When notifying people about your move, be sure to include utilities, post office, social security, publications to which you subscribe, doctors, insurance companies, and the phone company. If you also go through your address book, you'll be less likely to overlook someone who'll want or need to know you're moving.
Take a survival package along with the family so you can camp in your new home until the moving van arrives. Include instant coffee, cups, spoons, soap and towels, a can and bottle opener, some light bulbs, a flashlight, toilet paper, cleansing powder, and a first aid kit. Also be sure that daily medications travel with you. Moving will go more smoothly if you make a master checklist of everything that must be done in connection with the move. So thatyou don't fall behind, schedule a deadline for each task.
If you're going to move a considerable distance, get your youngsters into the act. Encourage them to look up facts on your new location at the libraiy, and let them help you plot the most convenient route on a map. If you're moving only a short distance, let them examine the new house and neighborhood before the move.
When leaving your previous home, empty the children's rooms last, and restructure their rooms first when you've arrived at your new home. This helps them adjust psychologically.
Planning a Moving Sale
If you hold a house or garage sale to dispose of unwanted items before moving, you'll not only make money, you'll save money by not having to pay for transporting unwanted possessions.
Your sale will be more organized if you categorize odds and ends in bins. For example, have one bin for kitchen gadgets, another for books, and another for records. To keep pairs of shoes together, tie them with yarn or string. To get the best prices at your moving sale, clean and shine the objects you're selling and display them creatively.
To display the clothes you re selling, rig up a clothesline. You can also throw an old sheet over part of the clothesline for a makeshift dressing room.
Make sure you have plenty of newspapers, old boxes, and groceiy bags for packing up the items purchased.
Packing for a MoveMave space by not packing the unbreakable contents of tightly loaded drawers. Simply tape the drawers in place with strips of wide masking tape. To minimize tape marks, remove the tape as soon as the furniture arrives at your new home.
Get carpets and slipcovers cleaned before you move. They'll come back wrapped and ready to go.
Small linens such as towels, washcloths, and pillowcases also can serve as packing material for dishes and glassware and they don't waste space.
If you pack books so their spines are alternated, they will take up less space. (It may be cheaper to ship books via the United States mail, since the post office offers an inexpensive, fourth- class book rate.)
To prevent odors from developing in the refrigerator or freezer during the move, put several charcoal briquettes inside the unit to absorb the odors. Or fill the refrigerator or freezer with wadded-up newspapers. The paper will absorb any moisture and help prevent odors.
Plates are less likely to break if they are packed standing on edge. To minimize breakage of glass items, place the heavier ones on the bottom and the more delicate ones on top. Excelsior or pieces of crumpled newspaper make good packing material. If vou have several days to pack before moving, dampen the excelsior so it will shape itself to the china and glassware.
Because furniture casters sometimes fall out when a piece is lifted, remove them ahead of time. Tie them together with heavy twine, and tag them so you know which piece of furniture they fit.
As you tape up each packed box, place a piece of kite string underneath the tape, leaving about an inch sticking out. When it's time to unpack, just pull on the string, which will slit right through the tape.
Moving In
If you have access to the new home a day or so before the van arrives, you could set off a bug bomb or spray. (Even if you don't see bugs, there may be some.) This way, you won't worry about your family, your pets, foods, or furnishings during the spraying.
If you're going to arrive before the movers, consider bringing a book, radio, or portable tele-vision with you to while away the wait.
To save time and eliminate confusion when the movers arrive, draw a floor plan of your new home ahead of time. Sketch in and number your furnishings the way you want them arranged. Tag furniture pieces to correspond to the floor plan so the movers know where to put each piece.
If you drive to your new location and arrive late, spend the first night at a motel rather than trying to "settle in" when everyone's tired. Every-thing will seem much more manageable in the morning.
Take a survival package along with the family so you can camp in your new home until the moving van arrives. Include instant coffee, cups, spoons, soap and towels, a can and bottle opener, some light bulbs, a flashlight, toilet paper, cleansing powder, and a first aid kit. Also be sure that daily medications travel with you. Moving will go more smoothly if you make a master checklist of everything that must be done in connection with the move. So thatyou don't fall behind, schedule a deadline for each task.
If you're going to move a considerable distance, get your youngsters into the act. Encourage them to look up facts on your new location at the libraiy, and let them help you plot the most convenient route on a map. If you're moving only a short distance, let them examine the new house and neighborhood before the move.
When leaving your previous home, empty the children's rooms last, and restructure their rooms first when you've arrived at your new home. This helps them adjust psychologically.
Planning a Moving Sale
If you hold a house or garage sale to dispose of unwanted items before moving, you'll not only make money, you'll save money by not having to pay for transporting unwanted possessions.
Your sale will be more organized if you categorize odds and ends in bins. For example, have one bin for kitchen gadgets, another for books, and another for records. To keep pairs of shoes together, tie them with yarn or string. To get the best prices at your moving sale, clean and shine the objects you're selling and display them creatively.
To display the clothes you re selling, rig up a clothesline. You can also throw an old sheet over part of the clothesline for a makeshift dressing room.
Make sure you have plenty of newspapers, old boxes, and groceiy bags for packing up the items purchased.
Packing for a MoveMave space by not packing the unbreakable contents of tightly loaded drawers. Simply tape the drawers in place with strips of wide masking tape. To minimize tape marks, remove the tape as soon as the furniture arrives at your new home.
Get carpets and slipcovers cleaned before you move. They'll come back wrapped and ready to go.
Small linens such as towels, washcloths, and pillowcases also can serve as packing material for dishes and glassware and they don't waste space.
If you pack books so their spines are alternated, they will take up less space. (It may be cheaper to ship books via the United States mail, since the post office offers an inexpensive, fourth- class book rate.)
To prevent odors from developing in the refrigerator or freezer during the move, put several charcoal briquettes inside the unit to absorb the odors. Or fill the refrigerator or freezer with wadded-up newspapers. The paper will absorb any moisture and help prevent odors.
Plates are less likely to break if they are packed standing on edge. To minimize breakage of glass items, place the heavier ones on the bottom and the more delicate ones on top. Excelsior or pieces of crumpled newspaper make good packing material. If vou have several days to pack before moving, dampen the excelsior so it will shape itself to the china and glassware.
Because furniture casters sometimes fall out when a piece is lifted, remove them ahead of time. Tie them together with heavy twine, and tag them so you know which piece of furniture they fit.
As you tape up each packed box, place a piece of kite string underneath the tape, leaving about an inch sticking out. When it's time to unpack, just pull on the string, which will slit right through the tape.
Moving In
If you have access to the new home a day or so before the van arrives, you could set off a bug bomb or spray. (Even if you don't see bugs, there may be some.) This way, you won't worry about your family, your pets, foods, or furnishings during the spraying.
If you're going to arrive before the movers, consider bringing a book, radio, or portable tele-vision with you to while away the wait.
To save time and eliminate confusion when the movers arrive, draw a floor plan of your new home ahead of time. Sketch in and number your furnishings the way you want them arranged. Tag furniture pieces to correspond to the floor plan so the movers know where to put each piece.
If you drive to your new location and arrive late, spend the first night at a motel rather than trying to "settle in" when everyone's tired. Every-thing will seem much more manageable in the morning.
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