Most people spend too much time preparing all their things and stuff before moving out. Why? Because some of them tend to reminisce about the stuff they’re about to dispose of. This leads to carrying these stuff with them onto their new home. So here’s some quick guide to help you arrange and prepare essential things time-saving move.
Making a handy-dandy list is a must
A handy-dandy list may sound boring. However, this will serve as a huge help towards your flawless and well-organized moving out experience. Making some categories on your list is a great move. This way, you can make it on your perspective, or you can find it online with your preferable criteria but try to look on fewer examples and from that summarize it to best fit the needed things for your home and family.
After having a categorized list, you can sort or arrange your list by rooms so that you won’t miss anything. You can also take some pictures of the things that are significant, or you can describe the items as well. For important documents, make sure that you have it added to your inventory list. And lastly, Keep and Make copies of your checklist to remind you which items you packed.
Box it up!
When you are done listing all your things and stocking it all out in one place, the next step is to estimate the needed boxes to pack up your things.
You can try packing your things using online calculators that will help your estimation of how many boxes are needed. It will normally request you to put the number of rooms in your home and the number of people living in it.
Or you can get help on a professional mover to give you detailed estimation when they walk through each room and hallways to have an accurate idea of how many and what size of the box you’ll be needing.
In some cases, a small studio doesn’t usually need more than 20 boxes, while some 3-bedroom home may need as many as 80 to 100.
Rent a truck for the final move
If there were a helpful calculator that will estimate the needed number of moving boxes, then there’s also a variety of useful calculators for your moving truck is well suited to your needs. For a small studio home, a cargo van may work perfectly.
While small homes or an apartment, you will need a 12-foot truck. And for a three-to-five room home, a 22-foot truck is the best to accommodate all the boxes.
It may cost a few extra dollars for a slightly larger truck, but it doesn’t matter as long as your things are safe especially your outdoor belongings like bikes, sports equipment, furniture, etc.
Planning your move in an organized and systematic way is wise decision to save time, money and lessen the stressful situation by making a home inventory lists, researching on how many boxes you’ll need and deciding the proper moving truck size.