Comments on: How to Move in 6 Weeks or 6 Days, and Keep Your Sanity http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/ Encouragement for a Simple Home Mon, 15 Mar 2010 23:36:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Desi http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-8100 Desi Mon, 27 Jul 2009 20:13:32 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-8100 The one thing that always seems to be left out of these posts is to be sure to keep up with your home management binder- or make one when you start to pack. Aside from the day-to-day stuff, you should keep the info from your old and new place in it. It can be incredibly helpful if, say the movers decide to leave the truck on the side of the road and all your credit card/ old and new utility accounts/moving contract are in a box in the truck. It's also handy to have around when trying to tie up the loose ends from your home location. The one thing that always seems to be left out of these posts is to be sure to keep up with your home management binder- or make one when you start to pack. Aside from the day-to-day stuff, you should keep the info from your old and new place in it. It can be incredibly helpful if, say the movers decide to leave the truck on the side of the road and all your credit card/ old and new utility accounts/moving contract are in a box in the truck.

It’s also handy to have around when trying to tie up the loose ends from your home location.

]]> By: Miechelle http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7491 Miechelle Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:53:19 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7491 Ah what a timely post. We are having to DOUBLE RENT for the next two months as our apartment complex won't let us out of our contract (standard but still incredibly irksome) and we are changing school districts so have to move and have utulities going for proof of residence to get my daughter into the new district. Any money and time saving tips are welcome and the post and all the comments where chock full of em' - thanks one and all - I like the numbers instead of names for rooms, the colour paper (I like colour for everything), the pack everything in boxes, the POD and the hire the truck for the nove just once or don't do multiple trips - all so logical yet utterly valuable to read at this point in time for me. <abbr><em><em>Miechelle´s last blog post..<a href="http://thetransitionist.blogspot.com/2009/06/definition-of-success.html" rel="nofollow">THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS</a></em></abbr></em> Ah what a timely post. We are having to DOUBLE RENT for the next two months as our apartment complex won’t let us out of our contract (standard but still incredibly irksome) and we are changing school districts so have to move and have utulities going for proof of residence to get my daughter into the new district. Any money and time saving tips are welcome and the post and all the comments where chock full of em’ – thanks one and all – I like the numbers instead of names for rooms, the colour paper (I like colour for everything), the pack everything in boxes, the POD and the hire the truck for the nove just once or don’t do multiple trips – all so logical yet utterly valuable to read at this point in time for me.

Miechelle´s last blog post..THE DEFINITION OF SUCCESS

]]> By: jenny @ thejennypincher http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7151 jenny @ thejennypincher Mon, 08 Jun 2009 03:37:49 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7151 Thanks so much for this post! I am hoping to be moving in the next couple of weeks, it all depends if I sell my place but I'm keeping my fingers crossed! I'm dreading moving and the thought of disorganization. Your tips are most helpful, thanks :) PS Love the blog! <abbr><em><em>jenny @ thejennypincher´s last blog post..<a href="http://thejennypincher.wordpress.com/2009/06/08/menu-plan-monday-week-of-june-7th/" rel="nofollow">Menu Plan Monday week of June 7th</a></em></abbr></em> Thanks so much for this post! I am hoping to be moving in the next couple of weeks, it all depends if I sell my place but I’m keeping my fingers crossed! I’m dreading moving and the thought of disorganization. Your tips are most helpful, thanks :) PS Love the blog!

jenny @ thejennypincher´s last blog post..Menu Plan Monday week of June 7th

]]> By: Heather http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7113 Heather Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:55:14 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7113 You will forever be the most efficient, intelligent woman I know! And I am so thankful for your wisdom helping me move my mother recently! I will say it again and again and again. It is totally worth it to get a moving truck and movers, even if its just for an hour. Save up for it if its too costly. Having to take multiple trips in a pick-up is just not wise. Time Value of Money as they taught us in economics class! And no one needs to hurt themselves trying to lift that heavy stuff all day either! Tape up all the boxes so they are easy to stack. Label them. And I loved your idea to wrap the dishes with paperplates. That went so much quicker than overlapping newspaper over and over. I also love to wrap breakables with towells, sheets, etc so you avoid the messy newsprint. Wardrobe boxes are $5-10 at Uhaul and seem worth every penny when storing clothing. That's my nickel of advice. You will forever be the most efficient, intelligent woman I know! And I am so thankful for your wisdom helping me move my mother recently! I will say it again and again and again. It is totally worth it to get a moving truck and movers, even if its just for an hour. Save up for it if its too costly. Having to take multiple trips in a pick-up is just not wise. Time Value of Money as they taught us in economics class! And no one needs to hurt themselves trying to lift that heavy stuff all day either! Tape up all the boxes so they are easy to stack. Label them. And I loved your idea to wrap the dishes with paperplates. That went so much quicker than overlapping newspaper over and over. I also love to wrap breakables with towells, sheets, etc so you avoid the messy newsprint. Wardrobe boxes are $5-10 at Uhaul and seem worth every penny when storing clothing. That’s my nickel of advice.

]]> By: Darcy http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7099 Darcy Thu, 04 Jun 2009 22:10:47 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7099 Instead of an "un-pack first" box, I have a laundry basket that I put those things you need right away- shower curtain, towels, bedding, toothbrushes, cleaning supplies... It seems to work and then you aren't looking for a box, it seems easier to find... <abbr><em><em>Darcy´s last blog post..<a href="http://ittybittyblog.wordpress.com/2009/06/02/grandma-annies-dress/" rel="nofollow">Grandma Annie’s Dress</a></em></abbr></em> Instead of an “un-pack first” box, I have a laundry basket that I put those things you need right away- shower curtain, towels, bedding, toothbrushes, cleaning supplies…
It seems to work and then you aren’t looking for a box, it seems easier to find…

Darcy´s last blog post..Grandma Annie’s Dress

]]> By: Carolyn http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7027 Carolyn Sat, 30 May 2009 14:26:18 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7027 Thanks for posting this!! Both my daughters currently live out of town and are moving back "home" this summer. One is moving 300 miles and the other 1300 miles! I forwarded to them as a "gentle" reminder to start packing and planning NOW ;) I, however, made my LAST move last summer! Thanks for posting this!! Both my daughters currently live out of town and are moving back “home” this summer. One is moving 300 miles and the other 1300 miles! I forwarded to them as a “gentle” reminder to start packing and planning NOW ;)

I, however, made my LAST move last summer!

]]> By: Heather http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7022 Heather Sat, 30 May 2009 04:50:12 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7022 Keep a small pad of paper with you at all times, and when something comes up that you need to remember for the move, write it down. There are a lot of details involved with moving that you may think of at odd times that you'll forget later, but which end up being important. Do not underestimate how long it will take to pack up an entire house's contents. We've moved twice internationally and twice within the US (military), and even though professional movers have packed everything for us and there are lots of them, it still takes a long time to get it all done. <abbr><em><em>Heather´s last blog post..<a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/BrennaBearAndAnthonyBug/~3/TznGaMko6B0/and-good-morning-to-you-too.html" rel="nofollow">And Good Morning to You, Too</a></em></abbr></em> Keep a small pad of paper with you at all times, and when something comes up that you need to remember for the move, write it down. There are a lot of details involved with moving that you may think of at odd times that you’ll forget later, but which end up being important.

Do not underestimate how long it will take to pack up an entire house’s contents. We’ve moved twice internationally and twice within the US (military), and even though professional movers have packed everything for us and there are lots of them, it still takes a long time to get it all done.

Heather´s last blog post..And Good Morning to You, Too

]]> By: ashley@twentysixcats http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7021 ashley@twentysixcats Fri, 29 May 2009 23:21:56 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7021 Oh one other thing I meant to mention... this last time we moved, I marked all the boxes and furniture with colored construction paper that coordinated to the room they were going into. The bright colors made it easy to group things in rooms, and I wrote the room on the paper so you didn't have to remember what color went to where. My friends who helped us said that it made the process much quicker, and it also was nice for me to not be asked where to put Every. Single. Box. The colors also work well if you have people helping you who don't speak English well/at all. <abbr><em><em>ashley@twentysixcats´s last blog post..<a href="http://www.twentysixcats.com/2009/05/26/memorial-day-happenings/" rel="nofollow">memorial day happenings</a></em></abbr></em> Oh one other thing I meant to mention… this last time we moved, I marked all the boxes and furniture with colored construction paper that coordinated to the room they were going into. The bright colors made it easy to group things in rooms, and I wrote the room on the paper so you didn’t have to remember what color went to where. My friends who helped us said that it made the process much quicker, and it also was nice for me to not be asked where to put Every. Single. Box.

The colors also work well if you have people helping you who don’t speak English well/at all.

ashley@twentysixcats´s last blog post..memorial day happenings

]]> By: ashley@twentysixcats http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7020 ashley@twentysixcats Fri, 29 May 2009 23:17:49 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7020 What a great list! I've moved quite a bit in my life, too. I definitely second the idea of an overnight bag - don't forget to add things like toilet paper and hand soap to the list! I've found that I become really popular when I feed pizza to any friends who help us move. I also try to stock the fridges in both the old place and the new place with bottled water. One thing I've learned is never ask someone to help you move who seems unwilling. I had a friend volunteer her husband once, and he obviously didn't want to be there, and his negative attitude brought everyone down. I didn't need to deal with that stress! I always try to give people a way out now. We've always had pets with us, and I find that the best thing to do with them is to find alternative housing for the weekend of the move. Less stress for me, less stress on them, and no one has to worry about "letting the dog out". What a great list! I’ve moved quite a bit in my life, too. I definitely second the idea of an overnight bag – don’t forget to add things like toilet paper and hand soap to the list! I’ve found that I become really popular when I feed pizza to any friends who help us move. I also try to stock the fridges in both the old place and the new place with bottled water.

One thing I’ve learned is never ask someone to help you move who seems unwilling. I had a friend volunteer her husband once, and he obviously didn’t want to be there, and his negative attitude brought everyone down. I didn’t need to deal with that stress! I always try to give people a way out now.

We’ve always had pets with us, and I find that the best thing to do with them is to find alternative housing for the weekend of the move. Less stress for me, less stress on them, and no one has to worry about “letting the dog out”.

]]> By: Quick mentions | Sense to Save http://smallnotebook.org/2009/05/29/how-to-move-in-6-weeks-or-6-days-and-keep-your-sanity/#comment-7016 Quick mentions | Sense to Save Fri, 29 May 2009 20:11:41 +0000 http://smallnotebook.org/?p=1306#comment-7016 [...] Small Notebook has a perfectly timed post about moving. We have three weeks until moving day and I’m anxious to get rid of stuff and get [...] [...] Small Notebook has a perfectly timed post about moving. We have three weeks until moving day and I’m anxious to get rid of stuff and get [...]

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