hello and welcome back so big big day as you can see it's looking a little empty
so uh we have officially like sold almost all our furniture we're getting all new
furniture for our move to colorado so um we don't have a dinner table so we're using
this fancy table for now usually we sit at our bar but we sold our bar stools i'll show you my
living room here this is our couch it's a bed so yeah so that is what's taking place today so it is
february 17th and we are starting to pack up a lot of our items here um just kind of getting them
ready because we close on our house in colorado on february 26th so it's getting crunch time we are
back out in colorado again next week and closing so on this first hall out there for closing we're
going to bring a bunch of stuff with us so that the second round we are officially out there so
um it's kind of crazy it's just so empty in here and yeah it's crazy but that's how it goes so time
to get packing and then eventually we're gonna be getting a u-haul trailer to pack more but
we'll be doing that a little bit later on not ready for the u-haul yet so
so a fun little trick i found on pinterest is for like our closet here we just took like some
garbage bags and put everything together in one bag for like all our summer clothes that we know
we won't be wearing anytime soon and we just like left all our warm weather clothes out of course
so that's pretty cool i'm really loving that and this is the domestic that is taking place in our
bedroom right now we pulled our bed out just so we could get back there and do some paint touch-ups
and usually we have a headboard and everything but we already took all that down but we got rid
of our nightstand so we're using some chairs for our nightstands for now so it's kind of crazy kind
of crazy right now so last night we actually spent all evening like packing up a lot of
our kitchenware and it's so weird because like our cabinets are empty i have one wine glass and a few
plates that's all we have right now but otherwise like so many of these cabinets are empty right now
um but we're like at that awkward stage where we have like big items like i'll show you we
have like blender and our meat grinder and like all these like really big items
and it's like do you put those in these it's kind of weird because like they can almost just kind
of be on like their own like why pack them in a box so i think those are like things that we're
not going to really like pack we'll just like put in the back of the truck and hopefully they don't
like get scratched or whatever but they're metal and so i don't think it's a big deal
oh and you guys i'm so weird if my brows look like crazy i just got them microbladed i had my
18 month touch up yesterday so they're like very vibrant because they have fresh ink on them so
if it looks funky in the camera i apologize but i had to get in before we left because i love my
lady that i go to and i'm gonna miss her so i'm like i have to get my touch up in so i'm good
so this is kind of where we're at thus far for the back of the truck
now we're gonna be able to like lay a lot of longer items because we have piles of things
over here so like here's some more of those items like all my large pictures and stuff you i mean
you don't really box those you just kind of wrap them and then we're just gonna like lay those on
top of that stuff in the back and then when we go pick up the u-haul we can start putting like the
larger items in there so like all of our kayaks a few furniture pieces and yeah i will say it's been
like really nice not having to worry about large furniture pieces we are like we're starting fresh
our house is such a different layout in colorado so a lot of the items i had like the bar stools
and um the couch and everything it just it went vibe well in there it's like well this is a good
opportunity to just start fresh sell everything and yeah you guys we're getting our trailer here
from u-haul this is the biggest trailer they got is a six by 12. so this will be for our first load
we got a cowboy
it's pretty big looks good right you guys the u-haul is at our house and we will be
packing it all up tonight so it's going to be crazy see how much we can fit in
the u-haul um so this is just our first run um to colorado with it um because we close on our house
friday so after we close we can start unpacking so we figured we might as well
do a load while we're you know heading down there anyway our hope is after this load we
just have one more load um we just get one more of these trailers and that's it so it's crazy
all right so we're taking a quick break um because as we're filling the u-haul there's so much room
in these u-hauls like we were thinking oh we're gonna need like two of these and now we're like
um we have so much room and we don't have that much stuff left to really pack so we
were actually thinking about bringing our bed the second round um we'd get it the same size trailer
and everything because we have a king bed and they don't fit tall um in like the trailers so we have
one of those lull beds which um when we ordered it it came to us in like this small box and then it
expanded once we took it out so we can bend our mattress like roll it up and so we're gonna do
that we're just gonna like bring our bed on this first round too because there's no point of like
getting another big trailer for the second round only for the bed so holy buckets now i'm going to
tear down the bread i guess and we're going to be sleeping on a blow up mattress from here on out
and there you go you guys that is the perks of having these memory what i don't really know what
they are yeah memory foam bed because now it's half the time a few straps couple of arguments and
you're good to go that's right so if we would have had a regular mattress where we couldn't fold it
like i said king beds don't fit in any size u-haul trailers so this worked out super well so since
we're closing this friday we're not there for very long so we're closing unpacking and then
literally coming back home on sunday so we have like everything ready for like a little camp out
because like we don't have a fridge and all those things there so it's like we're gonna be camping
in our house so i have started to pack all the essentials so it's easy to get to toilet paper
some paper towels we got a rug his little shower in the house and some bath towels and we figured
we could like start kind of cleaning the cabinets and kind of prepping them probably won't be like
unpacking until we're like 100 there brought some coffee my favorite of course caribou
i'm gonna miss them the one thing it really stinks there's no caribous in colorado which that kind of
hurts my heart because that's like my favorite and that's what we drink every day for our coffee and
i don't know i might have to like start ordering them i haven't looked in grocery stores yet to
see if they have caribou coffee in the grocery stores so that's like one of those things that
might be missed from minnesota you guys we are master packers
i don't think we could set anything more in this trailer um this is pretty awesome
this is some serious skill you guys good job we got it all in we don't have a lot
left so yeah round two we can just use a smaller trailer so that'll be awesome
but we don't have to get a big trailer again good job
just a few things i want to bring up about renting and moving um i just hopefully this
can help you maybe save some money in the process if you're making a long distance move i am part of
a moving to colorado facebook group and there's a lot of facebook groups
um that are from people who are moving to different states so arizona florida there's moving
facebook groups for all those types of things and so it's been really helpful just kind of seeing
and reading what others are doing if they're moving from you know california to colorado or
chicago or wherever they're moving from um but one thing i just i want to kind of bring up because um
moving is expensive it's one of the biggest expenses and so i've been seeing
um some people on the groups saying it's costing like six to ten thousand dollars
to move you know all their belongings from their state to colorado or wherever long distance move
and i know there's so many variables for everyone and so um if this can help anyone i hope it does
if you are able to move yourself you will save so much money if you do not plan on using any of your
furniture or your new house is a different layout like ours is and like your furniture won't work
just get rid of it sell it on facebook marketplace craigslist whatever get rid of it because if we
were to spend six thousand dollars on moving expenses i can tell you for moving all the
furniture that we sold to go free buy furniture we're not gonna spend you know six thousand eight
thousand dollars on new furniture like that's not gonna happen we need a new couch some bar
stools and a table that is no way six thousand dollars or more everything you pack and bring
with you is gonna cost you money because you will need a larger truck a larger trailer whatever it
is it's going to be more money so you know we got this 6x12 trailer which pretty much fit all of the
things that we decided to keep and it only cost us $560. for a one-way from minnesota to colorado we
drop off in colorado when we're done unpacking it and then for our second trip we're able to
get one of the smaller trailers so we don't need the large trailer and um that will be like a five
by eight and i think it's gonna be maybe like three hundred dollars $350 after all the taxes
and stuff by the time we pay for both of these trailers and probably the gas to get out there um
maybe $1200 bucks it's going to cost us to do all that by ourselves now i do realize we do have a
truck that can tow these trailers so i understand many people might not have that however you can
use if you have like a larger suv or something if it has a towing package on it you know
definitely consider that we also looked in to um possibly purchasing one of those larger u-haul
trucks it would have costed us probably about the same amount of money it's probably right
around the thousand dollar mark to just get one big u-haul truck um and do our move that way
however we have the two vehicles and we have a cat and stuff and i didn't want to like tow a vehicle
behind the u-haul and all these things we just kind of wanted to use our own vehicles for
everything so if you guys can move yourself pack everything yourself you can save a lot of money
some of the discussions in these groups are people hiring movers but really consider all
the stuff you're moving are you truly going to use it in your new house or are you going to be
eventually buying something new because everything you bring with you cost you money so if you want
to get something different in your new house don't pack it and spend the money to move it because
it's crazy money to do all that and um like i said i know everyone's situation is different
maybe you might not be able to pack and move everything on your own everyone has their own
circumstances you can save a lot of money by doing it yourself and just minimizing the stuff in your
house everything we packed every inch of our house we went through we either donated sold it
or threw it in the trash everything was very much thought about when we were packing so if
you are going to sell some of your furniture give yourself time to do that we started like a month
and a half before we knew we were closing because it just takes time to sell stuff and meet with
people and that whole process and i know it's a hassle but i mean it's cash in your pocket
too so all the stuff we've sold has pretty much been way more than what we're even spending on
you know this move so we came out ahead by selling all this stuff i hope this helps you guys
get some tips from this all right you guys the day is here every 25th it is 4 15 in the morning
and we're off to colorado for closing on our new house tomorrow um so fun fact we were supposed to
be on our way to Puerto Vallarta today but not not happening we ended up canceling that trip
not because of the closing but because of all the cdc stuff we couldn't risk being quarantined
in mexico so yeah now we have Uhaul and we're going to colorado so i say it's a pretty good
trade new house in colorado Puerto Vallarta i mean they're both great but yeah let's go
all right we are full to the brim on the road by 4 26 14 hours till colorado
such an exciting day today is the day we are in colorado we just left our hotel
we're at the human being getting a coffee it's like 9 30 in the morning we don't meet at our
house for closing until like 11 30 just giving you a scoop on the u-haul how'd it go hon good
it was super easy it pulled really well with our truck and that thing is packed full it
burns the gas it does burn the gas we've had to fill up a lot more and then as you're coming
you know this way you're climbing mountains and hills and stuff so they've definitely burned
the gas but overall it was really an easy trip with the trailer so highly recommend
good quality trailer didn't sway great tires like everything was good so right right
we're home there's the home we closed and it went amazing and we're officially home
and we're going to be doing the u-haul right now
ready go inside let's do it
here we go is it unlocked