8-Week Moving Timeline: Moving Checklist
When moving for the very first time, you’ll notice right away that the success of a house move hinges on impeccable organization. Strategic planning when moving to a new home proves to be critical since every hour of every day has to be used efficiently. If not, time...
How to Label Moving Boxes: Read and Write With Care
Everybody is entitled to their own opinion, but if you ask 10 random people to name the most disorganized process in life, you can rest assured that at least a few of the answers will be about the transitional period of moving to another home. Despite the bad...
How to Find the Best Movers Near You
The process of moving house can prove to be a tough period filled with puzzling situations and seemingly unsolvable dilemmas. Usually, it’s the lack of a good plan that can make things even more complicated than they need to be in the first place. The uncertainty of...
Moving by Yourself? Don’t Make These Costly Mistakes
You’ve probably heard numerous clever quotes about making mistakes in life, and until you’re the one blundering, those words of wisdom actually sound fine. Depending on your current state of mind, such quotes can even be somewhat inspirational: Mistakes are stepping...
20 Tips for Moving in Peak Moving Season
Moving during peak moving season has its specifics and can be rather different than a house move during the off-peak moving season. But when is peak moving season? Statistical data shows that around 70% of all house moves in the U.S. take place roughly between...
Pros and Cons of Moving in With Friends
Moving in with your friends and living together with them may seem like the perfect scenario, especially when you just graduated from college. Living with your best pals under one roof can be an exciting prospect, a seemingly fun period to really look forward to....
How to Pack a Large Mirror for Moving
There’s at least one large mirror in each home, often more than just one: one in the bedroom (of course), one in the hallway (corridor) close to the front door of the house or apartment, and sometimes one in the living room or spare bedroom. Mirrors play an important...
How to Pack and Move a Dresser in 12 Steps
When getting ready to move out, one of the most important things you have to do is decide whether you will move any of your large and heavy furniture. Bear in mind that moving furniture is not only difficult and even dangerous due to the large dimensions and serious...
How to Choose the Best Date for Your Move
Even if you don’t realize it, the date on which you decide to move out plays a big role in the big picture of your move. Sometimes you don’t really have a choice and the move-out date is decided for you. One way or another, circumstances - the ones that are usually...
30 Priceless Tips for Preparing Items for Storage
Temporary storage can be a great option in certain transitional situations - for example, when you’re moving away temporarily or when you’re downsizing your home. When the new place is not yet ready to receive your household items, then placing your stuff in storage...
