Hi! My wife and I are moving from Texas to Oregon, and this is actually our first move in the U.S. since we’re not from here, so we’re trying to figure out the best way to do it. Long-distance moving looks pretty expensive, and I’ve been comparing options like Penske, U-Haul, Budget, PODS, U-Box, and similar services. We live in a 1-bedroom apartment, but we’d be willing to sell some bigger furniture like the bed, sofa, and a few other things if that makes the move cheaper and easier. I’ve also thought about renting a trailer, but that would mean installing a hitch on my car. Would love to hear what people recommend for a move like this and what ended up being the most cost-effective and least stressful option.
What would you suggest for long distance moving?
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My husband and I moved our one bedroom apt from California to Texas. We did one pod, fit as much of our stuff in there as we could, fit everything else in our cars, and whatever didn’t fit in our cars we sold or threw out. We sold or donated all of our furniture except our mattress and foldable bed frame and one vintage chair I was attached to. But we didn’t have any nice furniture anyway. If you have nice stuff might be worth it to bring with you instead of re-purchasing. The pod cost us like 1000 (5 years ago). Im fuzzy on the details but I think they delivered it to uhaul and then we unloaded it from there. We may have even rented a uhaul for the day to do the final trip of uhaul to our new place. You can pay extra for them to do all that for you I believe. We drove both our cars filled to the brim with our boxes and made a road trip out of it, did some sight seeing. Probably everything including hotels, food, the pod, the second uhaul was like 1800-2000 total. And then of course getting furniture for the new place. I got almost all our furniture from buy nothing or fb marketplace, and some of it was very nice solid wood pieces so our new home is actually furnished very nicely.