it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Well, now, that's ^^^ kind of key . We have to come out of our own pockets for this. If someone else were paying, I'd be on the phone...."come box up my stuff and load it. Load all of it. Yeah, everything. I'll get rid of what I don't need when I get there!"
If I had known then what I know now...
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it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Well, now, that's ^^^ kind of key . We have to come out of our own pockets for this. If someone else were paying, I'd be on the phone...."come box up my stuff and load it. Load all of it. Yeah, everything. I'll get rid of what I don't need when I get there!"
imalive- you can do this by yourself- its no big deal really. You'll need the $$ for so much other stuff once you are moved. The mindset is adventure, change and journey and you will be making family memories. Its tough but nothing you can't handle. Plan well,sell what you don't need want, pack it on up, drive the truck, and unload that sucker- Play lots of PJ and lots of beer when done. Smile its over. We did 1300 miles and had to sleepover- you can do 400 thats like 6 hrs drive.My motto in life is never pay for what you can do yourself - thats why I'm still doing all the yardwork when most in our neighborhood have lawn service. It makes you feel good really.
it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Are you guys talking about pro movers? Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks. I can't imagine it'd cost $9000 unless you're also paying them to drive your stuff from the one house to the next, which is probably unnecessary. Of course, renting the truck and its gas will run you, but there's no way to avoid that in either case. as someone above said, if you box your stuff up (after a garage sale), it'd be pretty cheap to hire someone to load it onto your truck and that is what is truly difficult. plus, they do it so often they'll do it in a fraction of the time it'd take you and your friends.
it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Are you guys talking about pro movers? Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks. I can't imagine it'd cost $9000 unless you're also paying them to drive your stuff from the one house to the next, which is probably unnecessary. Of course, renting the truck and its gas will run you, but there's no way to avoid that in either case. as someone above said, if you box your stuff up (after a garage sale), it'd be pretty cheap to hire someone to load it onto your truck and that is what is truly difficult. plus, they do it so often they'll do it in a fraction of the time it'd take you and your friends.
Good idea about the hourly guys... I know that when we moved last year with a Uhaul, they even had a subcontractor where you could get labor guys through them to load/unload. I have no idea what it cost though.
From experience, moving hundreds of miles away usually means that you are going somewhere that you don't know anyone... Luckily I did it when I was single and my family came and helped me out. But if we moved our entire house somewhere new now, we'd have to atleast hire some people to help unload.
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it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Well, now, that's ^^^ kind of key . We have to come out of our own pockets for this. If someone else were paying, I'd be on the phone...."come box up my stuff and load it. Load all of it. Yeah, everything. I'll get rid of what I don't need when I get there!"
imalive- you can do this by yourself- its no big deal really. You'll need the $$ for so much other stuff once you are moved. The mindset is adventure, change and journey and you will be making family memories. Its tough but nothing you can't handle. Plan well,sell what you don't need want, pack it on up, drive the truck, and unload that sucker- Play lots of PJ and lots of beer when done. Smile its over. We did 1300 miles and had to sleepover- you can do 400 thats like 6 hrs drive.My motto in life is never pay for what you can do yourself - thats why I'm still doing all the yardwork when most in our neighborhood have lawn service. It makes you feel good really.
POD. Hands down. It's the easiest thing. I used a relo-cube, which is the poor-man's version of a POD and it was great. You tell them when to pick it up and when to drop it off and that's that. Movers seem to me to be more trouble than they're worth. They never seem to arrive on time and they lose/break stuff...as long as you don't mind hauling your own crap out to the POD, I say go for it. And I would bet you can fit everything in there. When I got the relo-cube, which is much much smaller than the POD, they said, "well we always bring two, and if you only use one you don't have to pay for the other." So I was like oh yeah I'll definitely need two. Nope, I fit my whole apartment into one. It just takes some strategic planning. How many Tetris hours did you log as a kid? that definitely comes in handy. One thing I have done is taken some graph paper and measured all my furniture and then graphed it out given the dimensions of the truck/cube. And then you always just take that as a lowerbound so you have extra room for the error in you calculation and the extra stuff you didn't measure.
i'm about to do the 3000 mile move (again)...i got rid of as much as I could, shipped anything possible Media Mail thru the post office, and sent extra bags of stuff with anyone flying back and brought as much stuff with me over the past couple of months. Anything that is left in my room now is coming back in my car with me or is being sent back...
Pas long as you don't mind hauling your own crap out to the POD, I say go for it.
It just takes some strategic planning. How many Tetris hours did you log as a kid? that definitely comes in handy. One thing I have done is taken some graph paper and measured all my furniture and then graphed it out given the dimensions of the truck/cube. And then you always just take that as a lowerbound so you have extra room for the error in you calculation and the extra stuff you didn't measure.
these are the very reasons i'd rather have movers do it for me i've no interest in doing that kind of work.
Pas long as you don't mind hauling your own crap out to the POD, I say go for it.
It just takes some strategic planning. How many Tetris hours did you log as a kid? that definitely comes in handy. One thing I have done is taken some graph paper and measured all my furniture and then graphed it out given the dimensions of the truck/cube. And then you always just take that as a lowerbound so you have extra room for the error in you calculation and the extra stuff you didn't measure.
these are the very reasons i'd rather have movers do it for me i've no interest in doing that kind of work.
me either...i'd rather burn all my crap than go through that!
Pas long as you don't mind hauling your own crap out to the POD, I say go for it.
It just takes some strategic planning. How many Tetris hours did you log as a kid? that definitely comes in handy. One thing I have done is taken some graph paper and measured all my furniture and then graphed it out given the dimensions of the truck/cube. And then you always just take that as a lowerbound so you have extra room for the error in you calculation and the extra stuff you didn't measure.
these are the very reasons i'd rather have movers do it for me i've no interest in doing that kind of work.
me either...i'd rather burn all my crap than go through that!
seriously.
we moved 1.5 miles....and we hired pros.
so sure, the cost of the drive, nada really. we went from a huge 1 br apt, and i mean huge....as big as our current 3 br house. so about 1200sf each place. we also have a LOT of stuff. all my art stuff, books, cds, school stuff....hubby and all his bass gear, fishing gear, skiing gear...plus all the furniture, electronics, etc. it was exhausting packing it, can't imagine actually moving it. plus, most movers insure against breakage/damage, and that is helpful. nothing like ruining a prized piece of furniture banging it around. they also know how to best secure your goods in transit.
i think for imalive, the bigest reason of such a high cost is how FAR you are travelling. i think conor had a good suggestion - hire pros to load and unload, but maybe do the driving yourself? me, if i were ever to do such a move, i'd probably hire pros all the way, 9k cost or not. i imagine if i ever moved that far, it would be for good...so yea....
just even thinking of moving our current belongings..... :shock: . we are only 2 people, but we have a full sized basement, a garage, a garden shed, full 3 br house....plus i have a lot of outdoor furniture and such too. i am not even a packrat either! i don't think we'll ever move, maybe at retirement, but that's it. well that, or win the lottery...and then sure, can afford whatever movers....;)
Are you guys talking about pro movers? Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks. I can't imagine it'd cost $9000 unless you're also paying them to drive your stuff from the one house to the next, which is probably unnecessary. Of course, renting the truck and its gas will run you, but there's no way to avoid that in either case. as someone above said, if you box your stuff up (after a garage sale), it'd be pretty cheap to hire someone to load it onto your truck and that is what is truly difficult. plus, they do it so often they'll do it in a fraction of the time it'd take you and your friends.
This is kinda one of the things I was suggesting. But my post was so long, probably nobody read it! :oops:
Someday I'll learn to edit! :lolno:
Like d2d, the last time my prince and I moved it was only 2 miles but we still hired movers. We did most of the packing into boxes but they did the heavy lifting. It was nearly 20 years ago so the price wouldn't help you, but it was SO worth it for our stress levels. I can remember moving into our first house years ago with the help of family and ending up furious at nearly everyone. One person refused to label any of the boxes he packed because "it would take too much time" so we didn't even know which room to put them in, furniture and appliances got scratched up, plus we got a lecture about how much we'd paid for our house! We decided we would never do that again.
:idea: Srsly, consider local movers to help you load up/unload. We used off duty firefighters and they were less expensive so you might want to check into that. They usually work one day on/2 days off so they often have other jobs on their off days.
it was crazy expensive...looking at the paperwork it was close to $9k for a studio/1br. i guess i should have stated before that my company paid for my move...otherwise i'd still be in florida. so yeah...if you can afford it!!
Well, now, that's ^^^ kind of key . We have to come out of our own pockets for this. If someone else were paying, I'd be on the phone...."come box up my stuff and load it. Load all of it. Yeah, everything. I'll get rid of what I don't need when I get there!"
You are moving because of a job, correct? Because if you are you really want to keep track of all these expenses for your income tax next year. If you have to pick up the tab, you need to save those receipts and record your mileage, etc. so you're not wishing you had all that info next April 15. :crazy:
imalive- you can do this by yourself- its no big deal really. You'll need the $$ for so much other stuff once you are moved. The mindset is adventure, change and journey and you will be making family memories. Its tough but nothing you can't handle. Plan well,sell what you don't need want, pack it on up, drive the truck, and unload that sucker- Play lots of PJ and lots of beer when done. Smile its over. We did 1300 miles and had to sleepover- you can do 400 thats like 6 hrs drive.My motto in life is never pay for what you can do yourself - thats why I'm still doing all the yardwork when most in our neighborhood have lawn service. It makes you feel good really.
That's kind of my motto, too. I change my own freaking oil!! I still don't particularly want to drive the truck. I keep thinking of blown radiators, flat tires and rollovers. :shock:
Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks.
are these like PRO loaders or the guys hanging out in front of the Home Depot?? :shock: :shock:
i'm about to do the 3000 mile move (again)...i got rid of as much as I could, shipped anything possible Media Mail thru the post office, and sent extra bags of stuff with anyone flying back and brought as much stuff with me over the past couple of months. Anything that is left in my room now is coming back in my car with me or is being sent back...
I hope you met the ridiculous requirements for Media Mail, or they'll bust your ass! Think "Newman" from Seinfeld!
i think for imalive, the bigest reason of such a high cost is how FAR you are travelling. i think conor had a good suggestion - hire pros to load and unload, but maybe do the driving yourself? me, if i were ever to do such a move, i'd probably hire pros all the way, 9k cost or not. i imagine if i ever moved that far, it would be for good...so yea....
I think I'm more likely to do the opposite....load myself and let someone else drive.
:idea: Srsly, consider local movers to help you load up/unload. We used off duty firefighters and they were less expensive so you might want to check into that. They usually work one day on/2 days off so they often have other jobs on their off days.
I'm a firefighter. Those guys don't want to do anything except stand around, bullshit, eat and drink beer!!
I think I'm leaning towards PODS. I need to get a price. This is happening next June/July and I am not looking forward to it!!!
If I had known then what I know now...
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VIC 07
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Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
i will be curious to hear how it all goes, and yes.,..curious as to how costly it will be to load/unload on your own, but pay someone to drive the truck. hey, at least there are lots of options!
Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks.
are these like PRO loaders or the guys hanging out in front of the Home Depot?? :shock: :shock:
:idea: Srsly, consider local movers to help you load up/unload. We used off duty firefighters and they were less expensive so you might want to check into that. They usually work one day on/2 days off so they often have other jobs on their off days.
I'm a firefighter. Those guys don't want to do anything except stand around, bullshit, eat and drink beer!!
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Well, I could plead the case that it was 20 years ago but the guys we used are still in business. I see their moving vans around town. Maybe it's the difference between Lost Wages and Texas firefighters! :think: :wtf:
Kudos to you for being a do it yourself guy, though! :thumbup: My prince also changes the oil himself on our cars and until I got my 2008 Toyota always did my tune-ups!
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you can save cash by packing everything yourself before hand
oh yeah, have a tag sale to get rid of all the stuff you think you need, but really dont
Well, now, that's ^^^ kind of key
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Are you guys talking about pro movers? Becos I was thinking that if you don't mind driving, rent a big ass u-haul and just pay hourly movers to load it for you and then hire another local mover to unload when you arrive. I doubt that'd be more than a couple hundred bucks. I can't imagine it'd cost $9000 unless you're also paying them to drive your stuff from the one house to the next, which is probably unnecessary. Of course, renting the truck and its gas will run you, but there's no way to avoid that in either case. as someone above said, if you box your stuff up (after a garage sale), it'd be pretty cheap to hire someone to load it onto your truck and that is what is truly difficult. plus, they do it so often they'll do it in a fraction of the time it'd take you and your friends.
Good idea about the hourly guys... I know that when we moved last year with a Uhaul, they even had a subcontractor where you could get labor guys through them to load/unload. I have no idea what it cost though.
From experience, moving hundreds of miles away usually means that you are going somewhere that you don't know anyone... Luckily I did it when I was single and my family came and helped me out. But if we moved our entire house somewhere new now, we'd have to atleast hire some people to help unload.
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Good luck!!!
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best answer right there
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these are the very reasons i'd rather have movers do it for me
me either...i'd rather burn all my crap than go through that!
seriously.
we moved 1.5 miles....and we hired pros.
so sure, the cost of the drive, nada really. we went from a huge 1 br apt, and i mean huge....as big as our current 3 br house. so about 1200sf each place. we also have a LOT of stuff. all my art stuff, books, cds, school stuff....hubby and all his bass gear, fishing gear, skiing gear...plus all the furniture, electronics, etc. it was exhausting packing it, can't imagine actually moving it. plus, most movers insure against breakage/damage, and that is helpful. nothing like ruining a prized piece of furniture banging it around. they also know how to best secure your goods in transit.
i think for imalive, the bigest reason of such a high cost is how FAR you are travelling. i think conor had a good suggestion - hire pros to load and unload, but maybe do the driving yourself? me, if i were ever to do such a move, i'd probably hire pros all the way, 9k cost or not. i imagine if i ever moved that far, it would be for good...so yea....
just even thinking of moving our current belongings..... :shock: . we are only 2 people, but we have a full sized basement, a garage, a garden shed, full 3 br house....plus i have a lot of outdoor furniture and such too. i am not even a packrat either! i don't think we'll ever move, maybe at retirement, but that's it. well that, or win the lottery...and then sure, can afford whatever movers....;)
moving blows.
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
Someday I'll learn to edit! :lolno:
Like d2d, the last time my prince and I moved it was only 2 miles but we still hired movers. We did most of the packing into boxes but they did the heavy lifting. It was nearly 20 years ago so the price wouldn't help you, but it was SO worth it for our stress levels. I can remember moving into our first house years ago with the help of family and ending up furious at nearly everyone. One person refused to label any of the boxes he packed because "it would take too much time" so we didn't even know which room to put them in, furniture and appliances got scratched up, plus we got a lecture about how much we'd paid for our house! We decided we would never do that again.
:idea: Srsly, consider local movers to help you load up/unload. We used off duty firefighters and they were less expensive so you might want to check into that. They usually work one day on/2 days off so they often have other jobs on their off days.
That's kind of my motto, too. I change my own freaking oil!!
are these like PRO loaders or the guys hanging out in front of the Home Depot?? :shock: :shock:
I hope you met the ridiculous requirements for Media Mail, or they'll bust your ass! Think "Newman" from Seinfeld!
I think I'm more likely to do the opposite....load myself and let someone else drive.
I'm a firefighter. Those guys don't want to do anything except stand around, bullshit, eat and drink beer!!
I think I'm leaning towards PODS. I need to get a price. This is happening next June/July and I am not looking forward to it!!!
Vegas 93, Vegas 98, Vegas 00 (10 year show), Vegas 03, Vegas 06
VIC 07
EV LA1 08
Seattle1 09, Seattle2 09, Salt Lake 09, LA4 09
Columbus 10
EV LA 11
Vancouver 11
Missoula 12
Portland 13, Spokane 13
St. Paul 14, Denver 14
i will be curious to hear how it all goes, and yes.,..curious as to how costly it will be to load/unload on your own, but pay someone to drive the truck. hey, at least there are lots of options!
Let's just breathe...
I am myself like you somehow
there's a difference?!!? :P
:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:
Well, I could plead the case that it was 20 years ago but the guys we used are still in business. I see their moving vans around town. Maybe it's the difference between Lost Wages and Texas firefighters! :think: :wtf:
Kudos to you for being a do it yourself guy, though! :thumbup: My prince also changes the oil himself on our cars and until I got my 2008 Toyota always did my tune-ups!