Camas Lilly
Recycles dryer sheets
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This subject is probably somewhere here, but I searched and didn’t find what I was looking for.
I would like to know about how much I should figure in moving costs to pack up and move a 3 bdrm. house, 2200 sq. ft. and move 1600 miles.
The trip with no load is about a 2 1/2 day drive (1/2 day longer that it used to be but we now prefer to limit night driving ). We will begin moving the outdoor equipment, tractors, implements, trailers, etc. well ahead of time and on our own time.
When move time comes, there will probably be a time element in getting from one place to another and getting the house cleaned up and on the market. We will also have several pets to move, and I would anticipate that to be a 2 vehicle process, getting there as fast as possible.
The household items, I originally planned on me doing a lot of the packing, us renting a u-Haul truck and then have the movers just come in and move the furniture. I have recently had second thoughts on us doing all that moving and driving after DH admitted that the trip is getting harder to do. He makes the drive 4x per year now.
My second thought was to have PODs delivered, but that still entails us moving a lot of stuff down stairs and out to the driveway. I guess we could do that with the things I can pack and move myself and this would save some cross-country drives. We are moving to a small town and hired help is usually hard to get, so I can’t just plan on hiring the local high school kids to come over for an afternoon, although I will look into it.
With DH approaching 70, I know his heart would be in the right place, but I don’t want this to be too hard for him or even worse, for him to hurt himself. He’s had back surgery, knee replacement and one shoulder replaced.
I’d like to find some sort of middle ground of being budget minded and what makes the most sense. I keep thinking it would just be worth it for the movers to just come in pack everything and be done with it. We load up the pets and go. I know that would be very expensive and I don’t have any idea what that would cost yet, but I wanted your thoughts on what you did and your experiences. I have been moved by a company before where we didn’t have to do a thing but get there, and boy was that nice! At what point do you decide to do that?
I would like to know about how much I should figure in moving costs to pack up and move a 3 bdrm. house, 2200 sq. ft. and move 1600 miles.
The trip with no load is about a 2 1/2 day drive (1/2 day longer that it used to be but we now prefer to limit night driving ). We will begin moving the outdoor equipment, tractors, implements, trailers, etc. well ahead of time and on our own time.
When move time comes, there will probably be a time element in getting from one place to another and getting the house cleaned up and on the market. We will also have several pets to move, and I would anticipate that to be a 2 vehicle process, getting there as fast as possible.
The household items, I originally planned on me doing a lot of the packing, us renting a u-Haul truck and then have the movers just come in and move the furniture. I have recently had second thoughts on us doing all that moving and driving after DH admitted that the trip is getting harder to do. He makes the drive 4x per year now.
My second thought was to have PODs delivered, but that still entails us moving a lot of stuff down stairs and out to the driveway. I guess we could do that with the things I can pack and move myself and this would save some cross-country drives. We are moving to a small town and hired help is usually hard to get, so I can’t just plan on hiring the local high school kids to come over for an afternoon, although I will look into it.
With DH approaching 70, I know his heart would be in the right place, but I don’t want this to be too hard for him or even worse, for him to hurt himself. He’s had back surgery, knee replacement and one shoulder replaced.
I’d like to find some sort of middle ground of being budget minded and what makes the most sense. I keep thinking it would just be worth it for the movers to just come in pack everything and be done with it. We load up the pets and go. I know that would be very expensive and I don’t have any idea what that would cost yet, but I wanted your thoughts on what you did and your experiences. I have been moved by a company before where we didn’t have to do a thing but get there, and boy was that nice! At what point do you decide to do that?