“Everyone talks about moving as if it was easy and affordable,” Dawn said. “Well, I am telling you it is neither of those things.” The 24 year old is in the midst of planning a move from Boston to the Dallas Fort Worth area. “My sweetie and I are moving in together. Complicating this situation is the fact I do not have a car. But on the good side of the equation, I don’t have a lot of stuff. What’s the best way to move a small load of household possessions a long distance on a budget?”
Researching rental moving vans gave Dawn a bad case of sticker shock. “It was well over my budget to even consider that idea,” she said. She considered renting a smaller vehicle and packing what she could that way, but that option had concerns of its own. “It’s a couple of days drive, and I would be on my own with all of my stuff. I didn’t feel like this was an excessively safe thing for me to be doing.”
Finally, someone pointed Dawn to the local pack and ship store. “It turns out that if I box up my stuff and bring it to them, they can ship it directly to my new address for a fraction – and I mean a small fraction – of what renting the moving van was going to cost me.” After talking about the cost for shipping household goods cross country, Dawn even discovered she was going to be able to bring some furniture she previously was going to leave behind. “We don’t have much, but we’ll have my two armchairs!”
By working with her local pack and ship store, Dawn was able to coordinate the arrival of her household goods the day after she flew into town. “It was great,” she said. “I was able to get to the apartment from the airport, decompress, nap a little bit, and then the next day, all my stuff was here.”
