You've found a new place to live, and now the big day is almost here. Moving day, that is. Before you can get there, though, you've got to pack up your entire life into boxes so that everything you own can be transported to your new residence. Although this process can be slow and arduous, you can make it easier with a technique called pre-packing. This technique has many benefits that can help make your moving experience far more enjoyable.
Only Pack What You Need
The most important component of pre-packing is taking the time to sort through your belongings to determine what you won't need in your new home. After all, you don't want to go to the work of packing something only to get rid of it after you move. Once you've pulled out items that you don't plan to keep, you can sell the nicer items to help cover some of your moving costs.
Understand What Goes Where
Another important part of pre-packing is thinking through where items will end up once you unpack in your new residence. Good real estate agents can help you envision what certain rooms in a home can be used for, which will make this process easier. As you get a feel for what will go together, you can organize these items to be packed together, even if they're not together in your current home.
Start a Stack
The key to successful packing is making forward progress that begins to clear out rooms in your current residence. To help with that aim, it's helpful to clear out a specific area in your home, such as a garage, to be used to collect packed boxes. That way, when a box is packed, you can take it to this staging area so that it takes less time to load the moving truck when it arrives.
Label Everything
Setting up your new home should be fun and joyous, not stressful. To help remove some of the stress, it's important to clearly label each of your moving boxes as they become filled with items. You can even color-code the boxes so that it's easy for all of your moving helpers to understand which room the boxes need to go to.
When going through the entire contents of your home, you're bound to come across some items that you forgot you still had. Therefore, it's perfectly okay to have fun during the pre-packing process. In fact, allowing yourself to reminisce and have fun will help the time pass more quickly so that you can complete the task of packing more easily.
