I need to move for little money

[watdahel]

I want to move from NY to California. What's the best way to move my stuff? I only have my clothes and about 50 text books and stuff to take a long. I can either hire movers or ship my stuff via UPS. Driving all the way over there may be too expensive.

 

[mykol1010]

Can you just take everything on the flight with you? Extra bags beyond the first 2 check in is like an extra 50 bucks or something? Might be cheaper then shipping via UPS?

 

[QED]

I don't understand the hiring the movers part--- how do you expect them to get it from NY to California? Drive it themselves? There is no way in the world that will not be your most expensive option if that be the case...

 

[slayer202]

sending the textbooks via USPS media mail might not be too bad

Originally posted by: QED
I don't understand the hiring the movers part--- how do you expect them to get it from NY to California? Drive it themselves? There is no way in the world that will not be your most expensive option if that be the case...

what the hell do you think the point of this thread is? he doesn't know what to do, hence he is asking for help

 

[Savarak]

why bother keeping so many textbooks?? just to line a bookshelf to make yourself seem better than everyone else cuz you read them all?

j/k... usps media rate would be cheap... or, fly southwest, they let you bring 100 lbs check-in now, 2x 50... and only $25 more for 50 more lbs.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: Savarak
why bother keeping so many textbooks?? just to line a bookshelf to make yourself seem better than everyone else cuz you read them all?

j/k... usps media rate would be cheap... or, fly southwest, they let you bring 100 lbs check-in now, 2x 50... and only $25 more for 50 more lbs.

Textbooks are amazing sources of knowledge, and you seldom get it all the first read in class. It's great resource material, can be used in further classes, to double-check facts, for personal enrichment, etc.

I've never returned a textbook and if one is ever lost I replace it immediately. I also frequently purchase textbooks for classes I've never taken, just because they're highly recommended or of interest to me. I probably have 200-400 actual 'textbooks', and another 600-1000 'assigned books' from classes. For books I had to read or reference outside of the requirements add that many again (and yes, I always purchase every book I reference for a paper or project if it's available to be bought).

Yes, I know, I'm an anal, ocd, geek.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I've never returned a textbook and if one is ever lost I replace it immediately. I also frequently purchase textbooks for classes I've never taken, just because they're highly recommended or of interest to me. I probably have 200-400 actual 'textbooks', and another 600-1000 'assigned books' from classes. For books I had to read or reference outside of the requirements add that many again (and yes, I always purchase every book I reference for a paper or project if it's available to be bought).

Yes, I know, I'm an anal, ocd, geek.

Officer Barbrady, I declare shenanigans!

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I've never returned a textbook and if one is ever lost I replace it immediately. I also frequently purchase textbooks for classes I've never taken, just because they're highly recommended or of interest to me. I probably have 200-400 actual 'textbooks', and another 600-1000 'assigned books' from classes. For books I had to read or reference outside of the requirements add that many again (and yes, I always purchase every book I reference for a paper or project if it's available to be bought).

Yes, I know, I'm an anal, ocd, geek.

Officer Barbrady, I declare shenanigans!

Here's some of the last 3 semesters worth (plus a couple reference books and crap). I don't have the shelf space for the rest so they're up here.

To give you an idea of how quick it piles up, here's my college Sophomore developmental psychology books, all of which I still have (only a few were assigned texts, the rest went into my capstone research paper):

Elkind, David. The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.
Erickson, Erik. Identity and the Life Cycle.
Eysenck, Hans. Genius: The Natural History of Creativity.
Fancher, Raymond. The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy.
Gallagher, James. Teaching the Gifted Child.
Galton, Francis. Hereditary Genius.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Jensen, Arthur The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability.
Harris, J. R. The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do.
Kegan, Robert. In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life.
Keirsey, David. Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence.
Kohlberg, Lawrence. The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice.
Lazear, D. Seven ways of teaching: the artistry of teaching with multiple intelligences.
Papalia, D. E., Olds, S. W., & Feldman, R.D. Human Development.
Perino, Sheila, and Joseph Perino. Parenting the Gifted: Developing the Promise.
Piaget, Jean. Origins of Intelligence in Children.
Piaget, Jean. Psychology of Intelligence.
Sternberg, R. J. Beyond IQ: A Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
Terman, Lewis, and Melita Oden. The Gifted Group at Mid-Life.
Webb, James, Elizabeth Meckstroth, and Stephanie Tolan. Guiding the Gifted.
Weiten, Wayne. Psychology: Themes and Variations.


That was 21 books from one class...a sophomore general ed requirement at that. You should see the bibliography from my undergrad thesis secondary source section. It's not uncommon for me to have 30 assigned books a semester, plus another 20 to read for research papers.

I also counted my old high school texts in that also, so that padded the numbers somewhat.

 

[George P Burdell]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I've never returned a textbook and if one is ever lost I replace it immediately. I also frequently purchase textbooks for classes I've never taken, just because they're highly recommended or of interest to me. I probably have 200-400 actual 'textbooks', and another 600-1000 'assigned books' from classes. For books I had to read or reference outside of the requirements add that many again (and yes, I always purchase every book I reference for a paper or project if it's available to be bought).

Yes, I know, I'm an anal, ocd, geek.

Officer Barbrady, I declare shenanigans!

Here's some of the last 3 semesters worth (plus a couple reference books and crap). I don't have the shelf space for the rest so they're up here.

To give you an idea of how quick it piles up, here's my college Sophomore developmental psychology books, all of which I still have (only a few were assigned texts, the rest went into my capstone research paper):

Elkind, David. The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.
Erickson, Erik. Identity and the Life Cycle.
Eysenck, Hans. Genius: The Natural History of Creativity.
Fancher, Raymond. The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy.
Gallagher, James. Teaching the Gifted Child.
Galton, Francis. Hereditary Genius.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Jensen, Arthur The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability.
Harris, J. R. The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do.
Kegan, Robert. In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life.
Keirsey, David. Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence.
Kohlberg, Lawrence. The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice.
Lazear, D. Seven ways of teaching: the artistry of teaching with multiple intelligences.
Papalia, D. E., Olds, S. W., & Feldman, R.D. (2007). Human Development (10th ed.).
Perino, Sheila, and Joseph Perino. Parenting the Gifted: Developing the Promise.
Piaget, Jean. Origins of Intelligence in Children.
Piaget, Jean. Psychology of Intelligence.
Sternberg, R. J. Beyond IQ: A Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
Terman, Lewis, and Melita Oden. The Gifted Group at Mid-Life.
Webb, James, Elizabeth Meckstroth, and Stephanie Tolan. Guiding the Gifted.
Weiten, Wayne. Psychology: Themes and Variations.


That was 21 books from one class...a sophomore general ed requirement at that. You should see the bibliography from my undergrad thesis secondary source section. It's not uncommon for me to have 30 assigned books a semester, plus another 20 to read for research papers.

The shens machine demands more convincing pics. If you actually own that many books, you probably have one room of your house/apt blocked off as a study/library.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands
I've never returned a textbook and if one is ever lost I replace it immediately. I also frequently purchase textbooks for classes I've never taken, just because they're highly recommended or of interest to me. I probably have 200-400 actual 'textbooks', and another 600-1000 'assigned books' from classes. For books I had to read or reference outside of the requirements add that many again (and yes, I always purchase every book I reference for a paper or project if it's available to be bought).

Yes, I know, I'm an anal, ocd, geek.

Officer Barbrady, I declare shenanigans!

Here's some of the last 3 semesters worth (plus a couple reference books and crap). I don't have the shelf space for the rest so they're up here.

To give you an idea of how quick it piles up, here's my college Sophomore developmental psychology books, all of which I still have (only a few were assigned texts, the rest went into my capstone research paper):

Elkind, David. The Hurried Child: Growing Up Too Fast Too Soon.
Erickson, Erik. Identity and the Life Cycle.
Eysenck, Hans. Genius: The Natural History of Creativity.
Fancher, Raymond. The Intelligence Men: Makers of the IQ Controversy.
Gallagher, James. Teaching the Gifted Child.
Galton, Francis. Hereditary Genius.
Gardner, Howard. Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences.
Jensen, Arthur The g Factor: The Science of Mental Ability.
Harris, J. R. The nurture assumption : why children turn out the way they do.
Kegan, Robert. In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life.
Keirsey, David. Please Understand Me II: Temperament, Character, Intelligence.
Kohlberg, Lawrence. The Philosophy of Moral Development: Moral Stages and the Idea of Justice.
Lazear, D. Seven ways of teaching: the artistry of teaching with multiple intelligences.
Papalia, D. E., Olds, S. W., & Feldman, R.D. (2007). Human Development (10th ed.).
Perino, Sheila, and Joseph Perino. Parenting the Gifted: Developing the Promise.
Piaget, Jean. Origins of Intelligence in Children.
Piaget, Jean. Psychology of Intelligence.
Sternberg, R. J. Beyond IQ: A Triarchic Theory of Intelligence.
Terman, Lewis, and Melita Oden. The Gifted Group at Mid-Life.
Webb, James, Elizabeth Meckstroth, and Stephanie Tolan. Guiding the Gifted.
Weiten, Wayne. Psychology: Themes and Variations.


That was 21 books from one class...a sophomore general ed requirement at that. You should see the bibliography from my undergrad thesis secondary source section. It's not uncommon for me to have 30 assigned books a semester, plus another 20 to read for research papers.

The shens machine demands more convincing pics. If you actually own that many books, you probably have one room of your house/apt blocked off as a study/library.

haha, did you not look at the garage storage pics? That's about 6' deep, 8' wide, double high stacked banana boxes full of books (at least 80% of it). But I'm sorry, I'm not moving my car and taking down all the boxes to take pics at 130 in the morning. Hell, just the shelves in my room are almost 50 books per shelf (you can count them in the pic if you want). That's almost 200 just in my room from the last couple semesters. Just do the math and it works out (200/yr x 5yrs + high school).

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Need to move for little money? Sell books, move with more money, and you have less to move!

 

[Whoozyerdaddy]

Need to move with little money...

You sound like the opposite of a stripper... Good luck with that.

 

[kranky]

Not sure what happened to your stock market profits but anyway...

Dump the textbooks. You will have a library wherever you move. You will pay as much to ship them cross-country as you would have to spend to replace them. Not worth the expense. Whatever else you have other than clothes shouldn't cost that much to ship UPS Ground. It won't make any sense to hire movers - that will cost a fortune.

That leaves your clothes, which I assume you can take with you on a plane. Don't know how much cheaper you could make it.