Moving advice
 

Dear Chiefsplanet...

I am moving to Illinois and have a, basically, brand new queen size mattress and box that was very expensive and I do not want to leave behind or sell for $0.60 on the $1. I got a few quotes for shipping rates and they are all over $300 and come from some pretty seedy shipping companies.

I don't need to rent a moving truck as all of my stuff easily fits into my 2002 Audi Allroad (with a sturdy luggage rack on top) and don't need to pay $800 + gas for a Uhaul + towing (for my car) rental.

Basically, I want to get this queen size bed and box to Illinois (800 miles) without getting pulled over for dangerous hauling (or whatever it may be) and with the mattress arriving in 1 piece in good condition. My friends seem to think with a tarp and several ratchet straps it would be more than safe on my luggage rack, but man...I just don't see it nor am I good with this stuff.

If anyone has any experience in this sort of thing or has some advice or anything...maybe even instructions on how to do this without ****ing my car up, my mattress up, and putting an entire interstate of other cars in danger...I would be greatly appreciative.

Go Chiefs,

Damn. And here I thought Wendler finally decided to move out of mom's basement.

Buy a trailer. Haul mattress. Sell a trailer.

:shrug:

Queen size beds suck.

Throw it away and get a bigger one in Illinois
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I can't see it going on top of the car.

And I'm pretty innovative in these areas, mainly because I don't give a **** if I have to move something.
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but in order to buy a trailer I need to get the latch on the back of my car...is that worth it? Something I could look into I suppose.

1. Sell mattress.
2. Move.
3. Buy mattress.

I loved the All-road. That adjustable raised suspension was so ****ing baus. Really pissed that Audi scrapped that car after only a year or two of churning them out.

Plus those two-tone interiors were sexy. The V6 turbo gave a pretty nice purr, too, for a station wagon

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Hootie should see if Joey can lend a hand. Exiled ChiefsPlanet members unite.

craigslist, you can pay someone enough to do this for you

A hitch will run you $125-200 installed at U-Haul. Dunno exactly how much for your make/model.

Rent a uhaul trailer....pull your shit to illinois, return trailer to Uhaul for a hundo.

You mean you can't teleport??

Does you mean I can pay someone to strap it to my car? Or buy it off of me? Or ship it for me?

Pay someone to drive it with their own car. There are enough desperate schmos out there that will do shit like that for money. It will be expensive but much less than a U-Haul. Slightly more risk, they might just steal it from you.

Another option would be to find someone who is doing a cross-country hike from Texas to Illinois. They might carry it for you if they could sleep on it each night on the side of the road.

Cut it in half and strap it down. Sew it back together when moved in.

Bingo

Sell your car and buy my pickup.

Dear Hootie,

Don't be a douche nozzle and get banned from a pretty laid back website. Then you could ask your stupid questions yourself.

Love,
Diddy

terrible advice.

Start a website about the travels of "Madeleine the Mattress". Invite people to take the mattress traveling with them as long as they take pictures of where it's at. Keep tabs on the website as the mattress travels around the world having its picture taken at the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, and other interesting places. Wait until someone takes its picture in Illinois, and then go snag it.

Ask your local congressperson to start a program allowing significant federal subsidies to companies that move mattresses north. Take advantage of the subsidy.

Sell it to an illegal immigrant. Move to Illinois and start a lettuce farm. Wait until harvest and keep an eye out for that immigrant. Buy the mattress back from him.

You can buy freight space on a truck already headed that way for probably about $150 for something that will take up that little space.

Offer to put it in the pickup bed of a lot lizard at a truck stop, on the condition that she can use it for a month but must then give it to another lot lizard at the next truck stop to the north, with the same agreement. Eventually it will make it to Illinois and you can retrieve it.

If you drive fast enough you can fly it behind your car like a kite.

Seriously though Rick, with as much of a stud as you've told us you are in the bedroom I can't imagine you could get more than 6-8 months use out of a mattress before you have to invest in a new one. Are you certain its worth all the trouble to move it?

If it isn't a Temper-pedic throw it out on the curb and buy one when you get to Illinois.

You'll thank me later.

You all are going to be accomplices to a crime when it's discovered he Janikowskied 10 women on that mattress.

Drain the water out of it first. It'll become lighter.

A Hootie thread without Hootie.

Not bad to be honest.

rent a trailer at uhaul

mother ****ers, it'll cost, according to the uhaul website, around $250 for them to JUST INSTALL the necessary means for me to even be able to haul a trailer (without even renting one to begin with)...

it would be cheaper for me to just light the mattress on fire and buy a new one if I go that route.

if we are definitely ruling out the luggage racks on top...not a good idea at all?


I just returned from a 1 week vacation in Destin and my budget doesn't really allow for me to sell a $1000 mattress for $200 and then buy another $1000 mattress after moving across country again and shelling out 1st/last and another security deposit

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Really?

Sell the mattress for $200, buy a $50 piece of foam to sleep on for a few months until you can afford a nicer mattress.

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yeah.........

lol, it sounds like he wants it to magically appear when he gets to illinois and he's asking chiefsplanet on how to do that.

LMAO

There you have it. Old slap stick Hootie may have a little bonus DNA on the thing, but it's not like he hasn't had dealings with numerous STDs before.

ok fair enough I guess that's a no to the luggage racks

glad I asked CP and didn't attempt that idiotic idea across America

numerous STD's?! I had one, once...and it went away after taking two pills. Well it went away the 2nd time because I reinfected myself with the same girl before it was cured. (That's it)

Honestly i bet u can do it with 4 tie downs or less......

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Well, that was a hoot.

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Be very careful about what you strap to your roof. It might come back to haunt you when you run for president one day.

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You could just stop by one of those magician shops in Texas and buy a magic wand for $50. That might be your best bet.

The least shocking revelation of the entire thread is that Ricky sleeps in a Queen bed.

This whole thing is pretty entertaining. Tell me, Gochiefs, can you actually see the dead guy or just hear his voice?

well the queen fits in my room a lot better than a king...I mean, I'm not a 40 year old man...I'm fairly young, still living in an apartment...and for the most part share the bed with me, myself and I...

not sure what I'd need a king sized bed for...in fact, this is the best bed I've ever had, which is why I don't want to leave it behind.

This is why Hootie might want to aim higher than making $40K per year on tips.

I make plenty of money I just spend plenty of money as well...but hey, it's my life...I don't live beyond my means or have debt so there are worse people out there I suppose

Heh heh. You just said you can't afford to sell the mattress and buy a new one at your destination.

If Hootie is moving to my state it's time to get out.

if it is just the mattress you are hauling, and you have racks...you are FINE strapping it down brother....They are just ****ing with you.....As long as it doesn't exceed the overhang limits or block your vision....Strap that bitch down and roll. I have strapped so much shit down.....one queen mattress...piece of cake.

it's a queen mattress and a queen box and if he's ****ing with me I'm not going to be happy...I did research and I just don't trust it...I'd be willing to spend up to $200 shipping this thing but the cheapest I have found is $320...so it's either I find a buyer in 5 days or try the luggage racks and I really don't want to cause a traffic accident on the way home

Not shit, he will give you the herp! :eek:

spend 25$ on some nice ratcheting tie downs...if it doesn't exceed the overhang, you are fine.

You could also ditch the box spring, since they do JACK SHIT in terms of the mattress, and then pick up a box spring off craig's list when you get there..and just tie the mattress down.

Either way I can't see it being a big deal, just use like 4 tie downs...nad get them tight as ****.

Bam

Now that I know the whole story I have to agree. Get some straps, Grandma Griswold the son of a bitch to the top of the car and GO!

What could go wrong?

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wait, so this isn't Clayton? Where is Clayton?

Nevermind, I thought this was Clay. Like I give a **** where Pootie is moving.

if I am ever unbanned I'll give you some rep if I ever get into the green again

A Queen is 60x80
The roof racks for a 2002 Allroad are 48 wide.
6" overhang on either side
Dunno how far apart you can place the racks on the roof, but 80" is a lot to cover.
Carrying capacity is only 145# as well.

Doesn't look promising

I've got a call into a guy that works for a logistics company to see if he can get someone to deadhead it there for you or at least get it close enough that you could pick it up from a terminal.

You might be okay doing this, but I wouldn't do it. Too much risk for too little gain.

Also, this thread could go 1,000 and make it to the hall of classics if all goes well (and by "well", I mean "comically wrong").

He's moving back to your hood! PBJ

Just get a giant slab of butter, slather that baby up and push it down the highway. How hard could it be?

that's what I thought...I told my friend it was a queen and I've been looking at the top of my car and I just don't see how it'll work...**** again! I don't think I'm going to risk it.

Rent a U-Haul van. Pack. Drive to Illinois in the van with your mattress and stuff. Unpack. Drive back to wherever the hell Yavin IV is. Return the van. Get your car.