I was exhausted from moving, and it was so expensive to find someone to move. This super practical moving guide saved me!

For many of us, moving can be a very stressful event.

This not only refers to the uncertainties caused by changes in living environment, but also the fatigue and hardship of moving.

As a netizen said: Home is like a compressed biscuit, and moving is like a heavy rainstorm. When a compressed biscuit encounters a heavy rainstorm, its volume suddenly expands countless times...

Sister Tiao is here I have moved more than 10 times in Beijing.

For several years, I even moved once a year. I have lived outside the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Ring Roads in Beijing.

Forcibly moved the urban map of Beijing into a circuitous combat map...

I also practiced house-viewing, house-hunting, packing, moving, and dealing with moving companies. Good price.

Although moving is hard, every change of place always means a change.

An exploration of a strange environment, the abandonment of the past, and the curiosity about the future.

So, if you want to move, don’t be too frustrated, follow Sister Tiao to prepare, pack and move in a super organized way~

First of all, you need to prepare for your packing and moving Create a step-by-step schedule.

Sister Tiao provides a 6-week timetable and a weekly Check List.

Check this checklist week by week for everything you need to do during the moving process.

Six weeks before the countdown to moving begins, you should start preparing for your move.

Don’t procrastinate, as putting it off until the end will greatly increase stress for everyone.

If you are a renter, you can contact the landlord to renew the rental contract 6 weeks before the rental contract expires.

If the lease is not renewed, you will need to find another house during these two weekends.

When looking at houses, you need to consider the following aspects:

The countdown to moving has entered the 5th week, and there is still plenty of time.

Once you have determined the house you want to move into, you must already know the furniture and appliances inside.

Start checking out and preparing to move now.

1. Take inventory of your possessions and give away, sell, or throw away things you don’t need to move to your new home.

Go through each room in your home and make a list of the items you will move to your new home on an A4 piece of paper.

Including valuable furniture and home appliances, gifts of tobacco and alcohol, porcelain and crystal, electronic products, household items, etc.

Rather than starting to clean up after you move into your new home, save yourself the effort and expense of packing and start reducing your belongings now.

You can start by throwing away useless things and divide them into three categories: garbage, redundant items, and non-essential items.

Don’t hesitate to throw away these three types of things, because you don’t usually use them and you won’t need them in your new home.

You may feel reluctant to part with it when you throw it away, but the fact is that you will never think of it again after throwing it away.

On the contrary, you will get more time to organize and a vast space in your new home.

After throwing away these three types of items, you can check if some of the household appliances and furniture are old, troublesome to move, and expensive to disassemble, then it is better to post an information on a second-hand website to sell them.

Many rental houses are in need. Selling to them is much more cost-effective than selling to someone who specializes in recycling old furniture, and you don’t have to bother moving.

You can choose to sell home appliances and electronic products on Xianyu, catch more fish to sell books, or donate the clothes you don’t wear on Flying Ant.

Use stored-value shopping cards and hairdressing cards near your current home as soon as possible, retrieve dry-cleaned clothes from the laundry, return deposits for bottled water, sublease parking spaces within the community owner group, etc.

No longer buy bulk items at home, such as toilet paper, shampoo, etc.

2. Compare your new home with your existing residential space and draw movement lines.

Try to imagine where you will place a certain piece of furniture and what the flow of family members will be like.

The clearer you think about it, the better it will be to help you decide which of your existing items don’t need to be moved into your new home.

It’s the 4th week of the countdown to moving, and it’s one month until we move into our new home.

If you have children, you need to start preparing for the transition by giving them time to say goodbye to their usual playmates and places in the community.

Explain to your children about moving and what to do so that they can feel at ease.

For these young children, the changes brought about by moving are unsettling.

For their sake, it's important that you plan ahead and give them special attention as you prepare for your move.

1. Involve your children in the moving process

Tell everyone in the family about the move, and focus on the "when" and "where" of the move. ”, “how” and “why”.

During preparation, keep your children with you as much as possible so that they feel involved in the process.

Let the children pack their own items or decorate and label their own boxes.

2. Help children eliminate uneasiness and reluctance

Before moving, give your children a chance to say goodbye to their friends.

Exchange contact information with other children's parents to ensure children can exchange address information with their friends.

Let your children find the best route to their new home on an atlas or road map.

Let your child bring some of his cherished items to help him strengthen his sense of security and belonging in a small way.

3. Ensure the safety of children

Try to keep children away from the moving site.

Choose a room that movers will not enter, or play at a neighbor's house or park until the move is complete.

Make sure that a family member stays with the children at all times so that other adults can concentrate on the moving process.

4. Celebrate!

Once you are done moving, let your children choose their favorite restaurant or activity to "celebrate" their successful move and the beginning of their new adventure.

The countdown to moving has entered its third week, and preparations have become intensive.

Contact moving companies now to compare prices and make an appointment.

There are currently three options for moving:

The first way is to ask friends to help rent a car. Sister Tiao feels that it will cost a lot to treat friends to dinner afterwards.

The third method is also very good, you don’t have to do it yourself.

In comparison, Sister Tiao feels that the second method is the most cost-effective: packing by yourself and the moving company is responsible for the transportation.

The formula for calculating moving costs is: starting price, extra kilometer fee, floor moving fee, floor moving, disassembly and assembly fee, oversized item moving fee

During the cost communication process, the following items need to be confirmed with the moving company: :

At present, the quotations and service quality of moving companies are also a mixed bag, good and bad.

Sister Tiao once used the moving service of the well-known brand Moutong, but the price was increased.

Some small but beautiful brand moving teams and masters are very pragmatic and reliable.

So keep your eyes open and do more comparisons.

Now that we are talking about moving costs, Sister Tiao will give you some information on moving models.

If you are a married person and have a lot of items at home, our most commonly used models are:

The 4.2-meter van is the most common moving and transportation vehicle.

Many moving companies use it as a standard configuration, with four movers (including drivers) per vehicle.

This kind of vehicle is very suitable for all household moving, ranging from sofa beds, fish tanks, bathtubs, pianos, to washing machines, refrigerators, and rice cookers. There is no problem with this type of vehicle.

Many two-bedroom families move, and once they have a lot of furniture and appliances, they may need to load two cars.

A car often cannot fit in it.

The countdown before moving enters the final 2 weeks.

We have finalized the moving company and made an appointment with the auspicious day. Now we need to make preparations before moving.

Make sufficient preparations, organize or pack all the scattered things, and break them into whole pieces. Naturally, the moving speed will be much faster.

1. Online shopping packaging tools

The necessary items are: cartons, tape, cutter (also called box sealer), oil-based markers, bubble pads or newspapers.

Or go to the supermarket or home appliance store near your home to ask for (or buy) some cardboard boxes.

Some moving companies also provide reusable plastic boxes.

The regular prices on a certain website and the approximate quantities needed to move a 2-bedroom apartment are as follows:

70*50*50 large cartons are used to hold clothing, shoes, and children's toys. , sheets, quilt covers, toilet paper and other lighter items.

Small cartons of 50*35*30 are used to hold heavier items such as books and kitchen supplies.

Sister Tiao will recommend everyone to buy cartons without buckles, because cartons without buckles are the strongest.

Although it is more convenient to use cartons with handles when transporting.

Be sure not to use woven bags! Because it is too easy to break during the moving process and things fall all over the floor.

If you really need it, you can buy an Oxford cloth bag, which is stronger.

If you have this kind of plastic storage box at home, it is very suitable for transporting kitchen seasonings (especially unopened liquid seasonings such as soy sauce and vinegar), refrigerator ingredients, etc., because the cartons are afraid of getting wet.

However, if you don’t have it at home, there is no need to spend money to buy it temporarily.

Just be careful to seal condiments, cosmetics, etc. with plastic wrap when packaging to avoid spilling.

2. Reduce the purchase of large quantities of ingredients from the refrigerator.

Because the food in the refrigerator needs to be taken out before and after moving and will melt.

Once the food in the freezer is not eaten in time, it will rot and deteriorate.

3. Pet moving preparations

If you are a pet owner, you should not forget that moving can also cause stress for your furry friend.

You can help make the transition smooth with a little advance planning.

The last week of the countdown to moving.

Stop buying things and receiving express delivery. You can change all default addresses to send them to work instead of home.

You can start gradually packing items in the first 2 days.

Books, out-of-season clothing and shoes, and spare items under the bed or on the balcony are a good start.

1. Organize a box of commonly used items.

Pack it with any essentials you might need for your last night in your old home and your first day in your new home.

Such as kettle, charger, power strip, change of clothes, water cup, toiletries, toilet paper, rags, packing tape, markers, signature pens, white paper and other tools.

2. Classify and package at the same time.

Usually we pack in the order of clothing - shoes - books - other items - kitchen and bathroom supplies.

That is, the order of big first and then small, first whole and then zero, first strong and then fragile.

Try to put one type of items in a cardboard box. Use small boxes for heavy items and large boxes for light items. This will make it easier to move.

When storing and packing, pack the furniture in the order of the drawers. It will be easier to put them back in place after unpacking.

3. The tape is wrapped more firmly in this way.

4. The side of the box must be marked!

After packing a box, use an oil-based marker on the outside to mark the name of the room, the type and quantity of the contents, etc.

No items will be lost when unboxing.

5. Empty all furniture and wrap the four corners with plastic film to prevent scratching.

Lock the furniture that can be locked and keep the keys.

If it is inconvenient to lock, use ropes or tape to secure the cabinet doors to avoid bumps during transportation.

6. Turn off the power to your refrigerator the day before moving.

7. Take photos of wires and other items that need to be restored to their original state later.

Before you start packing, take photos of wires and other items that are easy to forget how to install later, such as the back of the TV, wireless network modem, etc.

After arriving at the new home, you only need to You can reinstall it just by referring to the photo, which is a huge time saver.

8. Pack clothing and shoes.

When packing clothes, you don’t need to take off the hangers, and you don’t need to fold them very carefully. You just need to put them into large cardboard boxes.

Because when you arrive at your new home, you need to organize it carefully before putting it in the wardrobe.

Many people like to hoard shoe boxes, which makes moving inconvenient because shoe boxes take up space and are fragmented and difficult to handle.

Therefore, Sister Tiao suggests that it is best not to bring shoe boxes when moving, but to put shoes into large cardboard boxes.

For sharp high heels, the roots should be wrapped with foam pads and then placed in the 69 position to save space.

9. Use small boxes for books

Do not use large cardboard boxes to pack books. They cannot be moved at all, and the movers will scold you.

10. Packing of fragile items.

Stack pots and pans in the kitchen and cups at home from large to small, in groups of four to five, and fill them with newspapers, foam, soft cloth or old clothes.

Cups that cannot be stacked should be wrapped in newspapers or soft cloth.

When packing, lay a soft cloth on the bottom of the box before packing.

Wrap sharp items such as kitchen knives and scissors in corrugated paper or bubble pads, and tie them tightly with tape so that the handles are exposed for easy unpacking after arriving at the new home.

Do not leave any gaps inside the box when packing, because if there are gaps, the items will be easy to move inside the box and will be more likely to be damaged.

After sealing the box, write "Fragile" on it.

All unsealed bottles and jars such as oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, dish soap, and hand soap in the kitchen should be inspected and re-tightened.

Then wrap the mouth of the bottle tightly with plastic wrap to prevent the liquid in the bottle from spilling out.

When packing, the bottle mouth should be facing up, and "Fragile" and "Do Not Invert" signs should be written on the outside after packing.

11. If certain items are no longer needed or furniture will not be moved, mark them.

Avoid the mover being quick and loading the truck directly.

You can use A4 paper to write "DO NOT MOVE" in big letters and stick it on the furniture.

Looking forward to it, looking forward to it, finally the day of moving has arrived!

1. Carry valuables with you or put them in the trunk of a private car.

Carry your valuables with you and transport your pet in a private car.

Such as keys, wallets, securities, bank cards, precious metals, jewelry, commemorative coins, etc. to prevent loss and trouble.

2. Just roll up the bedding sheets.

If the mattress is afraid of getting dirty, you can wrap it in a large piece of kraft paper or plastic wrap.

Fold items such as quilts and pillows and place them in Oxford bags, or wrap them directly in old sheets.

3. Small parts are particularly easy to lose, so be careful to keep them well.

If you need a moving company to dismantle furniture, be sure to put the screws of the furniture or appliances in the same small bag and mark it on the bag.

The power cords and sockets of household appliances such as refrigerators, televisions, computers, etc. are packed in a small carton and labeled to prevent the power cord from being found after transportation.

4. Division of labor among family members.

For example, a person drives to the new house first (cleaning with the children, putting some items, including the pet cat, water, food, and cat litter box, in a small room or balcony and closing the door).

Another person was responsible for watching the movers move things in the old home.

Including handing over the house to the landlord, checking water and electricity bills, refunding the deposit and other follow-up procedures.

Give the contact numbers of both people to the moving company.

5. Final confirmation and close the door.

Turn off the water? Turn off the power switch? Close and lock doors and windows?

Walk around the room a couple more times to make sure you don’t leave anything important behind.

Because there are labels on the boxes, it is best to ask a mover to place the items in different locations according to categories when you arrive at your new home.

Put the kitchen items together, the books together, the children’s toys together, and the clothes together, making it easy to restore and organize.

We can stand in the living room and direct the movers to determine where each piece of furniture should be placed.

Decide where to put the furniture at the first time. Once the mover leaves, it will be very difficult for us to move it ourselves.

Now, you can finally treat your friends to your new home to warm up the pot!

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