Helpful Moving Tips Everyone Should Know

Shifting your household to another location can be thrilling as well as nerve-racking at the same time. Therefore, to avoid this, one must plan their move in an organized manner, by making lists, and keeping all your moving needs at a single place. Given below are some tips one may use while planning their move.

1. Make your own handles for carrying boxes: One can make the boxes easier to hold just by cutting handholds on two sides of the boxes with a utility knife leavingbehind the top flaps of your cutouts attached.This will help you in holding your boxes with ease.
2. Pad your delicate items with fillers: In order to avoid breaking up of your delicate items make sure to pad them with fillers like towels, bed sheets and other soft items in the moving truck. In this way one can also fill up the unevenand vacant space in the truck to avoid shifting of your belongings during the move.
3. Keep your refrigerator defrosted: Alwaysremember to unfreeze, towel dry, and sanitize your refrigerator at least 24 to 48 hours prior to your moving day. This will aidin preventing a bad odor and wetness.
4. Keep your packing supplies basketready:Keep all your packing needs at an arm’s length in a basket. In this way you can always take it around with you during the packing process. Things like packing tapes, labels, scissors, screw driver, utility knife, staplers, marker pens etc can be kept in the basket.
5. Use Rollersforcarrying heavy items: One may use strolley luggage bags to keep heavy items like books. Just roll down your strolley bags onto your moving truck.
6. Just pack your hanging clothes in large bags while in hangers:Now leave all your worries of keeping your ironed clothes. You can just keep them on the hangers and protect them by covering them with large plastic bags. In this way you can free yourself of all the hassles of taking them on and off the hangers. It also keeps your clothes together, wrinkle free and ready to hang up again.
7. Keep your things ready for first night stay in new place:It may happen that you do not get enough time to unpack all your stuff on the same day of your move to the new house. So you must keep a first day box ready with the things you might need on the first day after shifting to your new home. Things like toilet papers, soaps and shampoos, medicines, snacks, cleaners, coffee and coffee maker, first-aid kit, a utility knife, disposable plates and cups, utensils, beddings, pet supplies etc can be kept for first day of your move. Each home member carrying his or her personal belongings with them is also a great idea. This way everyone can have an extra set of clothes to change and everything else they might need.
8. Pack your ceramic and glass plates with foam plates: As foam plates are already in the shape of plates, one can easily use them for protecting their fragile glass and ceramic plates by placing each foam plate between two plates in order to prevent them from breaking.
9. Use plastic wraps to keep your items in their place: You can make use of plastic wraps to keep your items in their place as there is no logic in vacating your drawers when plastic wraps can be used to keep your drawers closed and smaller items are put in their proposed containers.
10. Use paper bags instead of newspaper: You can protect your glassware with paper bags instead of newspapers during the moving process. Just use two paper bags in place of one for some more protection. You will also see that there will be no ink marks as it would have been if you packed your glassware with newspapers.
11. Keep your valuables in double boxes: If you are worried about breaking up of your valuables during the move, you can always consider packing your delicate and fragile items in double boxes for that extra protection. Items like televisions, computer systems etc can be packed in double boxes so as to avoid their breakage. You can also pad these items with some softer items like bed sheets, towels,bubble tapes etc.
12. Label your boxes with bright colored labels:Labeling your items along with their packing will only help you in identifying the contents of the box and the place for which they are intended to be used. Writing each label every time can be a repetitive task so you can prepare your labels beforehand and just paste them on to the required boxes. This will help you in identifying the desired boxes even from a certain distance.

You must embrace the fact that moving an entire household or office is not going to be easy. However, if planned properly and taking care of various trivial stuff, you can ensure a smooth execution of the entire shifting process.