Nested

Life goes on as I wait for med school to start. I get a little more anxious as I wait for my financial aid package (bah! so much debt!) and as I try to figure out the logistics of moving across country.

When S and I moved into our current apartment, we thought that we'd be here basically forever -- so we nested.
We bought "new" furniture. And by new, I mean we bought it off of craigslist. We're too poor for actual new furniture items. Also, Ikea stuff is pretty much crap--if I'm going to buy something from Ikea, I'll buy it for 1/2 price off of craigslist, thank you very much. Plus, craigslist Ikea stuff is usually already assembled, so I get to skip the frustrating part!

Anyway...

Here we are now with a bunch of grown up stuff, like furniture, wine glasses, and towel sets. Are we supposed to move all of this stuff 2000 miles?? My suggestion is just sell/donate/trash nearly everything and repurchase what we need once we get there. However, I hate the idea of rebuying all those little things. For example, we are definitely not moving across the country with our toilet plunger, but what do we do? We trash it and then spend our hard earned cash on a new one? That's not something I really want to fork money over for, but if we needed it and didn't have it--we'd be in a pretty bad situation.

Well we still have four-ish months to sort out the toilet plunger transportation issues, so I'll let this slide for now.

Now here's my promise to you, potential future readers of this blog: I solemnly swear to not turn this into a place where all I do is rant and complain about life. I am very much a whiner. I'm working on it.

Any advice on cross country moves?
I have no idea how to find an apartment across the country without spending large sums of money travelling back and forth. Any advice on how to deal with that?