Packing Service for a move

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I have a local move coming up and am thinking of using a full service mover or packing service. There is nothing I dread more than packing and unpacking a kitchen, never mind the rest of my stuff (2 bed, 2 bath).

There are a lot of great moving recommendations on here, but I haven't seen anything about packing. Has anyone had success without paying an arm and a leg?

I wonder if it makes sense to leverage a full service mover or have someone pack separately from task rabbit or something similar. All ideas and recommendations are very appreciated!

Comments

[totient]

If you have the mover also do the packing, then when (not if) something gets broken there will be no finger pointing about whose fault it was, the packer or the mover. Also professional packers are 10 times faster than you are. The last time I had an apartment that size (*) professionally packed it took one guy six hours to do the entire thing.

(*) actually it was a 3br, not 2, but we'd spent the previous two weeks getting it meticulously clean, which I'm sure helped.