Container Shipped today , and 3 days to Go

Local team of packers/movers were here yesterday to get the items ready for the container thats due to arrive tomorrow. This team was really careful in handling and packing the items with extra foam and some times they went overboard by enclosing pillows in padded boxes.

20" container arrived today on a truck after a 30 minute delay. The team of packers that I hired locally loaded the container. As expected, the additional volume created due to boxing of the items left little space to load the last 6 chairs and a couple of other items that we have to leave back. It was a measly 100 cuft left in the garage.. will deal with that later..

Looking back, may be a 40' container would have been better but the value of the left over items does not justify the additional $2+ k. Looking back, I now realized that the cu-ft estimation tools need a 25% adjustment mainly due to the additional volume created by the packers. So, if you use a tool like air7seas for cu-ft calculation, add 20-25% to it and then get the appropriate container.

Now that the shipment has left, we loaded our suitcases etc., and moved to a friends house.