Moving cross country, any recs to frugally move a 1 bedroom apt?

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I made the cross country move last year and used zippy shell. Thousands cheaper than pods.

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Interoffice mail all your furniture

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Sell all the furniture, not worth the hassle and cost. I did it (relocated east from west near client site) and flew 3 suitcases each week, was done with my move in 4 R/T

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Just did this 2 months ago, good luck OP!! Definitely daunting (and I had a broken hand during it all) but very happily settled in my new place :)

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I did a UBox from uhaul. Fairly easy and affordable. You fill the shipping crate and they drop off at new home.

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Look into ABF upack

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Rebuy the furniture and fly delta. If you're spg platinum you get free checked bag, then you get 1 for status, and open their card and that's three checked plus a carry on. I did two trips like this from NYC to SF and that was all of my stuff.

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Burn your current place down, collect the insurance money, move, buy new shit.

Thanks y'all!

And I alt traveled so the plane rides were paid for.

Alternatively, fly virgin and its only $25 per bag up to 10 bags. Taken all together the cross country flights plus baggage fees if necessary is still cheaper than a moving company (unless you wanna drive)

Thanks @d4, I'm delta platinum so I get the 3 free checked bags. Will definitely be taking advantage...Did you find that you got a decent enough return on resell to make selling and rebuying a cheaper option than moving?

I made whoever took over my lease be required to buy all the furniture (50-60% off the list price). Then ended up rebuying the same stuff. My stuff was IKEA though so around 1.1K total.

Door to door movers is another good pod alternative

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