1. get a draft of my thesis in
2. rob needs to finish fixing what he's fixing and get the van in for repairs/tune-up
3. pack the rest of the apartment
4. ask landlords if we can leave some stuff in the basement
5. book flights home from calgary
6. take a load of stuff to the dump (paint cans)
7. take at least one load of stuff to value village
8. return a few things to canadian tire and zellers
9. try to do at least one more interview before I go
10. renew library books
11. get paperwork to have advisor added to my file officially
12. get host gift for calgary
13. get something to wear to the wedding
14. get cat food/litter for ottawa
Maybe that's it. Now let me tell you a story about Uhaul.
So we finally decided okay, we better book the freaking Uhaul. The plan was to book it for monday the 25th. This was the decision after cycling through options like towing a Uhaul trailer (no more one way) or driving a car and coming back later. We call up and the quote is $400. We are gasping for air. We book it. The guy said "supply and demand"...it's more than twice what we paid to get here 2 years ago. We start looking at options. At first we were going to book a cargo van and pay a friend to drive it back for us. We cancelled the Uhaul booking.
We went in circles checking options, having ideas, wondering how it could work. We did some math, the friend idea wouldn't work, the rental van doesn't have a bench seat and I'm not okay wth someone on the floor for 6 hours. We would take this first load and then after calgary rob will pick up the yellow van with the rest and bring that home. For a while we had a sedan so we could all fit (cats coming in first load), but then what to do with all the stuff? Eventually (that same night as the $400 booking), we decide we better just use the Uhaul, get it done in one shot and then suck up the $200 premium.
The next morning, Rob calls up to re-book the uhaul. Price? $650. No kidding. "Supply and demand". Unbelievable. Rob decides this is unacceptable. Now the premium is so much other options make more sense. We didn't get rid of all our furniture for no reason. He books the cargo van from enterprise for one day. We will drive it back to ottawa monday, he will turn around and return it to waterloo, then take a bus home. Savings of about $400 plus gas difference. Rob's price? An in-car gps on massive sale at canadian tire. Plus, I got us a 20% off coupon code.
We can handle that. And Uhaul can suck it.
4 comments:
no kidding! $650?? that is ridiculous. Good for you for not going for that. It was nice talking to you, we should do that more often. Take care and good luck with your to do list
Okay, I'm confused ... Waterloo, Ottawa, Calgary ... "WHERETHEHECK" is RIGHT!
I'm so glad you didn't book with U-Haul! Even if you book a small truck, you might end up with a 24 footer like we did! Urrrrrg!
@ sylverrr: you bet, it was a huge boost for me yesterday. see you soon.
@ tania: I feel you. I'm confused too. It's a bit of a chose your own adventure for us right now, complete with going back and changing our minds when a decision results in us eaten by a monster or something.
@ carolyn: I totally thought about your huge truck and how little stuff we really have..I would have been furious to spend $800 to cart home two van loads of stuff. I'm kind of glad uhaul raised their prices, it helped us make a better decision.
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