Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire How do you move cross-country?

Lots of options, but the smartest, IMO, is to pack your clothes and personal items such as firearms, artworks, pictures etc. Hold a bigass estate sale. Sell all the big stuff. Load your basics in a Uhaul and drive.

Replace your furniture etc when you get there. Life is easier and you trim your possessions down which most of us could stand to do.

Screw moving. I’m done. I moved a bunch as a kid, so no more for me. My next move will be 7 miles down the road, and will be done with a 12’ trailer and an F-150.

Well I’ll just wish you all the best Bob. And wonder what your new handle will be ?

30 years in same house here. It seemed so huge and empty when we bought it.

Now it’s the proverbial 10 gals of chit in a 5 gal bucket

Amazing how much stuff you can haul home one pick up load at a time over 30 years.

Tempted to call police and tell em someone broke in and left all this chit here

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You're welcome.

Thanks everyone!

We've been married 31 years and in this house since 1996. We are going through stuff we can get rid of. We have a bit of time, we will by in WY in mid-Jan trying to button down where we will actually live. Then decide to rent/sell our current house.

Our best guess is that we don't think we can make this happen before early April, but time will tell.

ROFL!
I hear that!

Hand carry the irreplaceable photos and memorabilia. Birth certificates, diplomas, and other important papers as well.

That was mean!

I like Ellie Mae

i have a house in phoenix, and a house in prescott, with three detached garages. my family goes back in arizona to the 1800's and i am a known packrat. it would take a detachment from the U.S. army to move me. I have the problem solved tho, a one way ticket to the cemetary and let the daughter take care of the rest of it. She is a packrat too, would be interesting to watch.
i have stuff dating back to the 1860's in kansas.

I remember not so long ago when I could pack everything I owned into the back of my Ranger and be set up and living at the other end of the country in about three days. I hate to even think of moving now. I think I'd rather be shot at.

Company paid moves aren't moving.

TFF

One thing to add to my previous post.....can’t believe I didn’t mention it.....if you are going to move your own gun safe, rent a motorized dolly. $150 well spent. I moved mine the old fashioned way one too many times and ended up with an inguinal hernia.

Tell that to my wife LOL. I was in China, she handled all of it.

Oh schit!

China a different deal! LMAO.

I have so desperately wanted to pay for a move but never brought myself to do it. This last one was brutal.

I’ve done a couple cross country moves. Great opportunity to jettison a bunch of schit you haven’t laid eyes on in the last year.

If I did it again, it’d be more if the same. Big azz garage sale, Goodwill, then rent a construction dumpster if needed.

I moved from Alabama to Oregon five years ago. Researched all the possibilities, and settled on this...
https://www.uhaul.com/UBox/

Packed everything ourselves, sorted it and sold or donated stuff we didn't use. You take your truck to U-hail, they put one of these boxes on a trailer, you haul it home, fill it up, and take it back to them and pick up an empty--just repeat until it is all gone. They store them until you are ready, then load them on a truck that delivers them to the u-haul nearest your destination. Meanwhile, you have driven across country with your guns and important stuff packed in cars and truck. When you arrive, use the truck to reverse the process. It's a lot of work, but you save a bundle.