As we continue to freight and move small amounts of furniture throughout the country. Pack n sends experience mirrors the trend noted by Edward Glaeser in his New York Times article on February 16, 2010. We are seeing more college students move back home after graduation, and our younger customer moving back at least temporarily with their families.
According to Glaeser, the Current Population Survey, only four hundred thousand new house hold formed from March 2008 and March 2009. While there were about a million new families, the number of non family households dropped by three hundred thousand.
This recession has been particularly hard on younger workers. The number of jobs held by 20- to 24-year-olds declined four point five per cent in 2009, while the number of jobs held by people over the age of 25 dropped 1.8 percent. Staying at home is an understandable response from younger workers to the labor market woes. The rate of household formation also fell during the 1982 recession and the Great Depression.
While the trend noted in 2009 is still continuing into 2011, pack n send has started to move more young individuals into their own homes. We have noted a few trends:
Parents are shipping out small amounts of their own furniture for their children to use, and purchasing new furniture for their own homes.
Grandparents are helping out by sending some of their unused furniture to their grandchildren.
We recommend either shipping furniture via freight, or on a truck that ships small loads of furniture with no minimum amount of furniture.
For advice about moving or freighting small amounts of furniture though out the country or worldwide, please feel free to contact pack n send at 713 266 1450.
We pick up & deliver worldwide, as well as in our backyard.