Great moving advice is all over reddit.
Moving furniture across country reddit.
It s more affordable than many other services and doesn t require renting a truck or packing a pod.
I help people move for a living so i ve seen a lot of these tips playout in the wild.
If you are moving in with your bf he probably already has a lot of the house stuff you will need.
Moving an average sided 2 bedroom apartment about 1000 miles 2 full bed sets 2 office desks and chairs large couch small dining room set for 4 entertainment center with large tv lots of odds and ends etc.
They labeled all the boxes and furniture and made a list so that everything was accounted for before and after the move.
My biggest tip is amtrak express shipping.
Most of this is only going to be relevant for long distance interstate moves.
I ve moved cross country three times.
We also have two cars and this way we just had to drive each car across the country.
For me the cost of replacing all my stuff was more than the cost of the move so i rented a truck and hauled my crap 400 miles.
They wrapped my furniture loaded and unloaded truck and drove everything across country.
I highly suggest selling all your furniture on craigslist unless it s really worth it to ship it because the cost will be high as will the likelihood of it getting damaged unless you pack it really really well which can increase the cost.
So before the 2016 summer moving rush begins i wanted to organize all of it into one monster how to.
The service is called busfreighter and it can ship a whole room s worth of stuff from new york city to los angeles for about 160.
We did not have to tow one of the cars.
If you re just shipping some boxes.