Planning, Preparing, And Making The Move

By Joseph Tranturder


Moving into a new home is a unique experience for most families as moving into a new home can often be both simultaneously exciting and overly stressful at the same time. But moving into a new home for the first time, or moving as a family for the first time, or even simply experiencing the process of a move for the first time can be more than exciting or stressful; it can likewise be confusing and difficult.

Firstly, consider hiring a professional moving company to assist you in the move. A professional moving company will be perhaps the best way for a family to face the challenge of moving. Mitigate stress and the host of potential issues that may arise during the moving process by being fully prepared before the move begins. By planning ahead and by making daily preparations, a family and individual can ease the burden of moving.

Weeks and even months before the impeding move there are many things that a person or family can do to help themselves prepare for the move. Here again, organization will be paramount. Organize and plan the move before any physical work on packing and moving begins. Decide how and when you will pack various rooms of the home and work out a schedule for when each room will be packed.

One of the first things that a family or individual in Utah can do to begin preparing for an upcoming move is to simply get the current home cleaned up months ahead of the scheduled move. A clean living area prior to a move will accomplish several things but the most important will be that a clean living area means that a family will be less likely to overlook items while packing and will be able to know what items are where, which will be vital when a family or the moving service they have hired beings to do the actual packing.

Start with the back corners and dusty crawlways of the home that house those possessions that you never use. Get rid of them. Either by hosting a yard sale, which can clear out a lot of other items from your home while giving you a little extra money in the process, or by donating them to second hand stores or charities, these items that you never have used and that you never will use should not make the move. Clearing these items form your list of possessions will assist not only in the move itself but in the future home as you will not need to find a place for them to forever sit.

Discarding items of seemingly no value can still be a difficult task for elder persons as nearly every item or trinket in the home holds at least one cherished memory. While helping the elderly downsize for the upcoming move, one should be compassionate and honor some requests to hold on to items but yet be firm and explanatory in why others must be discarded or sold.

No matter the decision, a family who is moving for the first time can have better success and an easier transition while moving if they will do some of the organizing of the items to be moved themselves.

Lastly prepare a safety box that will house all necessary and important items from your old home. This will be the last on the moving van and the first off as it will be carrying all of your important paperwork, passports, legal documents and other such vital items that you wish to keep safe at all costs. With this system of organization and planning, a family can effectively move from house to house without unnecessary amounts of stress and worry.




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