Tips to Shifting Ingeniously- Save Time, Energy And Stress!

Shifting is not about sacking up your entire luggage into one bag and walking off your old house! Shifting involves firm planning and responsibility to smoothen the act, else a long stretch of tension and irreparable actions are on its way to you!

Only during shifting, does one find the endless crap that had been surviving around them. After finding this stuff, there is the hassle of swooning over some nostalgic crap, finding the broken pieces, the long since lost things and other real useful stuff to be aptly packed. Shifting can indeed be such a menace, with a zillion different things popping up unexpectedly every other second. That again detours us to spending time over each section to check its transportation or waste requirements into the well-cherished new home or the garbage bin, respectively.

Read the tips below to suit your shifting needs-

1) You can always buy cheaper boxes and cello tapes at lower prices and in bulk from Uline.com. Buy boxes more than you think you need for efficient and stress-free packing.

2) Make simple lists of each box of contents in the way that you would like to pack. Make sure you stick these papers on the respective boxes only after filling them with caution to avoid any errors in the process.

3) Now pack breakable and unbreakable stuff separately. For unbreakable stuff, pack them into the regular boxes; and for the unbreakable stuff follow the next step to ensure the perfect packing.

4) Pack your breakable stuff like glassware, fragile cook tops, ceramic plates, glass lanterns, stemware and clay vases in between the clothing like woolens and socks. This can help your keep off the dangers of breaking during transportation of the fragile stuff, and packs up your clothes well. Also, pack your plates vertically to protect them further.

5) Wrap your open and closed toiletries with saran wrap to avoid spillage and due breaking of the gooey lotions and gels.

6) Step by step, unscrew your furniture and save the screws and bolts into individual zip locks and label them with kitchen wardrobe or tea table screws respectively.

7) Also, stuff your clothes just as they hang on the wardrobes with the hanger intact by packing them vertically into long polythene bags. This also helps immensely in unpacking. Use a vacuum seal to protect your delicate clothes that require care.

8) Number your boxes. Moreover, cross check anything that you would have missed. Also, walk around your old house to certify that everything is packed ad sealed.

9) Also, do not be stingy in calling the movers, as they would do a better job at moving fragile and expensive big instruments, if you are concerned enough. This can pay you worth a lot more than the misery upon its breakage. Also, check out the mover’s rule logs.

10) Take pictures of your older house to ensure there are no further charges to cleaning in order to guarantee your end of responsibility.

11) Clean electrical items like refrigerators a day before. Defrost the fridge and wipe off all liquid or stains.

12) Make sure to buy your grocery items at least two weeks before to prevent any wastage.

13) Change your address information and such two weeks before moving into the new place.

Now, with that part done, let us see how moving in can be. After the movers have transported your luggage, check it thoroughly, sit down and do the following:

1) Create a budget first about your redecorating plans. Try to redo the floor first if you have any idea for the same, lest doing it later can irate you and the workers alike.

2) You can also consider redecorating just one room, instead of the entire house.

3) After that is complete, choose your paint and complete the house if necessary.

4) Now, you are ready to unpack.

5) Carry the boxes into the labelled rooms and unpack it there. Do not mess it all up by opening all in one room and in one go.

6) Complete the arrangement of rooms one after another. Start with the kitchen, and then move onto the bedroom and wardrobe and then your bathroom and finally the Hall and rest of the spaces.

7) Arrange the furniture only after the rest of the things are already at the right places.

8) Try to go online and find innovative things that can be made from cheaper materials and personalize your home in your color.

All said and done in the right order, certain mishaps and inconveniences are bound to occur. However, if you are properly planned and set, nothing can break your entire built of hard work but in the worst case, just a stack or two. So have faith, worry less and start thinking about all the ways you can make your new little home to smell and feel you and your own!