Less Stressful Moves with Pods Storage
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by: joe.moesier
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We recently moved from one part of the city to another. In all our other moves, we used a traditional packing and moving service. It always involved a whirlwind team of people at our house who packed things right from under your nose. It always felt like I had no control of what was happening, in spite of that fact that it was my stuff and my house. Most of the time, we would have the majority of things packed ahead of time and let the movers do the big stuff. We would slowly dismantle the house and become engulfed with a sea of boxes. As we had no room to move during our weeks of packing, we longed for a one room to just stack all the boxes where they would be out of the way. If only we would have known about pods storage. We only saw two ways to do this. We hire movers or we do it all ourselves.
This move was different. We went with pods storage, after researching it a bit. They delivered the storage unit to our curb. The container was very secure and made of heavy steel. They come in all sizes, but we had to get a pretty big one for the contents of our house. For eight days, that pods storage unit sat conveniently for our moving needs. We would come home from work, have some dinner and a glass of wine (okay, I am making it sound more enjoyable than it really was), pack a couple boxes and move them out of the house and into the container. We took our time packing, which was a nice change from previous harried moves. The pods storage company even put us in touch with some movers to handle the heavy lifting for us. The day before the container was scheduled to be picked up, the movers moved our furniture and heavy boxes for us. A truck moved the storage from our house to the new house within a matter of hours.
The day you move can try even the most patient person. But if you also have to unpack the same day you packed, it can bring you to tears. The pods storage container can sit in the new location for a few days, allowing you to slowly unpack it. We had the same movers who did the heavy lifting a couple days before come to the new place that day and unload the furniture. We took our time to unpack the rest, which allowed us to get organized and not feel overwhelmed. The pods storage guys brought a truck and took the unit away when we finally emptied it. If you are not moving locally, the pods storage company also offers storage units in climate controlled warehouses until you are ready to receive your container.
In the end, it was much cheaper and much more relaxing to use pods storage than a traditional moving company. We had the storage unit for a total of three weeks and it ran us about the same amount we would have paid to lease a U haul for a weekend. It did not take us weeks to figure out where things were or remember what was packed with what.
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