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Julieboo
Member
02-05-2002
| Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:34 am
Any advice out there? I have some advice for moving when you are doing it yourself, but we are hiring movers. We are packing ourselves. I know the day will be nuts (there will be a minimum of 3 closings that day-our buyer selling his place/our sell/our buy/and possibly our seller buying their new place, etc...) I will arrange for my son and my animals to be gone all that day. Other than that, I am at a loss. I will try to get everything in boxes and lined up in the garage and labeled before that day. When it gets like about a week away, I plan to "pack a suitcase" like we were going on a trip and pack everything else up-just live outta the suitcase. I am making several trips to the AM-VETs truck and resale shops to get rid of good stuff we don't need/use. And throwing out what I can. DH is a huge packrat and saves all sorts of momentos. (uggh!) Wish I knew a way to convince him to let me dump more stuff, but that is stuff of another thread! So I am looking for any kind of suggestions, advice, etc. It is a local move.
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Texannie
Member
07-16-2001
| Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 6:39 am
When you are labeling boxes, label your cyrstal/china/silver something like attic, you don't want to announce what they are. Definitely pack a suitcase. Also get a cooler for the things in your fridge that you make want to take in the car with you..milk ect. To save on cost, pack your towels ect in trashbags and move them yourself. Also paintings.
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, April 21, 2004 - 9:22 am
Julieboo, we did several long-distance moves and I have learned to have 1 or 2 boxes labelled priority. In these boxes I kept bedding, towels for each family member, dog dish/blanket and one complete place setting with cutlery and a few microwavable dishes. This will provide the most urgent needs when everyone arrives dead tired at night. First room I would put into order was the kitchen, everything else followed from there.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Friday, May 28, 2004 - 12:58 pm
Just in this folder for the first time, so this suggestion may be woefully late, but my suggestion is in the same line as Lumbele. What I did last move (and this saved my life) is that on the urgent/I gotta have to live boxes I took a bright red Sharpie and in addition to marking the room and urgent I make big red stars * * * all around each side and top. I told the movers (who messed up more than they got right) that these MUST be put in an easily accessible place in each room. Where this saved me is since they had the huge, bright stars I could spot my urgent stuff ie all my daily toiletries which the movers put in the basement (under several basement boxes) disregarding the Upstairs bath/urgent label. LOL. BUT I could spot it easily. Same with other boxes. I HIGHLY recommend this trick. Moving is hell period, but this was one thing that helped me big time!
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Sbw
Member
08-09-2000
| Friday, May 28, 2004 - 1:03 pm
Lurk, I am in the process of packing to move. I am working on the very things you just mentioned, the "gotta haves". I will be using your trick.
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Schoolmarm
Member
02-18-2001
| Friday, May 28, 2004 - 1:35 pm
I'm taking the gotta haves in the car with me and the plants. I close on the house I'm selling on July 13th. I go house hunting on Monday. Still need to call for the movers.
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Lurknomore
Member
07-07-2001
| Friday, May 28, 2004 - 2:06 pm
WoW active thread lol....glad it helped Sbw. School I wasn't talking about the stuff that would fit in a car...I meant the stuff in each room that you MUST have to live or most important to unpack FIRST. IE kitchen; coffee maker, mug, a pan; Bathroom - shampoo, hair dryer, TP etc. (Actually here's another tip...I closed a few days before my move so I could move fragile stuff, change light fixtures and locks, and other good intentions I ran out of time to do lol. I made sure I put TP in each bathroom. I learned this from my last move when I got there and realized there was a bathroom CRISIS lol). Unless you have a LOT less must haves than I do, they didn't fit in my car. Though I did make several runs with my plants, fragile stuff and packed a few suitcases with the basic must haves, like clothes and makeup. But I meant the key living stuff for each room that you need first. Good luck on finding a perfect spot. And can you cut it that close where you live, in terms of getting movers, a house, etc? I thought I was rushed and I had more time than that lol.
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