How to pack a kids’ room for moving

The best way to pack up a house for a move is to use a good room-by-room checklist that will help you stay organized and will save you plenty of time during your pre-move preparation. When moving with children, you’re likely to face numerous challenges along the way, including the tough task of packing your

What to look for in a moving contract

If you’ve chosen to use professional moving services for your forthcoming relocation, you’ll need to find good movers – licensed, experienced, and trustworthy – and sign a moving contract. This may seems like a mere formality (you’ve already reached an agreement with your chosen movers, after all), but it’s very important that you carefully review

How to pack a moving pod

Portable moving containers provide a convenient and cost-effective moving solution that combines some of the most advantageous aspects of self-moving and using professional moving services. The containers are dropped off, picked up, and transported by professionals, but they can be kept at one’s disposal for as long as needed. This allows for great flexibility (you

How to lift boxes correctly when moving house

For better or worse (understand worse), heavy lifting will always remain an inseparable part of the house moving process. The thing is that even if you’ve made up your mind NOT to move any heavyweight furniture pieces and household appliances to the new home, you’re still going to have to lift heavy boxes (correctly!) and

What to sell before moving (and why)?

Moving to a new place is often seen as an opportunity to start afresh and build a better life for yourself. One good way to do so is to let go of everything that’s weighing you down – groundless anxieties, unhappy memories, painful self-doubts, useless junk, etc. – and start on a clean slate in

How to pack board games for moving

Board games are omnipresent. Therefore, it’s fairly safe to say that there’s hardly a household without a few board games stacked up somewhere regardless of whether there are any young children in the house or not. And when you yourself are getting ready to move out, sooner or later you’ll get to your own collection

How long does it take to move cross country?

No matter how you look at it, moving is extremely time-consuming – you need a few months to prepare for your relocation (planning your move, sorting out and purging your belongings, finding reliable movers, collecting and updating documents, packing your items, organizing a safe and efficient moving day, etc.) and then a few more months

What to do when you regret moving

Even though it looked like the right choice at the time, sometimes moving house can turn out to be a rather miserable experience. You move to a new city, you move into a new home and sadly enough, you’re not feeling the way you thought you would. After a quick fantasy-meets-reality clash, everything in the

How to recognize a lowball estimate from movers

Moving is quite an expensive affair, so when planning a relocation, you will certainly be looking for efficient ways to cut down the moving costs. And since cheap movers provide a great chance to save on your move, you will probably be hunting for affordable moving services. So, when you get estimates from several moving

How to move into a building with no elevator

When moving into a high-rise building, chances are there will be an elevator to help you move up your furniture and boxes. However, sometimes that isn’t the case and you may have to move to a higher floor in an apartment building that has no elevator. It’s largely irrelevant whether the building has never had

How to pack spices for moving

There is no doubt that packing is the most laborious, time-consuming, and challenging task to complete when preparing for a house move. There is also no doubt that the kitchen is the hardest room to pack in a home – not only is it full of breakables and oddly-shaped pieces, but the mere number of

How to move without furniture

A successful house move always comes as a direct result of making all the right decisions when it matters the most. Of course, some move-related decisions will always be more critical than others – for example, your choice NOT to sort out your shoes before packing them cannot possibly affect the household move the same