The physical process of moving out of your home can be both exciting and stressful at the same time. Here are 10 tips to ensure your move is simpler, easier and less chaotic!
☞ Plan and prepare. It’s best to start planning and preparing to move home several weeks in advance. It can take a long time to declutter, organise, and pack all your items before moving day. Go through your home and think about what you need to keep, pack or give or throw away, by when, by whom and reverse engineer your steps so that you have a timeline of activities and logistics to ensure your move goes smoothly.
☞ Declutter and donate.
☞ Save money by:
✖️ Packing using secondhand boxes – try family, friends or your neighbours to see if they have spare moving boxes, or online classified or local community pages on social media.
✖️ Do it yourself. Make a few trips with small items in your own car, then hire a removalist or truck for the larger pieces.
☞ Get friends to help.
☞ Sell unwanted items you no longer need or use, from small items to furniture.
☞ Put together a moving kit to keep all the items you’ll likely need to help you pack, declutter and unpack to keep them together and easily accessible. This kit will likely include:
✖️ Bin bags and boxes for organising rubbish and recycling while decluttering.
✖️ Tape.
✖️ Smaller boxes of varying sizes.
✖️ Packing materials for fragile items (clean linen can be a great thing to place between large kitchen items like platters, plates and big dishes).
✖️ Basic tools for dismantling furniture.
✖️ A permanent marker to label boxes.
✖️ Stickers or masking tape for labelling boxes.
✖️ A box cutter.
✖️ Cleaning supplies and a vacuum cleaner.
✖️ Gloves.
☞ If there are any boxes that you did not unpack from your last move, donate the contents!
☞ Have a small ‘essentials’ bag that you pop your phone charger, essential toiletries, a mug or two for tea, teabags, bottle opener (you may need it that evening), PJs and change of clothes, toilet paper… that travels with you instead of packing these item away in multiple boxes.
☞ Label every box and assign it to the room it needs to end up in in your new home.
☞ Use clear storage containers so you can easily see those high-priority items you’ll want to access in your first few days in your new home.
☞ Use re-useable zip-lock bags for rogue screws, hooks, remote controls and little bits and bobs.
☞ If you can splurge book in professionals to clean your old home.
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