Tips for Moving

Guybrush Threepwood

Hi,

I'll be moving next month and don't have a clue where to start when it comes to packing up and getting organised -anyone any tips or advice they'd like to share from their own experience?

Michael D Not Higgins

How much stuff are you moving? If you're moving beds and other large furniture it could be worth getting a proper moving company. For a smaller move with smaller items, you can hire your own moving van for relatively cheap and just rope in some friends to help.

Black bin bags are useful for moving clothes, and make sure you get some sturdy boxes and tape for packing and you might want to get some packing material for fragile items, although balled up newspaper works too.

Cathmandooo

When transferring clothes that you have hanging up it's good to leave them on their hangers and cable tie groups of hangers together, then fold them in a big black bag to keep them together and clean. Makes it easier to hang them straight into your new wardrobe and snip the cable ties.

berrecka

stack plates on top of each other with paper plates in between

Sunny Dayz

A great tip we got when moving house is have one box with the essentials in it - tea, sugar, nightclothes, change of clothes, few toiletries, pack of bickies, batteries, phone charger, headache tablets, kids favourite things, etc.


When your new home is a mountain of boxes and black bin bags and it takes days and weeks to sort out, at least you don't have to go routing for the few essentials when you are exhausted.

The_Morrigan

Sunny Dayz wrote: »

A great tip we got when moving house is have one box with the essentials in it - tea, sugar, nightclothes, change of clothes, few toiletries, pack of bickies, batteries, phone charger, headache tablets, kids favourite things, etc.


When your new home is a mountain of boxes and black bin bags and it takes days and weeks to sort out, at least you don't have to go routing for the few essentials when you are exhausted.

Make sure there is a torch or two in that essentials box and toilet roll

I've used suitcases to transport clothes (especially stuff like underwear) nothing worse than picking up a black sack that has been damaged and your delicates blowing off down the road!

Start packing up non essentials in good time - if you've stuff like books, cd's, extra bedding etc get that all done and dusted well in advance

gozunda

When packing get a mini skip and put everything in you do not need. It reduces packaging considerably.