3 Small Moving Tips Make a Huge Difference

September 13, 2011

Moving is never easy and rarely fun, unless of course you happen to have entertaining and jocular friends that work as movers for their day job. Since most of you probably are not close friends with professional movers, you will most likely enlist the help of friends for the Big Move to what was clearly the best of the Jacksonville NC homes for rent. Here are several little tips to help make the move as easy as possible. While they may be simple things, odds are, at least one thing on this list will make you think “Oh yeah, that’s a good idea. Hadn’t thought of that.” Jacksonville NC homes are beautiful and in great locations, why not listen to a bit of advice to make your move as tame as possible.

1. Move the drawers with the dressers! No, I don’t mean try to move that massive heavy dresser into the truck completely filled. In fact, it is highly advisable that you remove the drawers before you load the monster onto the truck. Once it is safely aboard, though, you should reload the drawers in it, then secure the whole shebang so that your clothes and nicknacks don’t go flying. This will save you space and time. I tried to move without following this step, and the drawers took up all the space I had in my car for moving the small stuff. It also seemed to take forever to load them all in without tearing the upholstery.

2. Use up your groceries! Something that can potentially save you several boxes, hours, or carloads of space and time. What is the point of having all those cans and various foods in your pantry if not to eat them? If you can’t come up with something to make using the various foods in your cupboard before your move day, it might be a sign that not all those cans need to come with you (or get stuffed back into the back of your new pantry to gather a new layer of dust). The idea behind eating the extra stored foods is to lighten the load, obviously. If you don’t buy new food for the week leading up to the move, your pantry should be relatively depleted and therefore far easier to transfer to your new piece of Jacksonville NC real estate or one of those nice Camp Lejeune homes for rent.

3. Load the heavy stuff towards the front. This may seem like a no-brainer, but it is mighty tempting to want to start packing in those nice square boxes in all the empty space they could fit so seamlessly into when you first see the empty truck. Don’t give in! Unless you would rather have those boxes of clothes and glassware to get smashed into oblivion by all the heavy stuff behind it. Load the heavy things first, then use the smaller stuff to fill in the gaps. Remember, you can always accelerate slowly to prevent the backwards shift, but sometimes a quick stop is necessary. If the heavy stuff is in front, there is nothing in the way for it to smash before it comes to a rest. This way, when you get to your Jacksonville NC homes for rent, everything is unbattered and in great condition to refurnish the new place!