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Topic: Need Tips from People Who Have Recently Moved
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| UrbanMuse | Posted – 7/20/2007 1:12:34 PM | show profile | email poster I'm working on a feature for a new consumer magazine, and I need quotes from those who have recently undergone a household move. What made things run smoothly? What do you wish you'd done differently? How long did it take before you felt settled? Please email me ASAP and include where you moved to and from. Thanks! ------ www.UrbanMuseWriter.com |
| Stressed | Posted – 7/20/2007 5:20:29 PM | show profile If there is anything essential that needs to be disassembled, keep the various screws, bolts and Allen keys in a baggie in a box you take to your new house in the car yourself. This tip stems from our move to the US from the UK two years ago. Our stuff took 8 weeks to ship and it was hell doing without it. Finally it all arrived: a double garage full of boxes piled from floor to ceiling. Well we were desperate to sleep in our beds and rescue our son from his way-too-small travel cot. And there all the parts were, just waiting to be put together, a job we could do inside two hours. Well, about seven weeks later we found the screws, bolts and Allen keys in pretty much the last box we unpacked. Our moving guys had thoughtfully marked the box 'music CDs'. Oh and there were a grand total of 2 CDs in the box. |
| writesonwater | Posted – 7/21/2007 1:58:33 PM | show profile One emergency box should stay particularly handy -- toilet paper, light bulbs, local map, that sort of thing. Have each family member pack their own small bag of stuff they got to have -- change of clothes, blanky, whatever. Put baggie of screws, bolts etc and tape baggie to the thing being assembled -- or keep in a catch-all box that's kept handy, as other poster said. While you pack, keep 2 garbage bags or boxes handy -- one to throw away, one to give away. Don't pack and move stuff you don't even use now. |
| foodlit | Posted – 7/22/2007 8:40:00 AM | show profile Do as much ahead of time as possible. Especially weeding through and donating or throwing stuff out. I didn't do this, and ended up lugging hundreds of books that I am now going to pare down and donate to local libraries...if I'd done it before I moved, it would have made a lot more sense. Also, if you can afford it, have movers move everything. To save money, we used movers for the big stuff, bedroom sets, sofas, etc. and moved the many boxes of stuff ourself with a Uhaul. Never again. Next time, I'll pack, label clearly, and let the movers move it all, so all I have to do is unpack. |
| Stressed | Posted – 7/22/2007 12:25:52 PM | show profile Interestingly (well maybe), when we disassembled our various beds and cots we did actually tie the various nuts, screws 'n' bolts to the frames in baggies. Our removal men very helpfully decided to 'pack them away safely'! |
