The Simple Dollar’s Moving Tips

Unless you have tons of help or are highly organized, get a moving service.

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Even if you do all the packing yourself, their efficiency can be utterly incredible. We packed all of our own materials, so our moving service just carried the boxes to the new house. It still took seven hours, but I estimated it would have taken me twenty or so by myself (my wife is pregnant and can’t help) and somewhat less with friends, but still not anywhere near that efficient.

The Simple Dollar’s Moving Tips

Label your boxes - the more detail, the better.

We wrote a target room on the top, along with a few words summarizing what was inside. The few seconds it took to do this for each box we packed was well worth the time when we moved in - we just put stuff in the target room and was ready to go.