At least for us, we decided to dump most of our furniture in NY because moving costs were astronomical. So for almost all the furniture it was new and delivered. But I had forgotten how much of a pain all the other shit is to deal with.
Make a list, go to Home Depot, but all the shit on the list, get home and then minutes start a new list.
What's even worse is I lightened the load 2x before the move. I moved once 10+ years ago and brought ALL my shit. It was cheap then so nbd. Years after that, I had a giant garage sale and moved essentially enough to fully outfit a medium sized house. And then a year before another move had another garage sale AND gave away a lot of oak furniture. Left with just some furniture.
Got to the new state and figured buy new. No good retailers because no one wanted to compete with Nebraska Furniture Mart. All they sell is junk, stinky pressboard veneer shit from Vietnam...I can still smell the formaldehyde. Nasty overpriced shit. The so-called higher end places sold mostly the same shit, but at much higher prices. The exact chair I bought was $3k more than what I paid.
Moved to different state. Here, no shortage of high quality locally made items at solid prices.
But yeah, moving sucks ass. Last year, the crew was delayed by a few days on top of having to drive all the way up themselves AND a guy quit before they left. Labor shortage was at its peak and they couldn't find a single person to help them unload. Two guys to unload a truck packed with shit. I jumped in and helped. 8 hours of fucking misery because this was a 5 person job done by 2.5 guys. If I didn't help, they would have been here till midnight and then drive 600 miles back to do another contract. Fucking hell. I'm in good shape, but sure as shit not the kind of shape to be moving piles of heavy shit around for 8 hours.
One guy was 20's and fit, the other 30's and fit and they were hitting the wall pretty hard 6 hours in. Previous move had two 40-50 y/o burnout drunks on the move crew, and let me tell ya, that was the culmination of a very long series of incredibly poor life choices on their part. Humping boxes is hard at 30, must have been murder at 50 and trying to burn off a hangover on top of it. Fuck all for pay, too. $15 an hour or thereabouts.
Next move in 2 yearsish, will be easy because local. Going to be done room by room, fuck this packing shit.