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How to Make Moving Home Less Stressful

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Moving home is one of the most stressful experiences life has to offer, along with getting married and the loss of a loved one. As with everything, there are certain things you can do to make the experience go a lot smoother and reduce some of the stress. Try following these simple steps to help make sure your move goes to plan!

Have Back-Up Plans

You may have the perfect vision planned out for the day of your move, but life has its own plans, which will almost certainly throw a spanner in the works and veer something off course. If you’re lucky, your day will go exactly as planned, but it’s almost certain that at least one thing will go wrong – so be prepared and have a contingency plan for every step of the journey!

Hire Professional Movers

It’s tempting to try to skimp on costs and recruit friends and family to help you make the move, but with such a momentous and stressful task, it’s much easier to hire a professional removal company. Professional movers have moving home down to an art: they can supply you with everything you need to get packed up and ready to go, and then they’ll do all the heavy lifting and deal with the transportation of your stuff. If you really can’t afford to hire professionals, then you should definitely make sure you over-recruit on the friends and family front! There are sure to be things you’ve overlooked, or things that take longer than planned, so it can’t hurt to have extra people on hand to help – they probably won’t end up being “extra” after all!

Allow Plenty of Time to Pack

Packing is probably the part people dread the most about moving home. Just how exactly do you box up your entire life? Allow yourself plenty of time to get everything done when you know for sure that the move will be going ahead.

Organise Your Packing

By allowing yourself plenty of time to pack, you’ll have the leisure of organising your boxes properly, making the transition into your new home much smoother. Before you even get started with packing, you should declutter your entire home and get rid of anything you won’t need in your new house. Anything you haven’t used for months, or even years, can be donated to charity or sold beforehand – that way you’ll have that much less to pack! You should also pack by room and category so you know where to find things as you get settled into your new place.

Keep Essentials Close

The things you use regularly – at least once every day – should be kept nearby. Either keep these things with you when you travel yourself, or pack them last so they’re the first thing to emerge when you unpack. Having toiletries and kitchen utensils you use every day close to hand will mean your regular day-to-day activities such as washing and cooking won’t get thrown off track by the move. And don’t forget to pack the toilet paper last of all!

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Matthew Sanders, the author of this article is a very perceptive man. He is working with MetroMovers, a removal company in Sydney. They are known to provide the best service that too at affordable prices.

You’ve Got Casters — Why Not Roll On Them?

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It’s better to ride than walk, some would say, and despite the lack of interest in gaining the benefit of physical exertion that the statement implies, there is a bit of wisdom there that can be used when you’re dealing with extremely weighty object that you might need to move from time to time, and you don’t happen to own a crane or a fork lift, and yet you have to find a reasonable way to get the grand piano from one room to another, or to rearrange the sofa and a bunch of easy chairs that are beginning to clutter the room to which they are assigned, and you know that if you make a few minor adjustments you can begin to clear pathways through that packed room that are sorely needed and that the room will suddenly appear to be fully pulled together again and a lot more useable for any number of family activities that you could be employing it for.

Taking a Different Approach

So don’t break your back lifting lots of heavy stuff that will only result in some strained muscles and herniated discs, which will put you out of commission for an indefinite amount of time, and will certainly not help in the speedy resolution to your cluttered room problem. You can take a much different approach to the problem and simply order furnishings that come equipped with caster wheels, which will certainly make you life a great deal easier.

Once you have the bulk of your heavy furnishings up on wheels it will suddenly free you to try different furniture arrangements that you might not have bothered with before because the effort it would have taken to move things around, and then rearrange them if the plan that you were testing didn’t work out, made it all seem like and exercise in futility.

Enjoying the Freedom

Once you get all of your heavy stuff on furniture casters, watch out, because the freedom that it will suddenly give you might turn out to be habit inducing, so don’t be surprised if you find that it’s four in the morning and you’ve suddenly snapped awake with a new idea for a floor plan, and you just can’t wait until dawn to try it out, so you’ve hobbled downstairs and are moving things around and getting into the spirit of the whole furniture rearrangement craze that you have mentally signed onto, and your spouse suddenly appears at the top of the stairs and asks you what you’re doing, and you have to explain that it’s all about the casters, and how they have not only changed the complexion of your living room, but have become a life-changing revelation to you, and that you plan to pursue the possibilities that casters allow as your life’s work.

If this happens to you, do not be surprised – just go with it.

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Eric Blair writes about office furniture types and various way of making a workplace more productive with the use of ball casters from CoolCasters and other useful appliances.

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