Why I’m Making a Single Girl Registry for My Move to Los Angeles
Why should I have to get married to make it through the largest transition I’ve ever had in my life? Married people got two incomes AND two sets of stuff already! Let’s normalize single people gift registries!
I’ve lived by myself for 16 years.
Which I realize is something of an aberration for Millennials. But that’s just part of coming from the old New York: the only upside of shitty old buildings is rent stabilization. Thus with the exception of a few hand-me-downs from my parents when I started out, I had to get everything for my homes on my own over time.
As I face the largest and most significant move I’ve ever made in my life to date, it’s no shock I’ve been slapped with numerous expenses: movers. Junk removal service. Paying the security deposit plus pro-rated rent to kick off my new lease. Lodging while I get my condo ready for sale and have no furniture, cookware, or anything. All while I still need to pay for the condo’s common charges until I find a buyer, and they successfully close.
Moving is EXPENSIVE, people. It doesn’t start and stop at renting a truck or hiring a service!
Granted, I knew these expenses were coming and I’d been laboriously saving my money plus purging parts of my wardrobe and household items, in addition to artifacts from my old life I decided wouldn’t come with me. This move has been planned for an extremely long time, and things still happened to waylay those plans for both better and worse!
Single people also bear a disproportionately higher burden when it comes to both living expenses and major interruptions like relocation.
