Cute Fuzzy Bunny said:
leave the washer/dryer/refrigerator here for sale with the home...buy all new ones and have them delivered.
Not sure what's available in your area, but two thoughts are:
If you have a local day labor place, you can pick up three or four bodies at a very fair daily rate to help you move - you provide directions and communicate in spanish.
If you are replacing major appliances and aren't too picky, I have had great luck at Loew's store (competition to Home Depot). They usually have an aisle for scratch and dent, which really translates into open box, or demo units, usually, sometimes there are missing items - like the screw on the back that holds the cord during shipping
. The best times for finding the best selection on those kind of items (at least here in North Texas area) is Thursday - Thursday evening. They are pulling the items and putting the mark down labels on them in preperation for Friday morning when the contractors come in and clean them out. Example, I bought side by side Stainless Steel Refrigerator/Freezer for $450 (orig 1200 - took some negotiation, but that's what we do best isn't it), a top of the line washer with all of the fancy features for $250, (orig 700), non-matching, but exactly the dryer DW wanted for $120 (orig 450), combo Convection oven/double broiler oven for $145 (orig 680), chest freezer for $45, (orig 150), you get the idea. Not saying this was one trip, and they dropped to that price immediately - you have to find something wrong that they will accept as an excuse to drop the price just to get it off the floor (my favorite is - look there's those terrible black smears on the front of the door [little graffeti remover and some soap and water removed them], or gee it's missing the box, so it will probably get horribly damaged getting it home [when they delivered it, the shipping guys tripple wrapped it in plastic bubble wrap and foam, and tape], or the classic - it's missing the manuals and that custom kit for hooking up the ice maker [plumping section sells a kit for $14.95, and manuals are downloadable on the web]. They just need an excuse that is semi-plausible to put on their paperwork, and they will work with you. Cannot say the same for Home Depot though, but that's another thread.
Can't really help you on the big screen TV though, although, with the current Plasma/LCD screens wall mounted, you can recover a lot of space for your media room, and not have to worry about Gabe playing with the controls, or running his tri-cycle into the speaker grill