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I used a hybrid of PODS and moving things myself for my move from NC to NH, and it worked out well. My house in NC was within their service area, so the POD was delivered right to my house. But my house in NH is out in the boonies, so the POD was delivered to their closest storage facility, about an hour away from where I live. For the rest of my move, I enlisted the help of my family (and their SUV) to help me move my stuff from my POD in the warehouse to my new house.

Even though I still had to do part of the moving myself, it sure beat driving a U-haul on icy New England roads in January!

I also liked that I could take my time with both the packing and the unpacking. I think I took about a week and a half to load up the POD when it was sitting in my yard, and on the other end I moved things over to my new house over the course of a couple of weekends.

I was in Home Depot shopping for grout a while back, and there was a couple next to me doing the same. The woman says to the guy, "Let's get the white kind. The brown one looks like it would just hide dirt." So I turned to them with my brown grout and said, "That's pretty much what I'm banking on!" They shot me the most disgusted look.

As far as "dangerous" goes, this doesn't bother me nearly as much as shelves or cabinets above the bed.

Awesome job, Liz! And so exciting to see Durham represented -- I live just a couple miles north of Old West Durham.

Not more than 25%?! Whoops....

I had a bird fly into my house once. He sat on the curtain rod and pooped on the curtain, before making a graceful (and luckily unharmed) exit.

Bungalows with big front porches were popular in the town where I went to college. Those were the best houses for parties!

Ha! My friend had that exact same coffee table -- until my dog gnawed it. I felt horrible; offered to pay for a replacement. But it did give him the incentive he needed to buy a new one...

Garage conversions are really common here in the south since our climate is so mild. But they don't look nearly as good as the conversions shown here. Usually they still retain that "garage" look in really obvious ways -- bay windows or sliding glass doors right where the garage doors used to be, etc. You're not fooling anyone, buddy...

In our family, Christmas stockings were a kids-only thing. So once my brother and I graduated high school, Mom retired our old stockings. But they were so great for stuffing small gifts into! So now our family has a new tradition: "adult stockings." They're simply wine gift bags filled with the usual stocking-stuffer fare.