14k? I know people who own more than 14k worth of fishing equipment ... not including any sort of boat. A family of four with any sort of hobby, say four sets of skis/boots/poles, will easily hit 14k on that hobby alone. I don't want to think about how much all my climbing gear would cost to replace.

Packing up everything into suitcases is all well and good for single IT workers moving between generic white-walled apartments. People with kids and hobbies have stuff that takes up space.

That’s a fairly significant amount of furniture.

Unless you’re buying mid-grade or lower IKEA or purchasing used, you’ll almost always come out behind by selling and repurchasing.

$14k is like one smaller piece of high end furniture.

That said, it might cover two or three rooms of carefully budgeted non-crap furniture. Or like five of lucky thrift store finds.

I see many scenarios where the items would add up to less than this. I see more where it doesn't. e.g.: What you say makes sense for a single person who owns a PC, a TV, and Ikea + amazon furniture.

Now imagine a couple or family, who's been (criticize the capitalist/consumer culture or not) buying nice wood furniture, has a well-stocked kitchen, multiple computers, hobby equipment etc.

I encourage you to run a rough estimate of your own household's items. Do the same for your a neighbor's; a friend's.

2 pieces of good (not ikea crap quality which you don't want to move around anyway) furniture would easily cost $14k.

> He paid $14k for the movers. That would buy a fair bit of new furniture unless it’s really high end.

Not really? Furniture is expensive. Once you move out of the garbage tier, that's not a whole lot of stuff.

I made a lot of my furniture--it's hard to replace.