Advice for moving cross country? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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We (two people) are moving from the west coast USA to the east coast soon. I'm looking for ideas on how to do this as cheaply as possible. Renting a uhaul looks like about $5k before gas costs. Seems like a lot. Anyone have creative ideas?

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago

You can rent "pods", those storage containers they deliver to your house. You pack them up and then call the company once you're done and they put them on a truck and deliver them to your new address. Cost me about $2k for 3 of them to move 1000 miles. Lots of different companies have their own versions so call around and see which one is cheapest

[-] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Right on. Have started looking into those too. So far cost seems comparable to the uhaul.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Did this also. I think in total the trip was like 4k including the cost of 2 pods, gas in our own car, etc. Just make sure wherever you go has somewhere they can drop them, because it sucks ass to have to carry your stuff across a grass lot because the company couldn't fit their semi truck in the apartment driveway to drop the pods.

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