When you've moved did you hire movers or did you gather friends and family and moved all your stuff together in cars, trucks, and a rental truck?
My DH and I are currently in the process of getting ready to move and are having a deep discussion on this. My family has always hired movers and his family thinks its a waste of money when you have perfectly good friends and family to help. It appears I will lose this battle - as there's a lot of people who have offered and although we're getting stuff from multiple places, it's not too much of hardship travel-wise.
What are your thoughts on this? I'm curious to know if I'm in a minority on this or the majority and my husbands family just does it because 'it's how they've always done it.'
Background: I love that movers know what they're doing and are 'experts' at it for the most part. I've had great luck with them and would love to use them again, as I personally dislike helping people move, so hate to have to ask them to help me move. But in DHs family it seems almost like an expectation that they'd help...I just do not get it.