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Have you ever been embarrassed by someone inadvertently stumbling onto a personal item of yours in your home? If you haven’t, it can be a very awkward situation that, in the case of moving, could have been avoided if you had made sure to pack those items before your move day.  Medications Some people like certain illnesses of theirs to remain private. If this is the case, be sure to have these medications packed, likely in a bag that is going with you so that you have them when it’s time to take them.  Feminine Products Some women find it a little uncomfortable to have their feminine products in the open for all to see. So these may be items that you’d want to have packed up, likely in a bag you’re taking with you.  Private Items
You know those items that you hide in your sock drawer or between the mattress and the box spring of your bed? You know what kind of items I’m referring to. If you don’t want a mover to stumble upon these when they’re packing or moving your bed, make sure they’re packed before they’ve arrived. Pack these items in either a bag you’re taking with you or in a well secured box. You wouldn’t want the box to bust open and tumble the items all over the place or have the box left open and ruin all your hard work at hiding them. Illicit Paraphernalia If you do have an illicit drug you’re rather fond of, please remember to pack up any items pertaining to your habit. We would rather not be put in that situation and you probably would want to keep that as secret as possible due to its illegality. Private or Racy Media You may want to consider having your racy magazines and movie disks packed away also. This prevents your movers from seeing your preferences, if that would make you uncomfortable.
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By Ella Andrews, Guest Writer As the world has become a global village, businesses, education everything has become globalized. This has increased the number of people moving house, as sometimes families have to move because of their jobs and sometimes they have to do it because of education. Hence the number of house movers has increased and is even continuing to grow every day. Moving home is a very stressful job which requires a lot of patience. Sometimes it can be very traumatic for an individual. However a little planning and organization can make the entire process easier and help you be less tensed and hassled. Who will be doing it? The first thing you need to decide is whether you will be moving by yourself or if you’ll hire a company. If you decide to outsource it, a little research about moving companies will be required. You need to research about the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of their services. Their schedule should also be kept in mind that is you should hire them some months before you move. And if you have chosen to move by yourself then you need to check whether you have adequate transportation for relocating items or not.  Plan well in advance Shifting can be made less stressful, if you organize your house a few days before starting the process. This will make the process smoother for you. Furniture removals and moving other big items is not that stressful as the removal of small items. Therefore packing stuff, especially small items, should be planned and performed with patience and care. Before packing, decide whether you will be taking all the stuff along with you or not. There is no sense in moving stuff you do not want in your new house. For this you should consider the size of your new house, the area of it, and the decor there. Along with this, moving house is a great opportunity to get rid of all the useless and old items that you have kept for years. You can donate them or throw them away; this will make your move lighter and packing quicker. Pack as early as possible Do not delay your packing till the last moment, start it as early as possible. Begin the packing with the stuff that won’t be required until you move such as books, pots, off-season clothing and stuff like that. Once you have packed these items in the moving boxes, stack them all in a separate room designated to these boxes only. Label properly After packing the items in boxes, do not forget to label them. Label as per you convenience. Label the boxes according to the rooms they belong to or label them according to the items they carry. Making labels color-coded as per rooms and items can further customize labeling. This will require efficiency because labeling will not only make unpacking easy but it will also help in loading as it will indicate which box needs to be handled with due care and which can be loaded with ordinary care.  The essentials box
Make a separate box of essentials. Fill this box with all the necessary items that you will need to get through the first few days in your new house. This will eliminate the panic of unpacking all the boxes to find any of the items you need. Transfer the utilities Do not forget to turn all the utilities on in your new home. Make sure you have contacted the gas, electricity, telephone and cable companies and they are ready to install the connection, as all these utilities take time to connect. On the other hand, do not forget to turn off the utilities at your old house once you have left. Removals and storage, loading and unloading can all be made stress free if you get well prepared for the big day. by Ayla Urwin-Toll, P. R. Representative One of the most important steps in the moving process is to begin purging items that have been in your home and of little use or can be easily replaced in your new location. This can be done during the packing process or proceeding it. Be Ruthless Being ruthless in your purging can save you money. You'll need less packing supplies, labor, and space in a truck to get the job done. To do this, ask yourself questions. When was the last time I used this item? Is it still useful? Is it broken? If it has been a long time since you used it or if it is no longer useful you should consider discarding the item. Being Sentimental Everyone has items that they hold sentimental and important to them. To a certain extent, this is okay and understandable. You should avoid letting this get out of hand. For example, having over a dozen boxes each of art that your children made for you is excessive and should be avoided. We would recommend picking your absolute favorites and discarding the excess.  Stockpiling and Throwing a ‘Purge Party’ Some people stockpile items to prevent running out of items like soaps, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. This is a very useful tactic when you are living in a location for a significant amount of time, but can become a problem if you plan on moving. ‘How do I get rid of 15 packs of toilet paper? Or should I pay to have all of it moved?’ becomes your conundrum. We recommend having what we call a ‘Purge Party.’ This is an event that you set up before your move solely for the purposes of getting rid of your stockpiled items and saying goodbye to your friends in the neighborhood. You can set up a raffle, game, or door prize of your excess items. You can also use the party to get rid of items that you haven’t used in a long time, but are still in working order.  With these tips we hope that you have some ideas in order to get rid of your excess items and have a much smoother move. Thank you for reading and feel free to leave a comment with your tips and tricks for purging your items.
By Guest Writer Ella Andrews There are so many things to do and to think of, that to find the best order is often quite a challenge. However, let's get through the basics. Make yourself a great plan for your relocation. A great tip is to start making your plan at least a couple of months before the move. Organize everything from changing the accounts for suppliers to telling your neighbors about the move. If you have small kids - tell them about the change of house and perhaps the most interesting details about the new house - how far it is located, the arrangement of the rooms, something interesting about the new school, etc. Give plenty of time to your kids to get used to the idea of the relocation, which will definitely reduce the stress. Another great tip for the planning is to make yourself a moving checklist. It requires plenty of time to organize it in a clean and proper manner, so put it high on the agenda. It is essential to do it as early as possible, which is the key for a flawless moving day without the need for hurry. During the planning, highlight some goals or milestones in the checklist.  The next basic step is to prepare everything for the move. Give tasks to all the family members, which will definitely enhance the hustle and bustle at home, but it will definitely make everything easier as well. For instance, the kids can take care about the sorting and de-cluttering of their own toys and clothes, while the strongest family members can take care of the dismantling and sorting of the biggest and heaviest furnishings. You want to prepare only the things that you really want to take with you to the new house. Once the true volume and size of your belongings are determined - it's time to find the perfect removal company and to make the booking of your relocation. Start by asking a friend or a colleague maybe to recommend a company. If they have a great previous experience with such a company - a recommendation can save plenty of time for searching. Or else, stroll through the sites of the companies in your region, check out their services, removal vans, specs, offers, etc., and request quotes. Compare the quotes and select the one that suits your needs. Then, call the moving agent to discuss the details and the preferred date for the move. Find a company at least a couple of weeks before the move. If moving house with all the furnishings from two or three floors - then you probably need to look for a company with a team of professional movers and book a huge removal van, or perhaps a truck. Request enough boxes from the company or in brief - prepare everything for packing and loading in the moving van.  The packing might be a long and overwhelming journey too. Always label every box with a proper label according to the checklist. Make special boxes for fragile items, for very expensive items, or for the biggest and heaviest items. Protect well your belongings before packing by using different protective materials. Bubble wraps, heavy-duty tapes, plastic bags, edge protectors and plastic wraps - there are plenty of useful materials that you can probably find in your home. Apply all the space-saving techniques that you know and try to dismantle as many objects as possible, which indeed is one of the best ways to save valuable space.
By Guest Writer Ella Andrews If you do everything by yourself including the packing and labeling of your possessions, and not with a professional team that makes the inventory and the labeling with encoding - then, check out the following tips and tricks you should know when labeling the removal boxes. There are plenty of advantages when everything is strictly organized and labeled. For example, when it's time for heavy lifting and loading the boxes in the moving van - you may not know how heavy the box is by just looking at it. You may also not remember what's inside the box and thus the risk from bent and broken items is quite an issue. Labeling the boxes becomes very handy. It gives you a perfect orientation even if all the boxes look just about the same. 
Ella Andrews, Guest Writer After a long moving day, the same journey just begins again, but only in the new house. Take your free time to get used to the new environment, check and double-check the presence of all the items and objects, according to the moving checklist. Then, begin un-boxing and arranging the items. Yet these are only a couple of things that are about to happen after furniture removals. Take a look at the following highlights and you will find more. 
By Ella Andrews, Guest Writer Removals are very hectic and long processes to perform. It is one of the biggest days of one's life and its stress can be compared to that of the stress of getting married or getting divorced. The process starts from the very first day when you plan to sell out your property or when you opt to go for a new location. It continues until you are well settled in your new home and unpack all your stuff. Obviously, this long process also comes with a lot of stress. Always remember that if you are going to plan well then this stress can be converted into a fun. Try to keep yourself prepared enough that this journey might become a fun filled and full of excitement roller coaster ride. Make it happen in such a way that as soon as you jump into your car then you stop thinking about the old life and just step into your new one. People just feel amazed that this can happen but really it can. The question is how to get prepared for the removal. One of the simplest ways is to hire a trustworthy removal company for your help. Even after hiring professional help, there are many things that you can do in order to keep things simpler and smoother for you. Following are few tips that can help you in making your experience a memorable one.  Prepare the stuff that will go with you in your car. This might sound odd but it really matters a lot. People do not take it seriously as they consider it an eleventh hour's job. But this is not true. It is better to be prepared in advance than to regret later. Anything that is done at the last hour is full of flaws. At the last minute there are chances that you might get panicked and can forget many little things. Moving house is not easy and you will definitely take few days in your new house to get well settled. It is better that you must prepare a bag that can be kept with you while moving home. You can keep all the urgently required belongings in that bag. Prepare the bag few days ahead of moving and then keep it in some room like the living room. On the day of removal, you can put this bag in your car in the early morning to get yourself ready. Make sure that your important documents and other valuables like gadgets and expensive jewellry items are kept in this bag. You can look for the checklist of these urgently required items on the internet for help. The day of moving house can be very much risky in terms of security. This is because a number of people (including removal company staff) will be entering and exiting. You need to keep an eye over the people who are working and you should not let anyone enter into the house who does not look familiar to you. Keeping this check is very necessary in order to avoid any kind of incident. For this, you need to stay alert and present at the entrance all the time until the loading or unloading of your items is done.  The day of moving house can be very much risky in terms of security. This is because a number of people (including removal company staff) will be entering and exiting. You need to keep an eye over the people who are working and you should not let anyone enter into the house who does not look familiar to you. Keeping this check is very necessary in order to avoid any kind of incident. For this, you need to stay alert and present at the entrance all the time until the loading or unloading of your items is done.
Ask your friends or family members to be there as they can help you a lot. You can assign them any duty in order to keep yourself light and stress free. The friends and family members can be invaluable on this day. By Ella Andrews, Guest Writer Amazon, Apple, Google – these are just a few names of gigantic businesses which were born as garage startups. Moving office is something common. Many companies undertake it when they need to grow and expand and the old office appears to be too small and outdated for the purpose. The process of moving, however, is not always smooth and easy. Here are some of the challenges that businesses face during relocation.  1. Choosing the right location Location matters. In fact, it is one of the most important items on the business’ moving checklist. A good location is likely to attract new customers, cut transportation expenses and increase employee satisfaction. However, it could also result in changing partners, contracts and utility providers. Each manager should consider these possibilities in advance in order to avoid unnecessary confusion, stress, and losses. 2. Deciding on an office size If a business wants to grow, it would probably need a bigger office. All the new hires, conference rooms and technology would require enough space. However, the company should make sure that they can afford it. A larger office with a more central location is likely to cost a lot. Everybody dreams to work in a spacious and modern building, but no one wants to go bankrupt there. 3. The costs of moving office Packing and moving everything you have in the office is not an easy task. You might need to relocate heavy technology, equipment, furniture and, of course, tons of documentation. Few people possess their own van, so you might need to hire a man and a van for the transportation. Another thing you could do is to trust a professional moving company. It will help you with everything – from packing to delivering and unpacking your belongings. However, you need to consider the cost of these removal services and whether you can afford it.  4. Administrative changes
As you are moving the business to a new location, you also need to change your address and notify your clients. Make sure you have paid all the necessary bills and you have rearranged your contracts with utility providers. Keep in mind that the new address should now appear on all your important documentation, business cards and promotional materials. This is also related to new expenses. 5. Let everybody know you are moving Some of your customers might be disappointed that the office is moving. Perhaps the previous location was more convenient for them. Perhaps they were just used to it. The truth is that people often resist change. Notifying your customers that you are moving is not enough. You need to make them feel that you are doing it to provide them with better products and services. You can do that by organizing a reception in the new building. Invite all your customers, partners and employees. Make them feel special. Celebrate the new office, explore the place together. That will be one great way to move in and start a new era in your business. If you find a way to overcome these challenges, moving to a new office will present you with numerous benefits for your business. “If you can dream it, you can do it” Walt Disney said. His small garage film studio changed numerous locations, before it became one of the world’s greatest media conglomerates. Ella Andrews, Guest Contributor The fragile items should be very carefully wrapped and protected. The electronic devices are even more vulnerable in some specific cases, such as moving in a rainy weather or in the wintertime. The distance for handling the removal boxes is important too, and the number of your helpers is not an exception. Take a look at the following important factors to keep in mind and advice to avoid breaking fragile objects during the move.  1) Spend more time for sorting and de-cluttering. This should take place at least a month before the moving day and yet it all depends on the volume and number of your possessions. If you move the biggest and heaviest objects from a three- or four- bedroom house, you will definitely need more time to sort wisely the biggest and heaviest objects from the fragile ones. By doing so, you get a better orientation about the true size and number of the removal boxes that you will need only for the fragile items. When everything is sorted in the one corner of the room - you can easily compile the moving checklist and organize the column with fragile items, as well as decide which protections to use for these fragile items. 2) For flat objects like mirrors, glass, plates, etc. They are easy to pack and they have some specific challenges to overcome. A great tip is to use big flat removal boxes with very sturdy bottoms from a thick cardboard or even from plastic. The glass or the porcelain plates, for example, can save plenty of space if piled one on top of another, but the box will also become very heavy. That's why the key is to choose the right size box, which can fit the right amount of flat glass objects, according to their size. Another great tip is to put a thin layer of something soft between each glass object. This will eliminate the risk from scratches or breaking the object due to the weight and the friction between two or more glass objects.  3) For objects with irregular shapes like porcelain cups, statues, decorative figures, etc. The choice of the right size box is essential, put aside these objects during the sorting of the fragile items. Each cup should be wrapped individually with a layer of bubble wraps or with a couple of layers of old newspaper, or with another soft material. If you hire a professional removal company for your move - they can give you special card boxes with holes and shelves exactly for the storage of cups and other glass objects with irregular shapes. However, if you do the packing by yourself - make sure to protect each item individually and then put them in one main box. Fill the void spaces with the leftovers of old newspapers, Styrofoam sheets, plastic bags and more.
4) For gigantic glass objects like windows and tabletops, porcelain vases and pots, marble counter-tops, flat TV screens, etc. These objects require some special care when packing them individually, as well as after loading them in the moving van. Attach edge protectors to the edges, which will protect the most vulnerable part of these items while handling and lifting throughout the route to the front door of the house. Second, you can en-wrap the flat glass objects with heavy-duty tape, which will strengthen the object against flexibility under tension or in a case of unwanted impacts. Third, en-wrap all electronic devices with plastic bags and seal them with tape, which will protect them from rain and spills. Fourth, handle the big and heavy objects with your helpers by hand, not by the easy way with handling straps. Most of the time, you are advised to take on a removal company or a man with a van service for your removals, however you may not have big stuff to carry out with you. You may just have your belongings that consist of clothes and shoes as well as other little stuff, for which you do not need a proper removal company. It is helpful to have a car, however if you do not—you don't have to worry. Hiring out a small van that can hold small belongings would definitely help. Carrying out a small removal isn't as complex as you would imagine it to be.  The first thing you need to do, is obtain sturdy boxes or laundry bags. The good thing about laundry bags is the fact that when they are made out of cloth, they make it all that much easier to move house. Boxes have the capacity (especially if they are made of cardboard) to fold and break, due to pressure. You need to use a lot of tape on them and ensure that they are carried from the bottom. With cloth laundry bags, all you need to do is stuff the bag and then use the drawstring (if it is light enough to carry it). One of the key tools is to always make sure that you make piles of your belongings in different spaces. Put your clothes in the bags that you need to take and put your shoes separate. There is nothing worse than having all your belongings mixed up to wonder where everything is when you get to the new place. You can also use the same process for your office or domestic removals, if you did not own any furniture, it will be much simpler. The next part you need to decipher is the load of the stuff you wish to carry. Sometimes you won't always have the correct vehicle to transport everything over. You are able to hire out a car or take the journey to transport your stuff, in a few rounds. Either way, small removals aren't as big of a hassle than someone would imagine them to be. If you haven't got the keys to your place, you can always hire a storage company to help you. Storage companies can safely store all your belongings, without stress.  It can often be a nightmare to think where you can leave your belongings for a few days, not to mention the safety of them. When you use a storage company, you will be able to have access to your belongings at any time of the day and are able to even get storage supplies such as more boxes or crates from the establishment. These types of places are able to even recommend a removal van if you have quite a lot of stuff.
Overall, having small removals can be something that you can do by yourself or you can have someone do it for you. It completely depends on the load of the stuff that you choose to move. There can either be quite a lot or there can be a little that you are able to move by yourself. A house move is usually quite stressful; ensure that you have all this worked out before hand! If you need any guidance, a moving company would be able to advise you best on this. |
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