A Guide To Moving House In 2010
In this article, I'm eager to provide some real help to persons who find the complete option of packing for moving house completely overwhelming
. You're probably dreading the idea of having to decide where to start and what to take, so let's arrange a step plan for you to keep to, and I think, after you take the initial step, you'll find out that just getting going is the highest hurdle you'll cope with.
Step 1: The Big Clear Out.
This sounds like an obvious step, but from my experience, it's overlooked all to often. An opportunity has arisen at this time where you can get rid of a quantity of useless items and open up a quantity of valuable breathing space, and decrease your workload and expenditure on removal day. This is especially of great consequence if your move is over a long distance, or if there's going to be a storage episode connecting your moving out and moving in days. Remember, the higher the volume of goods to be moved, so therefore the more packing equipment, men necessary, time necessary, superior vehicle necessary, bigger storeroom unit necessary. It all has a knock on effect, so strip your house down to the essentials and save your time and money. Take a good long look at your furniture, and ask yourself if you really would like to shell out to have that worn-out old couch taken to your pristine house. Are your beds or mattresses due for replacement? Do you really need to keep all those back issues of your favourite magazines? A useful proposal is to ask yourself when was the previous point you used that thing, and force yourself to toss it away. Use it or lose it. Get this step correct by being as brutal as you can, and you're on your way to a much smoother, and much cheaper move.
Step 2: The Non Essentials
We all hold those items which we can't be parted from, such as personal photo albums, ornaments and trinkets, artwork, and of course our clothes and cookware, but for the majority of us it can be packed, weeks in advance of moving time without impacting on our lives. If you can tidy down to run on the bare essentials, and box up the surplus ahead of time, you'll suddenly discover that the workload on moving day is now down to a much more controllable level. If you can get this stage concluded before you call in the removal companies for quotes, it follows that you can expect the prices to be much more reasonable. The agent from the moving company will respond far more favourably to a tidy organised household, than he would to a muddled residence with a mountain of graft to get through. So get ahead of time and box up the things you can manage without. Don't lose sleep too much in relation to what goes away on this stage, as you can leave your boxes unsealed in case you need to find that special pair of shoes or your kids other toys. Stack your packed boxes to the wall in each room, ready to seal them up right before moving day.
Step 3: The Night Before
Relax. With steps one and two complete you've already prepared much better than the majority. You can award yourself a pat on the back right now and know that your moving day is going to plan. Now, all that needs to be done is to place everything in your essentials collection which is no longer wanted into the unsealed boxes. You'll need fresh clothes, wash kit, a couple of towels and the breakfast items for the morning, but everything else can go away. My special reminder is to keep the coffee pot out and a number of mugs and teaspoons, milk and sugar. We all have a mid-morning break on the day and it's so much nicer to take a cup of tea or coffee. Especially valuable at this point, is that you get a sound nights sleep. Moving day is a long day so catch your rest and wake up refreshed and energised ready to rock and roll.
Step 4: Get up and go!
If your movers are coming by 8am, it follows that you'll need to be up, washed, dressed and fed earlier than they arrive. Then you've got to get the breakfast dishes washed dried and packed, get the wash kit away, but leave a towel and a little soap in the bathroom. Strip your beds down and bag the sheets, pillows and duvets. Seal up all the boxes which have been left unsealed up to this moment and presto, youre prepared. When the movers arrive, thay can move straight to work lifting boxes away to the van while you polish off a small amount of last moment tasks. Once your boxes and furniture are moved out, you've got to turn out the lights, lock up, transfer the keys and get after that truck.
Hopefully at the present you're looking forwards to moving. I know as soon as I arrive on nearly all jobs, a look of absolute panic is showing, but more often than not by the mid morning break we've got the bulk of it complete and things calm down. If you take my advice and keep to the plan then you to will be able to sleep well the night beforehand and welcome your movers with a smile.
Warmest regards from me, and let me know how it went.
by: Tom Kinnaird
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