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⌈ Secret Post #3126 ⌋

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Re: How to Move? LATE reply but pls read OP

[(Anonymous)]

Downsize, downsize, downsize. Can't stress this enough. Clothes you haven't worn in five years and will never wear again? Donation. VHS tapes you've had since the 1990s? Bin, or donate to a local seniors' centre or library that may still have a VCR. Old gimmicky/infomercial products you bought/won/etc., used once, then never touched again? It doesn't move with you. Leave as much behind as you can, and you'll have less to worry about/unpack when you arrive. Sell off big items on Craigslist, if you're flush enough to replace them when you get there, but that's a pros-and-cons, weighing-your-options thing. NEVER sell appliances, until you know the ones in your destination are good. (Yeah I've been burned. "Chattels as is" = MAJOR red flag.)

Six sets of mismatched cutlery? Pick the best from each to make one set, and donate the rest. Same with dishes/cups/etc., only exception is ornamental/sentimental plates/cups you want to keep.

Buy five to ten copies of the thickest newspaper your newsagent sells, for two weeks prior to your final pack date. (As other anons suggest, pack as you go, for the most part.) Keep any newsprint flyers that come in the mailbox. This is what you will wrap your breakables in. Breakables get wrapped in three layers of paper. Plates are stacked with two sheets of newsprint in between, and the sides rolled up over the edge of each plate (to prevent chips). You WILL need to wash your dishes when you unpack them, but you will have all your dishes intact.

Don't buy boxes. Hit up your local supermarket, they will let you have loads. Get boxes from the liquor store with the dividers, this is what you will put your (newspaper-wrapped) cups and glasses in.

Clothes are taken out of the closets ON their hangers, five to ten similarly-sized items are stacked together, a green garbage bag is pulled over top, and the hangers are threaded out through the plastic. Lay the bags flat on top of your boxes, hang them in the closets as soon as you get to your destination. Label which closet they go in, obviously...masking tape and permanent marker.

Buy one cosmetic bag for each member of the family, sized appropriately for whatever amount of toiletries they have. Practice living out of said bags until you move. Then live out of them after you move. Your bathroom will be impeccable.

If you have a plastic laundry basket (if you don't, buy one), this is what you will pack ALL of your cleaning supplies in, and this (along with a broom, a mop, a bucket, and either a sponge mop or one of those swiffer type deals) is what will be packed THE VERY LAST THING. As in, this will be the first thing you take off the truck. Because you are going to clean FIRST. Before anything gets unpacked, before the boxes are moved into the house. I don't care if the real estate agent personally went around the house on her hands and knees with a toothbrush for days, trust me, YOU WILL NEED TO CLEAN. If for no other reason, than just to make the place feel like your own. And it will. Even if you don't get any dirt up, actually cleaning the place, without stuff in it, will familiarize yourself with the place, and make it yours.

...so, I've moved a lot.

Re: How to Move? LATE reply but pls read OP

[tabaqui]

Whoooooooooooo!

Everything you said here is basically perfect. You can also wrap larger things (framed art/pictures, vases, etc.) in towels, sheets or blankets.

The only thing I would add to this wonderful comment is make sure *everything* you pack is clean (it will save so much time and make you happy when you unpack it) and make sure you hydrate, hydrate, hydrate on moving day.

Also? Label the hell out of your boxes and make sure the bottoms of them are taped up good and tight - you don't want to pick up a box of packed dishes and have the bottom fall out.

Good luck!

Re: How to Move? LATE reply but pls read OP

[diet_poison]

I absolutely love how detailed this comment is. <3

I may or may not be bookmarking this thread for future reference, just in case...

Re: How to Move? LATE reply but pls read OP

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT -- I'm moving into an apartment that is less than half the size of where I currently live, so the downsizing has happened and will continue till the move date. Thank you for such a detailed response!!