No one likes moving; that’s a fact. It’s time-consuming, strenuous, and often requires paying someone to help you, or having some close friends give up their time to help you. However, you can make moving easier by following a few simple tips, which will ultimately save you time, money, and your sanity.
Create a Checklist
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Perhaps the most important aspect of moving is making sure that you’re thoroughly prepared before the big moving day. The best way to do this is to make a checklist outlining what you want to achieve beforehand. If you have a family, doling out responsibilities to each person is a surefire way to make sure everything gets done, as well as cut down on stress.
Get ready financially
Moving is stressful and the last thing you want is to be low on cash while you do so. You will need money for the deposit, closing and opening new utility contracts, the move itself and many little expenses you need to budget for. If you have bad credit, Just Bad Credit can help you get some extra cash temporarily.
Don’t Buy Boxes
Buying boxes is an unnecessary expenditure when it comes to moving. At most retailers, cardboard moving boxes are sold for $1 to $2 depending on size. Based on the amount of stuff that you’re moving, this can easily build a $50 or $100 bill. Instead of purchasing these, search for them. Many times you can find moving boxes for free on Craigslist, at liquor stores, or book stores.
Organize Your Moving Vehicles
Whether you’re planning on using your own vehicles, your friends’ cars, or a van from residential moving companies, make sure to make the work flow smoothly. To do this, make sure you move or take down all hindrances or obstructions in and around the house, including potted plants, floor mats, and interior and exterior decor. If you can get away without renting a moving van, even better. You’ll save a ton of money on rental and gas expenses.
Clean Your New Place
If at all possible, it’s to your benefit to clean your new apartment or house. That way, everything is ready to immediately move into your place. If you live or are planning to move, you can also check out some apartments for rent to find exactly what you’re looking for.
Throw Stuff Away or Donate
Don’t be afraid to let go of some things when you move. Depending on how long you’ve lived in your current residence, you’ll be sure to find some items that you didn’t even know you had. Chances are, if you haven’t used them since you’ve lived there, you probably won’t miss them too much. Your options then are to throw them away or to donate them. Often, if the item is of a little value, you can keep the donation receipt and use it as a tax write-off.
It is an especially good idea to donate large items to charity, since it could mean one less trip that you have to take when moving. For example, if you own a water vessel, you could make a boat donation to a charity that accepts such items. These charities will pick your boat up from your house and will use the proceeds from the boat to fund children in third world countries. In addition, your donation provides tax benefits, making it a great way to make your move easier and help out those in need at the same time.
Save Your Valuables
Valuables or fragile items can be easily broken when moving. Make sure you take extra care to wrap these items in bubble wrap, shrink-wrap, or some soft towels. You won’t have to worry about them being destroyed, and you’ll be able to easily find them at your new place.
No matter if you’re moving across town or across the country, these tips will help you save time, money, and keep you from having a stress meltdown. If you have concerns about the reliability of movers, try to enlist the help of friends or family for your move. Chances are they’ll do as good a job, and will be willing to work for pizza and beer, saving you even more.
Hire professional mover to do the packing for you. They are more organized and knows what and where things should go.
Moving is not the most fun thing in the world. We just moved recently, and are planning to move again in the future. The first time, we bought cardboard boxes, but after reading this, we will make sure just to look for them. Thanks for the tips!
Excellent tips. I have to move in the next few weeks and was looking for some advice on how to prepare. This info will help me tremendously in getting organized before hand. Thanks!
Moving is always a big stress for me and my family, so I really needed some new tips! I have created lists before, but I wasn’t too specific on it, so perhaps I can try the list tip again! I also like the idea of donating the things you don’t need or use, I’d like to do that this time around. Thanks for these tips, I feel that this next move will be way less
Hiring the right moving company takes out a lot of burden when relocating to a new home or office. With all the things that you have to keep in mind during this time, it’s just too stressful to bear. These tips of yours are definitely worth sharing!
I really hate moving. and hopefully I won’t be needing one… again. but I’m taking note on this, since this is a really good advice. and in case that I have to move again.
Thanks for sharing this post. This will truly help me alot in our next move. This surely keeps things less stressful.
Hi Pauline, Thank you for sharing your 6 tips for moving.
Definitely hire someone to haul away everything you don’t need from your junky rooms like your garage, shed, office and guest rooms. They also donate your items if you want them to.
Impressive 6 strategies for moving and Yah! its okay to make checklist to make everything easy straight….
Knowing what you can throw away or donate when moving can really prevent you from gathering and moving with too much junk. Thanks for posting this advice!
All tips on the list are really important and considerable to follow by movers. I will add this now on my checklist
Thank you, Pauline!
Hello Pauline, I already finished reading your thoughts about moving and I really admire you, giving precise tips to make hassle and stress-free when relocating to the another place. Nevertheless, I am not planning for a move but I add your tips on my checklist. Thank you!
Whoa, this tips for moving is absolutely genuine, It is really important to make an early plan to organize your moving day and this information has all the strategy significant. Thank you, you’re doing great post, Pauline.
Moving one place to another is stressful and I want to appoint responsible company for this. I hope your tips will guide me in future.
I like your tip dole out responsibilities to family members. I have three kids, so I guess I’ll put them to work. Involving everyone like that is a good way to get kids to “buy-in” to a move as well- they should get to have an amount of ownership over the move as well.
Was looking for moving tips and came across your article. I found these moving tips very helpful and informative. One more moving tip from my end – Instead of buying boxes, you can even hire moving boxes on rent these days for safe and affordable moving. Thank you for sharing!
Another tip that stood in great steed is measurement of the new place. It is highly improbable that the measurements of your new place will match your old place. Only take that stuff that you need and will fit in your new home. This will save you a lot of money and hassles.http://www.unitytop.com/packers-and-movers-in-lucknow/
I’d argue that some people like moving, they have fun doing that, or get pleasure from this feeling of something new and purifying. Also if a person feels that it’s a torture, one can always hire a pro to do the job and, for example, transport valuables safely (because they have experience in doing that)
Great tips! Moving is really stressful work. You share the tips are very helpful for moving work. Thanks!
Getting rid of things and decluttering is one of the best things you can do for yourself when you are planning to move. I would imagine that we tend to pick a lot of things up that we don’t really need and it takes up a lot of space. In my opinion, getting a professional moving service is one of the best things you can do for yourself so you can focus on the other aspects of moving.
That is a great idea if you have a budget for even that much expense for a move. Thanks.
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First off, congratulation on this post. This is really awesome but that’s what you always crank out my friend. Great posts that we can sink our teeth into and really go to work. 🙂
Packing is a big problem while moving. We have to pack them very carefully, which are our imported items. your tips is to good. There are so many developers working on this part but this is one of the best innovative post ever. Thanks for such post.
Great helpful tips in moving and relocating. Sometimes when it gets to stressful it is best to just hire pro’s to do it for you.