AVOID STRESS DURING YOUR MOVE!

AVOID STRESS DURING YOUR MOVE!

 

You finally found your new home, and you already scheduled your moving-in day. But even as you think about the move, you start getting stressed. Your stress is not misplaced. After all, uprooting oneself and boxing up one’s entire life to move to a new house is anything but a walk in the park. While you cannot reduce your stress to 0%, you can reduce it significantly. Up ahead, we list a few tips that will help you as you move to your new home.

Plan to reminisc

First, you would have to plan for the days leading up to your move. Give yourself ample time to pack, because, if you are like most people, unearthing an old notebook from high school or chancing upon a photo album could make you sentimental. Give yourself the time to reminisce over the memories, then pack them up.

Look back

If you are like most people, unearthing an old notebook from high school or an old photo album could make you sentimental. Packing is important, but give yourself time to relive the memories that come flooding in. This means you might have to give yourself allowance time for packing. Specifically plan to set aside at least 2-3 days of allowance time in case you get carried away with reliving your memories.

To hire or not to hire a professional moving company?

Next, decide if you will be hiring a professional moving company to help you move. It may come with a price, but in exchange, you could reduce your stress significantly, especially on moving day itself. These companies provide manpower to help you move all your furniture and boxes, as well as a truck or van to transport them in. Moving companies train their members specifically how to handle fragile items such as paintings or glassware. If you would rather not concern yourself over carefully packaging each item in your art or glassware collection, then perhaps hiring a professional moving company is best for you. Not only will this lessen your packing-up stress, but it will also free up your time, which in turn will lessen your stress even more.

Leave space for the unexpected

While planning every little detail for your move could be helpful, don’t allow yourself to become a micromanager. If anything, becoming obsessed with even the tiniest of details could make you more stressed! Leave blank a day or two before your scheduled moving day to accommodate any last-minute trips to the grocery for travel snacks or last-minute packing-up. Even if you end up doing nothing on those days, at least you could spend some time going around your old house and reliving the good memories you have had while living there.

This point is particularly important especially on moving day, when emotions are high and nerves are thin, and especially if you will be moving with young children. Expect to have delays in your timetable as last-minute tasks pile up. After all, even with the best planning, life always finds a way to throw a curve ball at us. Expect this, and be flexible enough to adjust.

We leave you with one last note: as you finalize the details in your move, don’t forget to enjoy this. You are moving to a new home! While it could be stressful and emotional, leaving behind the old and moving forward to the new is a necessary part of life.

We hope our tips were helpful to you, and we wish you a stress-free move into your new home.

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