While packing up your home during a move can feel pretty disorganized, it’s the unpacking after you’ve moved when you really need to focus on getting your organization in place. If you fail to get things organized when you first bring them into your new house, it’s going to be much harder to reorganize everything at a later date.
Knowing this, it’s worth it to spend some time and effort planning how you’ll pack and unpack when you move. To help you with this, here are three tips for staying organized when unpacking after a move.
Finish A Room Before Starting On A New One
When you were packing, hopefully you labeled all of the boxes or storage containers you were using to move your stuff. With proper labeling, you should know which room each box is supposed to be in for unpacking.
As you unpack your boxes, Diane Schmidt, a contributor to The Spruce, advises that you get one room completely unpacked before you move onto unpacking in another room. By doing this, you’ll ensure that each room gets settled as you move through the house and you don’t have any half-done projects that you begrudging have to come back to later. And, if you find something that needs to be housed in a different room, simply bring it into that room and wait to find it’s new home until you start unpacking that particular room.
Plan Out Your Kitchen Before Unpacking
One room that you’re going to have to be very strategic about when unpacking is your kitchen. When a kitchen isn’t correctly organized, the entire workflow of that space can be very negatively impacted.
Before you begin unpacking any of your kitchen boxes, Marian White, a contributor to Moving.com, shares that you should first plan out how you’ll use and move through your kitchen. Find which items will make the most sense in which locations so you don’t have to keep shuffling things around as you empty out more of your boxes. This will help you to save time and sanity, both now and later.
Give Everything A Place
While you were packing up your home, you likely found yourself getting rid of things that you didn’t need to make the move with you into your new home. And although you might have thought that you pared down enough, once you’re unpacking in your new home, you might find that some things that you brought with you don’t have a logical place in your home.
From an organizational standpoint, Tara Mastroeni, a contributor to MyMove.com, shares that everything should be given a place to permanently be stored. And if that place doesn’t exist, keep that item in the box you packed it in until you figure out either where to put it or decide to donate it to someone else.
If you’re going to be moving soon, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you stay organized as you unpack in your new home.
