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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One out of the box idea - if you’re willing to drive a U-Haul or similar, you can cut your costs waaaaaay down. You could pay packers, then pay “moving helpers” to load the truck, then another set of moving helpers to unload on the other side. If you were planning on driving anyway, it’s not any skin off your nose, and a lot of U Hauls will let you tow your car. When I priced out movers, for a long move (although not that long) it cut my costs by 2/3rds.

Outside of that - the details of my move were different, but I also considered selling everything instead of moving it. There’s costs either way. But what I found is that if you have even just ONE piece of furniture that you’re unwilling to sell and want to keep, and thus you have to get some level of movers, the math immediately swings towards just moving all your stuff. The cost savings of decreasing the amount of stuff you’re moving is not enough to make up for the costs of having to buy stuff, so at that point, you’re better off keeping everything. Just something to think about. [/quote]

I did this too and saved a ton of money.  Basically you're not paying for the man hours for an entire moving crew to drive numerous hours with your stuff.[/quote]

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