Moving, Storage and the Chaos that Ensues
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by: joe.moesier
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During the process of moving, storage is a helpful resource. Whether you are choosing to do the move yourself, or hiring the whole thing out, you usually need storage at some point. Moving storage and I are good friends, as I cannot count how many times I have moved. I have moved the most labor intensive ways and the easiest. There seem to be more options now for the whole moving storage process. Perhaps all those moves made me open my eyes to some easier ways to get it done.
In my 20s, I did moving the cheap way. That involved friends, family and some borrowed vehicles. I seemed to always keep one of those storage rental places to keep all the stuff I did not know what to do with from move to move. I then progressed to renting one of those Uhaul trucks. That still required buying lots of beer and pizza for the people I would convince to help me. The worst part of the whole truck rental thing was actually driving that monster around. I cannot believe they let just anyone drive those things. Those rental trucks should be armed with loud beeping noises and flashing lights to warn people around them.
Once I was done with grad school and making money, I could hire a moving company. Now that was the way to go. The movers packed up everything, loaded it in the truck, drove the truck and unloaded everything. All I did was buy them some pizza (you see a trend with moving and pizza.) The problem with having the movers do everything, is that they were like a tornado. When I unpacked boxes, there was a ton of extra paper wrapped around things that did not need to be wrapped (like shoes and clothing). It was fast and way too thorough. Everything was put in a storage facility until the new house was ready. We had no idea what was in there.
We are embarking on yet another moving storage journey. We will be moving to another part of the country. We have children and appliances and adult things now. We do not plan on doing the move ourselves. We also are pickier than we used to be. We plan to combine the different options available. We will do a fair amount of packing for the things we care about most. We rented a moving storage box to put some of the things we do not need until the rest of the house is finished. The box will be delivered by the moving storage people, we will move things in there ourselves, they will transport it to the storage facility. The rest of our stuff will be packed up and moved by a professional moving company. We will have the moving storage company deliver the container from storage, once the second floor is ready on the house. We are steeling up our strength for moving again. At least we are now experienced movers and can come up with a moving storage plan that suits our needs.
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