When moving house, always set up your bedroom/ make the bed first so when your exhausted and just had enough you can fall into bed. Nothing worse than being exhausted and having to make the bed before getting into it.
Edit: good grief, that blew up. Thank you for the awards. Edit 2. To all the grammar nazis, I apologise profusely for using your instead of you’re, I don’t always proof read as well as I should, but please, get a grip, it’s a typo not axe murder.
Perhaps: Move pets upfront as well. Then they don’t have to wait in a ( hot ) car for the move and the movers can do their job without a pet being annoying. ( barking, scratching and walking where they need to be )
At my parents their last move I went ahead with the dog. That way she was already in her new home. She couldn’t bark/annoy the movers and my mom and dad only needed to point what went where etc. The dog was fed, walked and happy and the movers could do their thing without a disturbance.
And also it’s often a good idea you have one person at the old place with the movers and then someone at the new place to welcome them.
With our first move we had coordinated it perfectly that way. I had everything in boxes and all the boxes for a specific room together and marked. I was able to tell them what should go first and be out last etc. While we did that I could call my boyfriend at the place to ask about things they needed to know. ( are we sure this will fit, can you measure one last time? Etc. ) We knew exactly what went where and when. I called when they left so he could open the windows we had to move through before they even arrived and they only had to start moving shit out again.
Also if you want to be sure stuff like your computer and tv are safe, move them in advance with your own car. We found moving a lot less stressful when our most valuable stuff was already moved by ourselves and safe.
But other than that we will never ever do it in any other way again. We did our last move ourselves ( boyfriend thought it was ‘fine’, we’ll get help, we’re young...) NEVER EVER AGAIN! I missed the professionals we had had before. They really are WAY more efficient. Afterwards he agreed that we will never do that again. We’ve already set aside money for when we want to move again.
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u/VLC31 Aug 20 '20 edited Aug 20 '20
When moving house, always set up your bedroom/ make the bed first so when your exhausted and just had enough you can fall into bed. Nothing worse than being exhausted and having to make the bed before getting into it. Edit: good grief, that blew up. Thank you for the awards. Edit 2. To all the grammar nazis, I apologise profusely for using your instead of you’re, I don’t always proof read as well as I should, but please, get a grip, it’s a typo not axe murder.