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. My moves have been everything from chaotic and inexpensive, to organized and very expensive. 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 moved on to leasing a big moving truck at some point. I had to, of course, still bribe friends and family to lend their muscles. 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. They should really post bright yellow "student driver" stickers and "please give me one hundred feet of wiggle room" warning signs all over those trucks.
As I got older and more established in my career, my company paid for my moves. Now that was the way to go. Those guys came in and packed up the house faster than anything I have ever seen, zoomed away in their moving van, and brought everything into the new house. My job was to feed them and keep them happy, so they would not drop anything. 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). They packed up the house like they were a vacuum cleaner just sweeping up anything in their path. 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 are moving to a new city in a few months. We have children and appliances and adult things now. We are way beyond the renting a truck and bribing friends method. Additionally, we want to have more control that we did during our last move. We plan to combine the different options available. We plan to pack a lot of our things ourselves, so we know what is what. We plan to rent one of those moving storage cubes for some of the items we will not need when we first move. The moving storage company will drop it off, we pack it at our leisure, and they pick it up and move it to a storage warehouse in our new city. We will hire a moving crew to load the rest of the stuff and get it to our new house. 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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