Corrine Mckoan
4 min readNov 12, 2015

10 Unique moving tips

This article will help you organize yourself during a hasty moving to another country, city or state.

Whenever you have to move, you have to take care of many things at once, like packing properly, transporting and then, unpacking all the equipment with proper placement. If a single step is not properly performed, you will lose precious bucks and time.

  1. Packing important stuff in a handbag

Things like mobiles, tablet, watches or a lunch box. Reason is, you will be tired and will not be able to unpack all the things in the start, having most essential in a handbag will allow you to access them without unpacking anything.

2. Need first Items in a plastic bag

Always pack your essential that you have to use daily, screwdrivers or hammers in a plastic bag and mark it with a color. As you will need that first hand at the time of unpacking. Also, when you will move into a new apartment, and you have to offer lunch or dinner to the mover company or your friends (a good gesture and provide energy that is required for unpacking. so pack it too). Best thing is to buy burgers or any other fast food.

3. Saving the bubble wraps

Bubble wraps has a strong tendency against breaking. But they will cost you. Most of the home have blankets, towels and stuff. You can use those wearables to a useful purpose of fragile materials.

4. You can also use your socks

Socks can hold things like watches, mobiles, jewelry and many other small materials. On average every home has 30 to 40 socks, most of the times, it is woolve and can help you in saving allot packing boxes.

5. Add the room address too to the boxes

Before moving into a new space, first make a mental map of placement of each and everything. When packing and numbering the boxes, try to put names of the items and room names. If possible try to put the stacking arrangement number on those boxes too. It will help allot, while unpacking. Survey by amanandvan247 shows 70% mistakes happened due bad planning of the managers.

6. Prior visit to your new home

Most of the times, when a renter left a place, the kitchen and bathroom are dirty and will need cleaning. Doing this, will help you in many ways. Cleaning will be difficult, when you are already shifted. And also, if you could paint the home first, before moving-in will save allot of time and effort.

7. Use of Cotton for your cosmetics

If there is a cotton piece in the cosmetic box, will reduce the probability of breakage by 10 fold and movers could easily handle them. And also cotton is best for hard drive and placing at the back of fridge and ovens.

8. Use of Saran Wrap for in-use Shampoos and soaps

Every home have open bottles of lotions, shampoos and soaps. Saving them would be easy, if you could useful saran packing for these items. Saran packing is also good for open bottles of cooking oil and other liquids.