The fee from the removalists will be fixed. That is about the only cost of moving that you could have prepared for. If you are planning a budget for your move interstate with your wife and two kids, this article is for you. Here is a look, one that is a little humorous at times, at the hidden costs of moving. There is no way that you could have seen any of that coming. Just be prepared to spend a lot more money than you have planned for. Hopefully, this article will make your budget planning a little more realistic.
- Fast Food. You never give your kids fast food to eat. You didn’t even know they liked it. But now you are on the way to your new home, there seems to be a fast food outlet at every airport departure and arrival. Every advert they have ever been exposed to seems to have boiled up in their head. The move has been hard enough on them, and you feel like you have no choice. An apple in your bag and another bottle of water will just not suffice. You will spend ridiculous amounts on cheap food that is not cheap after all. And this does not include the first few days in your new home with nothing to cook but Chinese take-away.
- Internet Access. Internet access at home was on a monthly plan. You paid a certain amount to have just about all the access you needed. Now you are on the road, train, plane or automobile, your phone is your main access point. Connection drop-outs and reloading of your last email once again, not only add to your account, what is that bill really going to be? Be prepared to pay for internet during transit at ridiculously high prices. If only you had paid for a monthly rate of data for these few days before your new home connection was turned on. If only your phone had four screens, so your wife and two kids could be using it at the same time to check their emails and Facebook accounts.
- Phonecalls. You have moved interstate, but no one you know has. That means that each of your phone calls has turned into a long distance call. If only you could make one local call, it might seem you got some value out of this month’s phone bill. There is no one there to help you anyway, but calls to them seem so important now.
- Taxis. If you knew where you were going, you might have saved a few dollars. How is it that taxi drivers can tell that someone is from out of town? You find out a few weeks later that ride you paid 80 dollars for, should have only cost 20.
- Service Station Shopping. Call it seven eleven, whatever they are called near you, the last time you went to a supermarket was a week ago. You have been buying what you need each day. Those convenience stores don’t make a profit from being open all day and night because they are cheap. You have been spending more than your weekly shopping budget each day. Once you are settled, you and the wife will get back into the swing of smart shopping, but the week of moving has blown all previous ideas of stupid shopping is, out of the water.
Your things arrived on time. The interstate removalists did their job. You wonder how it was possible to spend so much money in so few a days. This article is only the tip of the iceberg.
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