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So did you know that you can return your old couch? Well, sometimes. I learned this when

I was moving from New York to LA and collected a bunch of moving hacks from my friends. I got

some really good tips and a lot of really wild stories. One of my favorites was from a

girlfriend who told me about how her sister-in-law returned her couch. Like me, she was moving

cross-country and she didn't want to bother moving the old couch she got from Costco.

The couch was something like three years old and during those three years she had kids

who wreaked havoc on the couch past the point of no return. But not actually because

she didn't go back to Costco and actually returned it. Costco looked at the couch, which

my friend told me had like Cheerios between the cushions and other fossils of life with

kids. And Costco took it back. Okay, so returning a used couch is a unique example. Most of the

time, reasons we need to return something are pretty standard. Like furniture doesn't

look exactly right. The sweater is a wrong size. The color looked different online. You

know, boring, normal stuff. And it's the boring, normal stuff that can end up sneakily

costing us big if we're not careful. So, pro tip. Prioritizing shopping at stores that

have the best return policies and skipping the ones that don't gives you insurance essentially

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