My long time readers will know that when I moved to Hawaii, I pretty much sold and or gave away everything I owned. The stuff I couldn’t bear to part with, I boxed and mailed. The boxes I sent to my sister and she kept them in her garage until I went home a few weeks ago. Now those boxes — mailed again — are showing up at my door one at a time — the wrong one at a time. The winter coats arrived today. We so don’t need them now!
At any rate, I just learned there was a much easier way to do all of this! I could have kept a lot more of my stuff and it all would have arrived at once. I suppose I am the last one on the planet to learn about portable storage. One of Amoeba’s colleagues mentioned it the other day (she just moved from Friday Harbor to Hawaii) and I had to look it up.
There is this absolutely nifty self storage site online that lets you look for storage — movable or stationary — and they have over 12,000 locations nationwide! That is so cool. So why didn’t I know about this when I was moving?
This was a sponsored post. The links were removed on 10.12.09
That’s good information to have. I will keep it in mind when i win the lottery this week, retire and move to the mountains.
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Nessa — pft. When you win the lottery, have the mountain shipped to you!
How cool is that? I never heard of portable storage, either, til now. Mahalo for the tip, Quilly. My niece is moving from Austin to New Zealand and might find it handy.
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Gigi — I am glad to be of service! A friend of mine just moved from Nevada to Texas using portable storage and she was quite happy with it.
Sponsored post?
Doug — shhhhhhhhhh — they didn’t want in-post acknowledgment that it was a paid commercial. Other than that, all the personal content is true. I will never lie to anyone to sell and ad.
I actually know that you wouldn’t. I have every faith that your endorsements are sincere.
Thank you. My integrity is important to me!
LOL! Because NONE of the people you read do PAID posting??? That is cool though! I didn’t know about it either!
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Melli — no. The directive wasn’t to ME. It was to anybody picking up the ad. I think the stipulation was put in place because many people skip paid posts.
The storage part I get, but don’t you still have to ship it?? I like how you intermingle the paid posts with real life events. Very creative.
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Church Lady — the storage company brings the storage pod to your home. You fill it with your possessions. Then the storage company comes to get it and delivers it to wherever you want it. Moving made easy — all in one “box”. OR, you can put your stuff in the box and have them store it in their lot. Or, you could just rent a local storage unit. And all of that can be done from this one website.
Shipping it Cargo would have maybe been an option too…
.-= Nicole´s last blog ..Fake Promise =-.
Nicole — the price of cargo to Hawaii is way too dear. I have no idea why. Cheaper to send it to you!
Do they have a Canadian Chapter Quilly? I think I am in need of movers and storage folks as I played my last trump card and I am in search of a new job. You heard me right, so I figured if I got to look for a new job, might as well do it back east in Ontario where I am closer to my sister.
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I don’t know, Bill. Enter your search terms in the website and give them a try. Sorry to hear about your woes. I have offered a prayer.
My soon to be (I hope) ex and I actually have two storage buildings. He seems to be allergic to cleaning them out.
.-= Jill´s last blog ..Me Worry About Asteroids? Nah, I’ve Got Twitter =-.
Jill — WORK! (Maybe he’s related to Maynard G. Krebbs.
I’ve moved so many times, and usually classed each move as an excuse to discard stuff. Now I’m settled after 30 years of moving around, AND in a smaller house, boy is it piling up!
.-= Anthony North´s last blog ..TIME TO THINK =-.