Moving-Part 2: Let's pack our own boxes!

Guest post by Susan (John's wife)

Our goal for moving progressed from, "Let's save money as much as we can!" to "Let's save our sanity as much as we can!"  

And here's how it went down:

First, we thought about loading up a truck and taking a road trip to see all our dear friends and family on the way to Boston. It would be a big trip! So memorable! With stops at Fort Leonard Wood, MO, St. Louis, MO, Evanston, IL, Cleveland, OH, Northampton, MA to Cambridge, MA (quick shout out to all our friends and family in those cities!). 

This thought was quickly revised when our littlest Kang (oh, how I love him!) cried in the backseat on a 30 minute road trip to H-E-B during Houston rush hour traffic.... No good.

So maybe not big road trip. But maybe John can drive the truck by himself. That means Susan will have to take one (wonderful) nursing baby, one (wonderful) toddler all by herself through airport security, ride in a 3+ hour flight, push the double stroller to baggage claim, pick up the pack and play and the suitcases, and somehow push the stroller and the bags to get outside the airport to meet a taxi, and.... No good.

So maybe John doesn't drive the truck. But maybe we can save on miles and get these tickets that have one stop. Our trip would start out leaving Houston around 1pm. After an hour and a half layover, we'll arrive in Boston at 8:44pm. Probably get to the new house around 9:30pm with one (so sweet) nursing baby and one (so sweet) toddler who have not slept well all day and will be up way past their bed time.... No good. 

Wait, we already got the tickets.... No good.

So maybe we don't save on miles and spend more money and change the flight to a non-stop flight that arrives at 3pm. Good! So good!

Oh, and what about our things? Well, maybe we can save money by packing our own boxes. Boxes? Yes, that we can do. Let's pack our own boxes! 

Where did we get the boxes?

John found them on usedcardboardboxes.com. 

It came with tape, markers, and packing paper. Really awesome.

As for other logistics:
We used moveline.com to find a moving company.
We used Plaza Auto Transport to move our car.

By the way, we decided Isaac's room is the best place to store all the boxes. So now our toddler's room looks like this: