To want to just rebuy furniture rather than transport and store it?

[BrittaPerry]

Over the next few months I will be moving 200 miles, with about 2or 3 months staying with my mum inbetween.

AIBU to give away/sell my furniture and just buy again at this end?

I'm fairly poor, but the furniture is all hand me downs and junk shop anyway. I can fit the nice stuff ( ie the stuff I bought new from Ikea) in a car load and the spare room at mums house where I and ths dds sleep.

It's the hiring a van, messing about, putting in storage, paying for storage, faffing about getting in to the new house, and it might be wrong for the house anyway. Plus I'm divorcing H, so there is the extra fighting, bad memories etc that I can avoid by just telling him to take what he wants.

How much would it cost to get absolute basics for a woman and two small home educated semi co sleeping children? At first we only technically need the one bed, although I like them to have their own to be able to choose where to sleep, then what? Settee, table, chairs, wardrobe?

Or am I being daft?

I just want to pack a case and leave him to deal with it all. Thats unreasonable of me I know, but...sigh.

Do it. I used to move a lot and always dumped old stuff and replaced it rather than move it all around. It makes you feel nicer too, with a fresh start.

Keep the stuff you actually care about, ditch the rest. Though if it were me, I'd prioritise all the DC's stuff first, and check with them if there is anything they are particularly attached to.

Sounds very sensible to me. You will be able to pick up other bits second hard or cheaply gradually when you get your new place.

These moves always take longer than expected so the storage fees will rack up and, as you say, the furniture might not be right for the new place anyway.

Do it, it is stupid to pay to store things that can be replaced easily.

I'm in the do it camp.
We moved to Oz 15 months ago, and wish I did this as the beds are a different size here. But, my dhs company paid for it to be moved, so no big issue.
If you're not emotionally attached to your furniture, then do it, and get some other furniture to replace it, as pp said new start, new home, new furniture.
It's a waste to store it, if you don't really like your furniture.

Do it. Quite aside from the hassle of moving it, which it sounds like you could do without, I suspect you'd spend as much moving and storing it all as you would buying new, as long as you don't intend to replace with expensive designer furniture. Sell the lot, then go nuts in Ikea at the other end.

I think we all wish we'd done that when we move, at least with some of our stuff. I think we all work round things that don't work in our new houses.

If you are HEing you will need a good table and chairs and bookcases.

The one piece of furniture that was always missing as students was sodding book cases.

DF home eds and she has shelves and cupboards built in round her chimney to hide all the stuff in.
Billy book case and a big pile of magazine folders for loose paperwork for a start.

Also boring stuff like bedding, cutlery and pans and stuff.

Buying furniture plus this stuff will mount up.

The DCs will want to bake and do things exH won't. Strip your kitchen and stuff those things in a box at your Mum's. if you've been a student or rented a holiday cottage you will know there is never a grater, a sieve or the right sized tin.

Crockery is cheap and fun to choose, decent knives, pans and baking tins aren't. DH and I still use our old spud peelers and hate each others.

Also really stupid things like lap top charges, iPod docks and TV cables, there are lots of £10, £20 there you want to make sure when you mave things that you take everything need to make things work.

As long as your old stuff gets used and not end up in landfill for no reason then do it, if finances allow. Don't throw good stuff away though that is a waste!

Mave ?- move

Your exH may be being reasonable, but if he isn't and didn't want you to take the computer or whatever it could get expensive.

do it, especially if you don't know what the new house is yet! Storage mounts up and if it is longer than a few months it is NEVER worth it.

but as someone else notes, don't dump anything. Ebay, freecycle, charities - British Heart Foundation among others will collect furniture.

Do it. Unless there's a particular piece of furniture you're attached to. I'd love to start over and just buy stuff that a) fits in my house and b) goes together. Can't afford to, but if I were moving house that's what I'd do (with the exception of my lovely solid 5' x 4' kitchen table, and possibly my bed) All the rest of my furniture I resent slightly as I don't love it at all.

Oh, I won't dump it. One of the reasons I can't face moving it all is my habit of holding on to stuff that isn't good enough for charity because it feels...wrong...to put stuff in landfill.

Sell it. I just moved 300 miles and insisted on bringing everything. My furniture really is nothing special and I've since bought some much needed extra chests of drawers from the local charity shop for £20. A lick of paint, and they're much nicer than any of the stuff I hired an enormous van to bring here. We're not staying here as I just can't stand it tbh, when we move next time I'll be bringing the bare minimum. I've learned my lesson, it's just stuff. It can be replaced.

Also, gumtree it. I offloaded my sofa that way before I moved. Then look at local listings on ebay at the other end. The sofa I'm parked on cost me £40, and was practically brand new as the owner was emigrating. If you list all your 'not good enough' stuff as somethign wanky like shabby chic, people will fall over themselves to buy it. Honestly, a lick of paint will do wonders for most stuff

I can properly beg and borrow quite a bit for the new house, due to being part of a HUGE extended family, and I have my own (distinct from dh) laptop and ipad, so I don't need tv or anything.

My tastes are kind of hippy student anyway, and I paint (not saying I'm good...) so I can get some lovely colourful canvasses up. Dd1 loves moshi monsters and dd2 loves Thomas, so theres loads of cheap decorative stuff about so they can make it feel like theirs.

The main thing I want to bring is my books and the kids books and toys.

Baking stuff is a good point, I bake quite a bit. In fact, if XH decides to be a twat, that stuff would be the first stuff he would take his anger out on I think.

i got rid of a load of stuff when i moved, now i am wishing i held on to it as even though it wasn't expensive it still cost to replace.

Things like an old chest of drawers, they were a bit tatty so i gave them away but i could have painted them and they would have looked great again. Now even the charity shop want £50 for some tatty draws that i would need to paint up anyway.

Actually, no, my musical instruments. I need to get them out asap. He hates them, because he can't play any and its the one thing I know more about than him.