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

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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

Just an FYI about shopping and flats, home delivery is best and they all deliver to your door.
Personally I go shopping little and often so I'm not carrying much at a time and stuff is always fresh.( Just me at home)
Best option is a rucksack to spread the load and or bags that fit onto your shoulder as you can carry way more weight that way without suffering.
Wheelie trolleys are good too but rubbish on the stairs, found that out the hard way!

"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"

Don't.

Ask them. Personally I would do a huge grocery shop for delivery when I have moved and only have a few things now that I can transport myself easily. However they might do it.

There is no lift where she is moving to!

For everyone going on about how cheap the removal is.

I moved last year and we got a legitimate moving company (not just man and van set up) for £650 which also included all packing materials. They came round a couple of weeks before the move and dropped off loads of boxes and bubble wrap and then about two weeks after the move I contacted them when the boxes were ready to collect.

A couple of giant bags of rice...yes because they might be reasonably something someone is already storing at home, alongside some tins, flour, etc. The entire contents of your fridge and anything fresh/freezer food feels pretty unreasonable.

I doubt £500 would include a packing service, that's remarkably cheap.

Bit of a bad choice then? How do you plan on doing your shopping once you move in?

It's not the lifting so much, but manoevering the stairs with the box in both hands likely blocking your view. You kind of have to experience death stairs in old flats to get it!

Having moved house a gazillion times they will pack whatever is out for them to pack, even an unemptied bin, carefully wrapped in packing paper….

She’ll have to make friends with the man next door!

Have a box available to hand with kettle, mugs, tea, coffee, sugar, plates, cutlery. crockery, something for breakfast. Plus loo roll, soap (ideally in the pump bottles), a small towel to dry hands on.

Think my parents when they moved put their tins etc in boxes with kitchen written on them

Surprised that there is no lift. Don’t think I’d have move there if frail

If they've done a quote based on looking round your flat or on an itemised list showing the number of boxes etc you'll be asking them to move, then you need to tell them what you are adding and let them adjust the quote.
If you've agreed a price based on 'contents of a one bed flat' or whatever, then you should be able to pack a few of boxes of food and have them moved without any problems.
It all needs to fit in the van, it's not just about carrying them.

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.

£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.

If it is boxed and sealed how would they know

4 x bags of 10kg rice

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

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.

But its my favourite emoji!!! 😭

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

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

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

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

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