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Give me your best organizing, packing and moving tips!!
Husband wants to step it up and try to be out of here by 9/15 instead of 10/1. ?Perhaps I shouldn't be sitting on the couch right now and nesting as much as I should be, oh, I don't know, cleaning! ?Gah! ?
If you are organized and a good packer, want to come do this all for me? ?I mean, want to give me your best tips?! ?thanks!?
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Re: Give me your best organizing, packing and moving tips!!
Ha! My best tip would be to call a moving company. I HATE packing and moving. I swear to god, we will live in this house forever because of that.
I of course would have plenty of boxes, seeing as how dh saves every box from everything he has ever purchased.
I hate moving with junk. So, I do a MASSIVE purge/donation before I start packing. Clothes, toys, knicknacks, crap etc
Go to an office supply store and buy a package of those dot stickers (like you see on stuff at garage sales) that come in different colors. Assign each room a color (kitchen=blue, living room=green, bedroom #1=yellow, etc.). When you pack a box intended for that room, put one of the dots on the outside of the box (or even several in case one falls off). Also put a dot on things like lamps, etc. that there may be different rooms to use them in. When you arrive at your new place, BEFORE BRINGING ANYTHING IN, take some construction paper and go to EVERY ROOM and put a piece of construction paper with the designated color on the wall and on the door. (So a piece of blue construction paper on the kitchen walls and on the doors, green on the living room, etc.) That way ANYONE (mover, you, DH, helpers) who brings ANYTHING in knows where it belongs by matching the sticker color to the room color.
BEST tip I've ever been given.
start with stuff you are not using or dont need until after 9/15. Try to stick to 1 room at a time. And when you pack a box label it with HUGE letters which room it goes too and in small letters write whats in the box. Keep the packed boxes in the room or designate a staging /storage room. Start slow and small so you dont get overwhelmed.
Towels, bedding and clothes make a great "filler" that you can stuff in small spaces in the boxes. Same thing with stuffed animals.
get rid of as much as you can. I'd also recommend thinking about having packers and movers. We didn't have packers because of the cost but then they told us unless our belongings wouldn't be insured for replacement unless the boxes were basically decimated.
Oh, and you're likely to get bet rates moving mid-month too so that's good.
Since I am currently in the middle of moving hell, my tip is - DON'T DO IT.
Okay, I'll give some real tips.
--go through each room and get rid of stuff you do not use. Closets are my nemesis these days.
--pack by room for better organization when unpacking - that way you can label the boxes whatever room and they go there.
--be specific on your boxes. if some stuff is going to storage b/c you might make another move shortly thereafter [we're going to an apartment for 6 months and looking for a house], mark those boxes storage so you don't even have to get them open to see.
--pack things you don't use and try to pace yourself so you don't get overwhelmed.
--final tip: don't kill your husband in the process.
Another tip I've used is using one of those clear Fed-Ex label/packing slip holders on each box to hold that boxes inventory/description. (I used 5x7 cards and markers so I could easily see plates/2T clothes/coffee etc.)
GL!