C-Euro posted:

My fiancee and I are moving from the Chicago area to Philadelphia next month, and we're trying to how to best move all of our things over there. While we're both committed to off-loading as many large items as we can before the move (couches, one of our beds, other furniture), there are still a few things like my bed and my TV that I want to keep, and I'm sure she has some heavier things she wants to take with her as well, not to mention we'll have boxes full of assorted smaller items like clothes and kitchenware.

What are our options for getting everything over there? We talked about hiring movers to drive our things over, but according my fiancee it's at least $800 to do so, and with moving to a higher rent area and me not yet having a job lined up there that's a decent chunk of money to spend. I'd personally be OK driving a UHaul over myself, Chicago to Philly is about a 12-hour drive and I think we could get everything into a studio-size UHaul, but she's worried about me driving that far alone. There's also the option of tossing everything we can't fit into our two cars and just buying new stuff when we arrive, but again money is tight and I'd rather deal with the hassle of loading and unloading a bed, a TV, and maybe a bookshelf if we can save a few hundred dollars in the process. I've never had to make a move this far before, where leaving things behind makes some amount of sense. What do you all think?