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Originally Posted by ethnicappalachian
Personal belongings like clothes, electronics, musical instruments, etc. Nothing like furniture or appliances. Or maybe I could have a hitch installed on my car and rent a small trailer cargo? How about those rooftop storage cargo, are they good for storing things?
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What kind of car?
This kinda sounds like a lot of stuff to pay postage on. The trailer is the route I would go, assuming you're car can tow a reasonable trailer.
If your car can't tow a trailer or you have no interest in ever towing again check the price of buying a hitch and renting a trailer vs renting the smallest truck Uhaul, penske, etc. will allow you to tow a car dolly with.
I'm assuming hitch, install and wiring will be a couple hundred bucks. Might be cheaper to go with the rental truck. It'll drink more gas but after 12 moves in my life, trust me, you have a lot more stuff than you think!
And most importantly with a trailer, SLOW DOWN! Especially if you've never towed before. On the highway you'll start to feel confident, right up until the trailer that's wider than your car creeps over the white line, hits the rumble strips and snaps you out of your bubble of comfort.
I saw a family w/ a uhaul trailer behind a KIA SUV do 3 donuts on I-40 then shoot off the interstate, through a fence, across a frontage road and into a ditch backwards because of this exact scenario. I was in a loaded 26' penske box truck towing a car as they passed me around 80MPH. She was going WAY too fast. If they started their spin 50 feet sooner I have no doubt they would have been too close for me to slow down and their kids would probably be dead. That box truck would have not been able to slow down fast enough, it was everything I could do to prevent hitting them as it was.
The driver was really scared and upset, as she should have been after such an incident. But they crashed in front of a former firefighter and my former paramedic now RN wife and fortunately none of them were hurt. They shouldn't buy any lotto tickets, they used up all their combined luck right then!