Moving van: about $1660 in rental fees alone (for the minimum size truck, not including gas, hotels, food, pain and suffering, etc). Even split 3 ways, that’s $553. Fees increase by a relatively modest $200ish dollars up to 17′. And there is a large price gap between that and 24′. <\/p>\n
About 2000 miles according to mapquest, assuming 10 miles per gallon, that’s 200 gallons, or about $400 in gas. lodging probably adds an additional $40\/night for a room Assuming 65 mph on average and 12 hours\/day driving, that’s 780 miles\/day, and thus three days, so two nights. Add $80. Food costs might increase, but I’ll be eating no matter where I am, and so I’ll assume that any increase is comparatively negligible.<\/p>\n
so, adding it all up, I’m looking at roughly $763 minimum as my personal portion of a threeway split of a rental plan.<\/p>\n
Flying would run me $85, if I left the first weekend in June. (bless you Sun Country Airlines<\/a>, though it’s unavoidably a redeye — Curse you, Sun Country Airlines). Given 7 boxes of books at media rate, (filing box size, something like 15x13x12) at about 50 lbs, that’s about $16\/box * n boxes, where n is in the 5-7 range (I’m paring down my collections. Quite a bit). That makes $80-$112. Plus two big boxes full of clothing & stuff, which should run about $100 bucks each. Max total: $397. <\/p>\n Price difference: $366. I think for that quantity, I can find satisfactory replacements for my unimpressive bed, desk, chair, and shelves. In addition to being able to sell the aforementioned items. And I save myself the misery of a cross country drive in a uhaul. (though I do miss the joy of seeing lots of places I’ve never been. Win some, lose some.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Moving van: about $1660 in rental fees alone (for the minimum size truck, not including gas, hotels, food, pain and suffering, etc). Even split 3 ways, that’s $553. Fees increase by a relatively modest $200ish dollars up to 17′. And there is a large price gap between that and 24′. About 2000 miles according to … Continue reading “A budgetary analysis of moving costs.”<\/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-829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829","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=829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}