So, I checked in on the whole “moving my stuff to chicago for the summer” plan. The words “fat fucking chance” spring immediately to mind. Door-to-Door, which for some reason I expected to be cheaper than U-Haul turns out to be slightly more than twice the cost. Uhaul would cost about 400, including gas and basic rental costs. Each way. So that’s $800. If I sublet my place, I save $1200. If I rough it, and leave my shit here, I eat a potential $400 by leaving the place unsublet-able, but I save myself a massive headache. Like having to get a license pronto, or a friend to go with. Not to mention actually finding a sublessor. Well, and then there’s the $40 each way to get to chicago by bus. <\/p>\n
I think I’m coming down on the side of paying the ~$480 convenience fee as Totally Worth It. <\/p>\n
In other terrible news, the IRS never saw my income tax return, so the calvary I’ve been expecting any day now will likely be delayed quite a bit. I’ve already called mom. Grrsigh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, I checked in on the whole “moving my stuff to chicago for the summer” plan. The words “fat fucking chance” spring immediately to mind. Door-to-Door, which for some reason I expected to be cheaper than U-Haul turns out to be slightly more than twice the cost. Uhaul would cost about 400, including gas and … Continue reading “Is moving worth it?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}