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I want to move from Tennesse to either Colorado, Neveda or Utah.. but I can't go because i have about one bedroom worth of things to take with me. I don't want to leave them in storage hoping that i can get them in one day and can't pay a company to drive my belongings to another storage place.
I would drive a rental truck but I have my Honda here with me.
Last, there are no relatives who can drive the truck while I drive the car.
Please share your cross country moving experiences.
You didn't say what your car is but another option is to get a uhaul trailer that attaches to the back of your vehicle, you will need a hitch to do this. Sell your big stuff and put whatever is left in the trailer and move.
Personally from someone who's moved ,ore than once,
furniture is a P in the A. If possible just take what you can,sell your bigger items and perhaps even rent a small trailer for the car to haul any items that wont fit in the car.
TN to those states would cost 1,000 or more with gas renting a u-haul plus the trailer.
The Honda is your car? What kind of Honda? If it can tow a small U-haul, that would be the easiest and cheapest.
If your car can tow a small trailer but not one large enough to carry all your stuff, sell some of the stuff. If you're certain that your car isn't large enough to tow any kind of trailer, then rent a truck with a tow dolly.
If any of it isn't worth the expense of moving (car or bedroom stuff), sell now and replace when you get there.
I want to move from Tennesse to either Colorado, Neveda or Utah.. but I can't go because i have about one bedroom worth of things to take with me. I don't want to leave them in storage hoping that i can get them in one day and can't pay a company to drive my belongings to another storage place.
I would drive a rental truck but I have my Honda here with me.
Last, there are no relatives who can drive the truck while I drive the car.
Please share your cross country moving experiences.
Keep things with meaning to you--maybe heirlooms or high school yearbooks, or your collection of X-men figurines. Sell the rest and line up a furnished rental for your landing zone. You'll probably move at least once more before you find a permanent place. Moving is hard on possessions, stuff gets damaged or lost.
We moved 10 times in 3 years. The 2nd move was to Hawaii; it's really expensive to ship stuff here, so we got rid of practically everything. Moving with just suitcases was a breeze, but we did have a furnished rental house reserved for the first month.
Then we tried different parts of the island, accumulating stuff along the way (garage sales are a great source when you have very little). We moved 8 more times using our pickup truck, and put stuff in storage a couple of times when we went to the mainland for a month at a time. Nearly everything was damaged somewhere along the way, and we replaced most after buying a house.
12 years later, we're moving back to the mainland. We're selling the house furnished, and even getting rid of a lot of heirlooms that I shipped over the first time (I'm sending them to my nieces). It's very freeing.
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