$.50 cents a pound

Blog 6

You heard we sold the house. We move on July 21st.  OK, so next thing, how are we going to move all this stuff over 700 miles?  We are not young. Our days of U-Hauls are over. However, I still can U-Pack. We have estimates from those moving companys that put your stuff on their truck, drive it to your new home and take your stuff off the truck. Well guess what!? They charge by the pound. YEP, almost 50 cents a pound. With road taxes and insurance you really need to buy, it's about 50 cents a pound.  Yowza!

OK, so look at how neat my storage is in my sewing room (now):

My incredibly neat fabric

(the rest takes up one bay of the garage)

That does not show my stash we moved to the garage so the potential buyers wouldn't see it when they looked at the house. Large tub after tub of wonderful fabrics! We wouldn't want the buyers knowing a fabric hoarder AKA "Quilter" lived here, would we? Big question now, how much does that fabric weigh? Have you ever wondered? Well I'm going to weigh some and then sit down with a big glass of something, the something in my glass depends on how much fabric weighs.  Here goes...

20 yards = 5 pounds

OK, Alright, deep breathing.  I better double check.  I checked the know-it-all in my house, Google!  Type in "how much does quilting fabric weigh?"  I found on Ebay the following for 1 yard cuts, (who knew?):

1. Washed Hoffman fabric = 4.3 oz
2. Unwashed Alexander Henry = 5.2 oz
3. Unwashed Hoffman batik = 4.7 oz 

Hmmmm.  I used unwashed Free Spirit fabric.  Lets see, that's 20 divided by 5, no that's not right.  This is where it gets difficult. Where the rubber meets the road.  MATH! 

 

OK we can do this. 16 oz to the pound means I have a total of  WHERE IS THE CALCULATOR ON MY PHONE???  5 X 16 = 80  so 20 yards = 80 ounces.  If I divide ounces by yards I get 4 ounces. So I'm saying one yard = 4 oz. plus or minus.  The average of the Ebay yards is 4.7 oz. Maybe their scale is a little more refined? The point being every 20 yards of fabric I have in my stash is going to weigh approximately 5 pounds or more and cost me $2.50 or more to move. That's just wrong. The math is right but the cost to move fabric is just wrong.