As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I promised to post about the moving adventure in how to do it the most cheaply as many of you are going to have to do it or have family involved in it. I am not regretfully being sponsored by any of these people so without money I am only giving them good publicity.
What we did was shop around and found that for around 500 miles in moving that the prices were 1300 dollars to 2000 dollars. That included in most cases our packing and driving the whole way. The cheapest was U Haul which was reputable at 1300 dollars, but that caveat Catch 22 involves of course your paying the gas to fill it up and the cost per miles.....more on weekends than on weekdays, so one was looking at around 1500 dollars, plus the problem of driving a truck through traffic with idiotry on the roads.
By God's Grace, we happened upon a company called U PACK IT. They have two moving models which you can use in they have pods to pack things in.....which we were not informed of, and semi trailer pups to load, which you then put in a bulk head to section off your boxes from the rest of the cargo being loaded.
That was a little under 500 dollars for around 7 feet of cargo space, and this is what we decided upon.
I had no idea in hell how to get things to the depot to load it, as that was the cheap rate, and if a trailer was parked at TL's it would be too tight, so the Lord came up with a U Haul truck, a 14 footer as that is the minimum size for a ramp, and that is a necessity, with Home Depot boxes and tape to get things moved.
TL lived on the second floor which meant stairs and that brought about the Holy Ghost getting us to buy that outboard motor for 50 bucks and this industrial dolly to pound down the stairs which saved our backs immensely.
The neighbor kid did not use his garage so we sort of hijacked the space and piled our things in there unknown for 3 days before we loaded the truck which we rented..........around 80 bucks in the metro, and me upset about the drop off point, the Holy Ghost said, "Rent another truck at the drop off and solve it."
So that is what we did in busting our butts in moving, loading, unloading, loading, loading and unloading again.
We picked up a metal shed for sheds for less on sale, around 400 bucks which was cheap for TL's things in the brier patch, and then the nerve racking having to have everything match as truck had to be on time, as did all the other trucks and by God's Grace, with a little jacking on the phone to get U Haul to get things done, and we were upgraded to a 20 foot truck in the final 50 miles we had to haul things, and it all sort of got things done somehow in a haze of exhaustion.
So the tally was in people trying to run us off the road, as of course I am supposed to yeild on the interstate to those idiots in Iowa who own the on ramps, and a skirt who decided to drive like she was drunk in sluffing the truck bumper off.........and it all came to around 500 bucks for the U Pack........190 bucks for the U Haul, plus of course you have to fill up the tank to where it was to 3/4's or full when you took it..........and a 400 dollar shed.
I know that math is short a bit, but we got around half of the cheapest cost or we got a shed in the deal for what the cheapest was going to be.
The first U Haul truck was.........well the transmission was trying to go out, and it steered like a rocket on a rail, and that was unfun in metro heavy traffic.......the last U Haul was about brand new, so I tested it out at 75 mph on the road, knowing of course not to oversteer and flip the thing.
The shed was..........well it was not Lego easy ok. It was hard, as in 2 days of difficult in putting it together on the deadline, as U Pack gives you 3 days to unload, but they need notification, and U Haul in the middle of nowhere just does not have trucks show up, so we had to drive 50 miles to the U Pack drop off, to get the U Haul truck.
It was tough to say the least, as it all had to be timed, and done with no turning back. The devil sent a hell of a storm with wind and rain two days previous, and the bitchweed at the metro decided to act like the KGB in moving out in photographing the place and being all pissy, but in the end, God somehow got us here, and everything that had to hit the date, hit the date, as TL yawns on my shoulder as we type this up.
I do recommend U Pack It. They have really good people, and the trucking company in ABF has the best of people in helping and hauling freight. Apparently a number of people use this and it is unknown to most people.
I would give these caveats. This is work. This is an adventure which requires your knowing how to drive a truck. It requires knowing how to use straps to tie things down in a truck. TL did really great work in only one box shifted. You need a blessed good dolly to move things. You need good heavy packing boxes, and you need time more than you figure in most cases.
You also need to know how to pack and load, as to heavy on bottom and light on top.
Lastly, you need God of course, and the best thing of a U Haul with a ramp which you can place directly in the semi pup, so it is just wheeling things into the pup, without falling 5 feet to the ground or getting the load run away with you on the dolly as for some reason gravity just loves to pull a hundred pounds away from you.
We are pleased this is done, and this is the best we could come up with, and as no one ever writes of these kinds of things.......as I suspect all the rich people writing about moving, get "niggers" to do the heavy work in the imported Mexicans or blacks to do it all, while they play golf and tennis, complaining about all the trauma of it all.........so that is the hands on assessment again of the million dollar knowledge.
I want to say again that the truckers were the best of people, as were the dispatchers. The people who ran the U Haul places were most helpful and friendly too. It all worked out, and I could not have done it without God and TL. TL is a Godsend in all things and someone who is like TL makes all the difference in putting in the plough deeper when it needs to be to get things done.
It all seems like some haze yet to us, as we recover, and are in the process of racing winter to put up another storage shed, this time without Chinese directions writt3n in Spanish.
They still owe us a door screw :)
I hope that helps people and saves them some money and time. This is something which people are going to have to know if they get displaced or have to move for job or security. We are thankful we are at least in country again and can see the horizon as to what we are shooting at again as the clutter is not that large here.
I think that is about it on things of this sort. I do not think anything really broke, except a few plant stems and God does watch over things, thankfully.
With that, thank you to all for the good blessings and kind words. LC and TL.
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