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There is plenty written about moving to Oregon and almost nothing about leaving it. That is a shame, because the outbound move has its own list, and most of it is administrative rather than physical. The truck is the easy part. If you are heading out of state, here is what actually needs sorting, roughly

Most people arrive at storage sideways. The closing slips, the lease ends first, the new place turns out to be smaller than remembered, and suddenly there is a gap between having a home and having somewhere to put everything in it. Storage solves that well when it is planned and badly when it is improvised.

Two numbers decide most of what a move costs and how long it takes: the size of the truck and the size of the crew. Get them right and the day runs in one clean trip. Get them wrong and you are either paying for space you did not use or making a second run

You can plan a move down to the last box and still lose two hours to one thing you never thought about: where the truck parks. In much of Portland the answer is not obvious, and on the wrong street it is not legal either. Reserving curb space is one of the least known parts

The Fastest Way to Pack Clothes Is Also the Easiest Way to Unpack Them Clothing is one of the most time-consuming things to pack, and also one of the most commonly over-complicated. People fold clothes they should hang, hang clothes they should fold, use too many boxes, use too few boxes, and then spend moving