair situation is bad now, how will you cope as you age? Lifts do break down. Tears will get you nowhere then!

I posted this thread truly curious about this smallish problem and now I have more problems

Ageing and rice weevils and the fact that apparently this 😭 emoji is not seen as laughter but crying

I don't know how I will cope with age but I'm 30s so hope not to worry about that for now!

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:55

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 15:48

Fucking hell. 40kg of rice would probably take me years to go through!
Some of it may get manky with veewels as pps said... What a waste
Will you even fit into the flat😂

Normla people do it that they stock up bit by bit. So did I when I had to carry my stuff up to 4th floor. Simply grab this and that when wheopping and eventually you have nice stock🤷 Free exercise!

I've already bought the rice 🙈

Maybe i should return 2 packs 🥺😅

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:54

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 15:49

They are not 🙈

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😭😭😭 < that's a crying with laughter emoji! What can you see?

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:53

Darkclothes · 26/03/2025 15:53

OP- maybe you'll need to learn how to carry things on your head! 😆

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:53

Ilikeadrink14 · 26/03/2025 13:54

Then why do you need so much food?? 🤣

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😄 I like to buy in bulk! This shopping should last for the rest of the year, and I'd only need to top up with meat and fresh and frozen ingredients

Although apparently rice isn't non perishable so now I'm stressed

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Darkclothes · 26/03/2025 15:53

OP- maybe you'll need to learn how to carry things on your head! 😆

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 15:49

Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:47

Oh yes and pasta bake etc, but it won't perish for ages

They're laughing emojis!

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They are not 🙈

SparrowsEatUpToHalfTheirBodyWeightADay · 26/03/2025 15:48

Fucking hell. 40kg of rice would probably take me years to go through!
Some of it may get manky with veewels as pps said... What a waste
Will you even fit into the flat😂

Normla people do it that they stock up bit by bit. So did I when I had to carry my stuff up to 4th floor. Simply grab this and that when wheopping and eventually you have nice stock🤷 Free exercise!

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:47

minnienono · 26/03/2025 13:30

is it even big enough? I did two runs from our two bed house to current house with our man and van service then a third run to pick up my stuff from my old former marital home. Not involving 10kg bags of rice.

as far as heavy ingredients are concerned, I’ve switched to 4kg brown basmati bags as local Sainsbury’s has it and I can’t carry any more!

A Luton van would be too small?

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:47

Darkclothes · 26/03/2025 13:50

But upthread you said tins and pastabake!

Why all the crying emojis OP???

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Oh yes and pasta bake etc, but it won't perish for ages

They're laughing emojis!

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:45

zingally · 26/03/2025 15:02

£500?! You got a bargain!

I paid that 15 years ago for a man, his mate and a van.

My most recent move 6 months ago, I paid close to £2K. That was just for a simple move from one side of town to the other, and no packing service. That was out of a first floor flat and into a house.

I'm gonna call them 😬😬

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:44

Stravaig · 26/03/2025 12:59

I think it's easy to think that your specific heavy or bulky things are especially bizarre or annoying, but they won't be.

I have several dozen bricks that get boxed up (in multiple small book boxes) when I move. Old, hand-made, sea-tumbled, salvaged from corroded beach defences, used with planks for an improvised bookcase, and too gorgeous to part with while I figure out their next incarnation.

I've felt self-conscious about those. Forty kilos of rice, pffft!

I hope the move goes smoothly ~ happy home-warming 🪴🍾

😄 it's a lot of rice, that I've already bought 🙈

Hopefully it will be okay, as even 10kg of rice is bloody heavy

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:43

feelinghopeless2025 · 26/03/2025 15:31

I'd check with them- I used a cheapy man and van type service for 500 quid last time I moved, sent them a list of my stuff and they said would all fit in a Luton van, then on moving day the two guys turned up and did lots of sharp intakes of breath at the stuff I had (which was all on the list!!!) and we had to leave a bunch of furniture behind. Now I would always triple check!

The quotes we had from more expensive 'proper' moving places, unsurprisingly, did a much more thorough job and came round to actually look at our stuff first.

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Hmm okay you're right and I will do this, I'll message them and ask them to triple confirm x

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:42

Okay, I wasn't expecting to be roasted and have mumsnet laughing at me 😭😭 ( @100percenthagitude 😉)
, it was a genuine query

I have contacted them and they said they will take up my food bags

I usually buy the cheapest tomatoes from lidl, so I was planning to buy loads and get the removal people to take them up for me, as I do cook a lot, and obvs lidl don't deliver

Then the massive bags of rice and pasta, tins of soup and jars of cooking sauces, cat litter, laundry detergent etc

That way, I never need to do a bulk shop again and can just top them up as and when, saving my poor back

I have just been alerted to rice weevils so there's a new anxiety added to the list 😅

I didn't know that supermarkets deliver upstairs - I should be on the second floor of a period flat, so thought that I'd just be lugging up shopping myself

Plus, years ago when I lived with my parents, the Asda man refused to bring the shopping up one floor - i cant imagine someone being prepared to lug my shopping up two flights of stairs to my door tbh but will see what happens when I do my first shop when I'm there

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Bignanna · 26/03/2025 15:41

AdaStewart · 26/03/2025 15:01

On our last move we didn’t move far & they took our fridge freezer with all the food in it. They waited until the last minute to remove it from the old place, & took it off the van first to the new place. Plus they took the food from the cupboards, which is shopping. They told me they’d take whatever I liked as I was paying for it, so there’d be no point moving anything myself. Although I did to get a head start with the kitchen & bathroom stuff, & move a few things I didn’t want them seeing.

I’m wondering what you didn’t want them to see…

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:35

viques · 26/03/2025 13:19

Pasta and rice are very perishable. I give you the rice weevils.

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Changednameadviceneededxx · 26/03/2025 15:34

100percenthagitude · 26/03/2025 13:19

And also stop with the tears emojis, ffs!!!

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But its my favourite emoji!!! 😭

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feelinghopeless2025 · 26/03/2025 15:31

I'd check with them- I used a cheapy man and van type service for 500 quid last time I moved, sent them a list of my stuff and they said would all fit in a Luton van, then on moving day the two guys turned up and did lots of sharp intakes of breath at the stuff I had (which was all on the list!!!) and we had to leave a bunch of furniture behind. Now I would always triple check!

The quotes we had from more expensive 'proper' moving places, unsurprisingly, did a much more thorough job and came round to actually look at our stuff first.

NotHavingAFunTime · 26/03/2025 15:13

4 x bags of 10kg rice

Won’t that all be out of date before you can use half of it op?

Breadcat24 · 26/03/2025 15:09

If it is boxed and sealed how would they know