So, not only do we have to close on the sale of the house soon, but we have to move out quickly as well. I'll talk more about our temporary home in a later post so for now, I will show you how we are moving our stuff. We opted for a storage unit to be dropped off on our driveway on Good Friday. Since most of our belongings are already out in the garage, it would be a short move into the unit. We went with a company called "PODS." The title of this post spells out what the acronyms stand for. Portable On Demand Storage. They drop off the unit, you pack it, they come back and pick it up, put it inside their storage facility (the Austin storage is off Dessau and Howard), and you tell them when to deliver it to your new address. The unit you see below is their largest (16 ft long).
I've always wondered how they dropped these things off. I thought the truck would back into your driveway and then slide it off like a dump truck would. I was wrong. This lift thingy with wheels drives off the truck and lowers it while your unit stays stationary. It's kinda like a forklift but not.
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The driver then controls it back onto the truck while the truck just sits on the street.
This is the inside of our unit as we load it. You can't tell but there is a lot of stuff behind the stuff that you see in the picture. Our couches, dressers and some mattresses are way in the back. Now you know how "PODS" work.
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