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My family and I are moving next month and I’m looking for some thoughts on my current plan. This is a local move (5 miles).

We currently live in a small house (1000sqft) and we have a decent amount of stuff. In the process of clearing out the house to list it, we have put a substantial amount of our items in the garage/basement. Both of those rooms had plenty of boxes/items that we already needed to go through and organize, with the new influx of clutter, we now have very little room to work.

Therefore, my plan is to get a pods/upack so we can declutter and organize some items over the next month. Then when it comes time to actually move, hire movers for the large items (hot tub, treadmill, chest freezer…etc).

My only reservations are it seems that pods doesn’t have the best reputation for being timely and we have a relatively tight window (1 month) to move out of our house and into the new one. I’ve also heard that hiring 2 moving companies can cause some friction but I don’t personally see why that would be an issue. I wouldn’t be asking the moving company to move anything into a pod.

Aside from thoughts on my process, I would like to know if anyone has had good luck with pods for local moves?