Moving House Hacks & Packing Tips to Move House Fast! Here are some amazing packing hacks that I’ve found and the BIGGEST moving and packing mistakes! Don’t make these huge moving mistakes!
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Thank you very much for this video! I have 26 days! I feel like I need more time, but I have been doing just what you said, one box at a time. I'm not using boxes only because I don't have any furniture. So I'm putting my clothes and shoes in containers with windows. I am hoping this will work better. Also, I decided to move all my small stuff from the kitchen and bathroom before the big move. Just something I'm trying. This way all of the things needed will already be at the new place and accessible. Thank you again!
The zip typing hangers together is a great tip!!
Also, of COURSE wipe down your furniture before you move it, gross!!
We have 3 weeks left and dont know where we are going.
I really want to declutter md not move junk around. So i understand
Awesome help!!! Thank you!❤
What are the organizer totes that you have under your sink? I want to get some for my house
Very helpful. Will be implementing ALL of these tips.
You can also use the Saran Wrap hack on dresser drawers, so you don’t have to empty them out. Yes it will take up space, I guess you have to decide which is more important to you- time or space.
I did a lot of moves overseas with the government. They packed it all, and I miss it now when I move on my own! I bought a lot of various sizes of zip lock bags. Then I went in drawers and put the contents in a zip lock bag. They could then either leave it in the drawer or pack it. But stuff was not going to fall out and land in boxes. Also, think of your underwear, socks etc in drawers. No one is touching your stuff, just the zip lock bag!. And it is a good way to motivate yourself. You will leave the bags in the drawers, until the movers come. And your home is not just so pulled apart. Also easy to do it. Then when you are unpacking, if your silverware went into a box, then easy enough to put the bag of silverware in the drawer, same for all the other rooms. Stuff is put away, you can get rid of empty boxes and then when the dust has settled you can pull the things out of the zip lock bag and arrange them in your drawers. And last but not least, put all your necessary papers etc in a tub and put it in your car.
This video is very useful, to the point and well done. Great presenter of information.
I always wrap plates and breakable stuff in clothes, especially scarfs, jumpers and dresses
I've showed up to help friends move and they've got NOTHING packed. I 100% support the put screws / nuts & bolts in bags, or even tape, and tape it to the bottom of the item. Painter's tape is great to label similar table legs (like coffee tables), so folks can help assemble upon arrival. One friend, I put the contents of her dresser drawers in bags, and then the bags back into the drawer, we moved the dresser to the moving truck, then put the drawers in, so the whole thing wasn't so heavy. Last one – consider hiring a cleaner both as you leave and as you move in. 🙂
Leaving items inside the furniture….every single time we move, my husband tapes our dressers closed and hauls them full of our clothes 😅 they are so heavy, we have really big dressers but him and a friend or his dad will move the dressers full! It makes things pretty quick but its definitely not something everyone can do, especially if you live in a 2 story house.
I'm moving in 35 days. My first step is to go through every room with a trash bag and two sets of boxes – keep and stuff for the yard sale. We're packing up everything I don't love to take to the garage sale at my parents place.
Then after the yard sale we'll use those boxes to pack up the next load of stuff.
I'm excited to actually have weeks until the move, my last 2 moves I've done with under a weeks notice, literally woke up not planning to move and then 3 days later woke up in the new place. 😅
This is a FANTASTIC video. Some of the best advice I have heard……thank you so much for posting this! Especially the advice for packing clothing.
My suggestion for moving is never unpac. It makes the next move super easy.
Another suggestion. Buy banker boxes. They are incredibly sturdy, relatively cheap, and are intended to be stacked and filled to the brim with paper, one of the densest materials
So beautiful and perfect
Really helpful video.. thank you so much 👍
Girl I am moving in 48 hours and have not packed. Need emergency sesh
So helpful
Great tips!
Amazon has the best zip-up moving bags that fold down very flat when not using them. They're made of a similar material to the Ikea blue bags but they zip. Not much padding- but for clothes, bedding, kids' toys, sporting gear, Christmas decorations, etc- they're fantastic and very affordable. Far easier to use than boxes and packing tape.
You have 3 weeks?! I'm 11 days away from moving day LOL
omg, it SUCKS to do a full move in 30 days. I went from a cluttered mess of a 2bdr apt with no real plan to move, to a new 1bdr in 30 days flat. Find the new place, declutter, pack, move, clean, all within 30 days and with limited help. I hope I never have to do that again. Even though we were only going across town, it was the worst move ever. (We were on a month-to-month and the landlord decided not to renew the lease.) That was 5 years ago this month and I'm not sure we've fully unpacked from it… though that's compounded by the fact that we've moved twice more since then, with somewhat more organization and actual professional help.
I will try to socks and the paper plates! Thank U 😊!!
Nah, totes are the best for military families. I have so many and i use them for everything and anything. Camping trips, storage, sorting, prohects with the littles, work potlucks, etc.
good tips. especially 13, cleaning items first. i don't want to clean now or later but especially not later.
I sure did wait until the week before 🙃 we've been so overwhelmed (as I'm listening to the last few minutes of the video hahaha) but I really am feeling much more comfortable and empowered to pack. Thank you so much for this video ❤
thx for sharing !
I save all my bubble wrap from my moves. It always comes in handy for selling, shipping or storing things throughout the year. And btw if you do decide to get rid of your bubble wrap you can recycle it at Walmart. Never throw something in the trash that can be recycled
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I want to thank YOU for your honesty, naturalness and all your real-life advices. I felt so overwhelmed and lost, and thanks to you I believed that I could handle it all easy and calmly, without unnecessary stress and self-blame. I thank you with all my heart 🙂 <3
Anyone else put like all cleaning supplies and sprays together?? 😅😅
So I just got my 90-day notice for moving and this was the first video that came up when I put in the search. How to pack for moving. Honestly, I love all these tips. I have slowly been decluttering the 3 years I've lived in this little house and I'm trying not to take too much stuff into my next place. One thing that helped me in my last move, are those reusable shopping bags they sell at like Marshalls and Ross etc. They are perfect for clothes. I can empty one or two drawers into each bag and then if you decide to keep them they fold up very small. Thank you so much for this short but yet effective video. Don't want to say I'm looking forward to moving but now I know it won't be such a process.😊
UHAUL IS DEFINITELY NOT the cheapest place to get boxes. Walmart is more affordable for new boxes. But you can also get free boxes there when they are doing stock and check the trash bin behind stores like Five Below when they have shipment/ inventory days. Plenty of new boxes.
Labeling boxes- use markers not labels that can fall off. In addition to labeling boxes with contents and room, number the boxes – top and all sides so the number is visible from all sides. As you pack boxes use a notebook and number and list the contents. Much easier to find the right box by number. My ultra organized son told me to this and it made the move and unpacking so much easier.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! We're moving CROSS COUNTRY for the first time ever (Cali Natives) and I'm totally OVERWHELMED! I've moved MANY times but never more than 5-6 miles!! BRILLIANT Advice!!
For the colored-tape legend, you just use painter's tape to post it on the wall beside the front door, so everyone can look at it/read it for themselves as they enter the house with boxes. You also post one in the main room of the house as you enter the home, so people can go in and look at it there if there's someone else behind them at the door, so they don't cause a "traffic jam." It worked really well for my big move to my husband's house after I got married, and saved my butt because I was super tired and ill from the 15-hour long drive in the moving van! Don't knock the colored-tape legend system just because you didn't use it effectively. 🙃
Edit to add: You should still write on the box which room it's for and what's inside because tape can fall off! 😅 That said, I add a small piece to every side of each box except the bottom to minimize the chance of *all* the tape falling off.
Great tips! Thank you for sharing 🙂
Love this ❤