I will DEFINETLY use some of these tips this week and next! I'm leaving my dorm this Saturday, then staying at my parents house for a week, then moving into my new apartment on the 13th! I'm super excited, but I'm a horrid packrat and a compulsive DIYer, so it's hard for me to get rid of stuff I think that I MIGHT want to use... I did, however, go and donate a bag full of stuff to Goodwill today! AND I resisted the urge to go inside and shop!
But yes, I'm definetly going to have to resist the urge to start grabbing things from home and bringing them back with me, and also to leave some of what I had this year behind... I REALLY don't have the room for all of it! I just have to learn--if it doesn't match the room, and doesn't fit in it's own drawer, you have to get rid of it!
jasimar
May 02, 2007
Moving sale.
After I'd had everything I loved packed in boxes and the furniture I'd intended to move stowed away, I had a full apt moving sale. A tray of cookies and some well placed signs grabbed me some extra cash for the things I didn't want to take with.
malicious
May 01, 2007
When we moved across town a few years ago, we hired a moving truck (I believe it was 2 Men & A Truck) for their two hour minimum to get all the big heavy stuff moved over efficiently and professionally. After that we loaded up our cars, friends cars & pick-up trucks with boxes, loose items, etc. I liked doing it that way because friends and family still got to help but no one had to do any extraordinary lifting and risk injury.
dwarrenku
April 30, 2007
I can attest to the shoe store's boxes being large. My parents have owned shoe stores for a while now, and whenever I need to move, I always go get boxes.
Shoot for the beginning of the spring or fall seasons, since that's when most new shipments come in. That means go in February / early March or late July / early August.
SpiffyJenny
April 30, 2007
If you are moving cross-country, try not to be a sentimental packrat and move things that are broken, need to be "re-done", etc. I have had experience with sentimentality, the mover's #1 enemy. (The packrat typically is in denial about how much stuff they actually have.)
Most people I know are of Ikea-range budgets. If it costs you more (in gas AND space in a rental truck) to move it than to replace it, don't take it! Buy new stuff
If you're moving to Houston, I'll even put your Ikea stuff together! I can't get enough of home assembly.
Great examples of leave behinds are:
-Mom's old recliner -Pillows that you have drooled on for three years -Your 12 year old bed (seriously– if there are springs sticking out, it needs to stay behind) -Old non-fitting Clothes - they can add up to be heavy and take up so much space!
This may apply to people of the first-apartment or first-home kind, but I am not very sentimental about much, so it's easy for me.. :)
Also, i find that a plastic drop cloth makes great saran wrap for a lawnmover, weed eater, etc. Not as much stinky gassy smell..
lafemmedramatique
I will DEFINETLY use some of these tips this week and next! I'm leaving my dorm this Saturday, then staying at my parents house for a week, then moving into my new apartment on the 13th! I'm super excited, but I'm a horrid packrat and a compulsive DIYer, so it's hard for me to get rid of stuff I think that I MIGHT want to use... I did, however, go and donate a bag full of stuff to Goodwill today! AND I resisted the urge to go inside and shop!
But yes, I'm definetly going to have to resist the urge to start grabbing things from home and bringing them back with me, and also to leave some of what I had this year behind... I REALLY don't have the room for all of it! I just have to learn--if it doesn't match the room, and doesn't fit in it's own drawer, you have to get rid of it!
jasimar
Moving sale.
After I'd had everything I loved packed in boxes and the furniture I'd intended to move stowed away, I had a full apt moving sale. A tray of cookies and some well placed signs grabbed me some extra cash for the things I didn't want to take with.
malicious
dwarrenku
I can attest to the shoe store's boxes being large. My parents have owned shoe stores for a while now, and whenever I need to move, I always go get boxes.
Shoot for the beginning of the spring or fall seasons, since that's when most new shipments come in. That means go in February / early March or late July / early August.
SpiffyJenny
If you are moving cross-country, try not to be a sentimental packrat and move things that are broken, need to be "re-done", etc. I have had experience with sentimentality, the mover's #1 enemy. (The packrat typically is in denial about how much stuff they actually have.)
Most people I know are of Ikea-range budgets. If it costs you more (in gas AND space in a rental truck) to move it than to replace it, don't take it! Buy new stuff
If you're moving to Houston, I'll even put your Ikea stuff together! I can't get enough of home assembly.
Great examples of leave behinds are:
-Mom's old recliner
-Pillows that you have drooled on for three years
-Your 12 year old bed (seriously– if there are springs sticking out, it needs to stay behind)
-Old non-fitting Clothes - they can add up to be heavy and take up so much space!
This may apply to people of the first-apartment or first-home kind, but I am not very sentimental about much, so it's easy for me.. :)
Also, i find that a plastic drop cloth makes great saran wrap for a lawnmover, weed eater, etc. Not as much stinky gassy smell..
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