Moving in Containers – Part 4 — The 21st Century Matriarch

It was a cloudy morning in State College, Pennsylvania when the last two containers loaded in Tucson were scheduled to be delivered and unloaded. The unloading would require steps down to the door of the apartment building and then a half flight of stairs up to the apartment (unlike the Tucson apartment where there were no stairs and dollies could be used).

The crew arrived with the two container (the U-Haul covers removed) and backed into the loading area. My daughter unlocked the locks on the containers.

Surprise! U-Haul had not taken the bolt they add from either container. Fortunately, my daughter had tools in the apartment so the bolts only delayed the unloading by about 5 minutes.

The two-man crew worked quickly – noticing the box that I’d labelled ‘last box’ in Tucson and finding one that wasn’t labelled at all (a mystery box…and demonstrating how tired I was by the last boxes to be packed). I began folding up the furniture blankets as they unloaded since we planned to keep them and the boxes for the next move (which could be in another year or two).

The dolly did end up being useful to hold the door to the container open while it was unloaded. It took the crew just over an hour to unload the 2 containers.