re: Advice for keeping moving costs low?

Welcome, neighbor.

Sell all your crap and start new.

Fill your car up with all the personal belongings/sentimental/breakable stuff and drive to your new house. Rent a truck from there and drive it back to your old house…stop at a local Home Depot and pick up 2 day workers offer to pay them $$100 each and lunch…have them load up your truck with you directing them…
Drive to new house stopping at local Home Depot to pick up two different day workers…get them to unload…return van to place you rented it.
Cheapest and less work way to go.

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Why you living in a 3-2 while single??

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In Oxford, I was making $20k a year on Airbnb. It just kind of worked out that it was effective doing it this way.

Don't Airbnb's do well in Oxford? They need to be furnished. Try that.

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Is your place east or north of downtown?

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East, 1-2 miles down Government.

Haven’t read thru the thread, but i have moved around an awful lot, so i got that goin’ for me.. When Ted Bundy was in the electric chair, he said to me ‘Dude, you move around a lot .’

My advice would be to use a service like Two Men and a Truck.. not neccessarily that company, but one like it, as opposed to like an Allied, mayflower etc which will literally eat up any pay raise you might be getting by moving for anew job…. I stopped using TMAAT though b/c of the piece of advice im about to give: Above all, make sure that you hire a moving company with a FLAT RATE, not hourly.. most TMAAT franchises have gone to an hourly only model, and they’ll tell you all about how they work fast and efficient, but it’s BS and youll be sweating bullets while they’re lollygagging on the clock.. there are moving companies, mostly mom and pop, who do local and long distance moves and will quote you a flat rate .

All that said, the next time i move im gonna try something a little different; Uhaul stores - where i usually buy moving boxes- also offer same day services where they’ll rent you a truck and then rent you a couple guys to load it .. THEN you drive the truck to your destination at the other end of your move, they’ll rent you a couple guys to unload it.. this removes the BS of having to do it urself and all the friends/family clusterfrick .

Moving in July 1800 miles. Best bid I had was 24k :/

Only real way I found that works is to make enough improvements to your current place before selling it to pull a chunk off the top of that sale to fund the moving.