Should i move across the country

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If you want to get maximum value, list your stuff a few weeks before you move so buyers have time to find it. About a week before I moved, I blocked off a single afternoon to be my Craigslist Afternoon. Anyone who wanted anything had to come over within those hours.

Ever heard of a "Stock the Bar" party? This is basically its opposite. I decided my going-away party would be a Take My Stuff Party, where friends could come over and grab whatever they wanted. This will take a little research. You could rent a truck and drive it yourself, but that's time-consuming and probably dangerous—honestly, how much experience do you have driving a bulky, loaded truck through, say, the mountains of Colorado?

Or you could ship your stuff and book a flight, reuniting with all your belongings on the other end. There are a bunch of companies that specialize in this. They load your boxes into the extra storage space under Greyhound buses that are already driving across the country. So much time wasted having a meaningless argument! Try to live in your new space for four to six weeks before you make any big purchases.

You want to understand how you live in your house or apartment and then start buying. Before we moved, we were absolutely certain that the second bedroom would be our master bedroom and the front bedroom would be a den and office area. We nearly bought furniture based on the layout dimensions before moving in.

Once we moved in, we changed our mind three times and ended up finally making the front bedroom our master. We would have had fewer options had we bought furniture before moving in. As time went on, I started to worry. New York to L. Traveling with our kittens meant both of them would be in carriers, and those carriers would have to go under the seat in front of us.

Not to mention that I feared the judgmental sighs of our potential middle-seat neighbor who would learn he was sitting in between two cats and complain. What can I say, it was a six-hour flight and I am a people pleaser. But guess what? I was so happy to have that extra space on moving day.

So were the cats. Moving can be