Lots of Folks Move During the Year. Here's One Way to Do It Cost-Effectively.

[MineralMan]

9. That would have cost a lot more, actually.

One-way rentals with Uhaul are really expensive, and keeping one for a month just wouldn't have made sense. We did all of the comparisons, price-wise, and our solution was the cheapest and the most practical for our situation. It might not work for everyone, but it worked great for us.

Besides, we bought the truck a month before the move, and loaded it slowly during that month. We bought it after we had sold our house in California and took our time loading up.

In Minnesota, on move-in day to the house we bought there, we hired a moving crew to unload the truck and move stuff into the house. That was the best $350 we ever spent, for sure. No way did I want to unload that thing, and the guys who did it kept talking about how I'd managed to get all that stuff in that truck. I loaded it with a tape measure in hand and packed it absolutely full. I didn't even have to strap anything. Nothing moved, because there was nowhere for it to move.