Learn to Move is designed to teach people just how-to-pack, how-to-move and how-to store their valuable household goods properly in order to avoid personal injuries
Well before your move date, you’ll have to establish a moving checklist. This will identify your order of priority for the various tasks involved in moving up until and including move day. It will also help you to avoid forgetting things. Thus, through this planning and consequent
Generally speaking, there are all kinds of moving checklists to be found on the internet. Most of these are concerned with finding a new residence, transferring bank accounts, notifying the post office of the change of address, transferring schools for children, etc. These are very important and necessary things for you to plan for and do, but they are not included on this page. Instead, they are listed at the end of our general discussion about moving page. We have here elected to limit our moving checklist to just the tasks necessary for packing, transporting and unpacking
The moving checklist categories that we suggest you make, from now until you are moved into your new residence and unpacked, are;
- Set Date of Move
- Set Packing Date(s)
- Establish a List of Helpers and / or a Moving Service to Load / Unload Truck
- Obtain Inexpensive Packing Materials
- Plan Each Room – Sorting / Disposal / Packing / Unpacking
- Plan for Moving your Pets
- Research and Schedule Handymen / Technicians / Appliance Service
- Pre-move Plan for Furniture Disassembly / Reassembly
- Research to Find the Right Rental Truck or Transport Service and Moving Equipment
- Reserve Elevator at Origin and / or Destination
- Plan Furniture Placement at Destination
- Setting Unpacking schedule
Sorting out household goods and disposing of unnecessary things and carefully packing or wrapping the things you are keeping, in advance of move day, expedites your move.
