Relocating your family can be an incredibly chaotic situation. There’s the moving involved, there’s explaining it to your children and then there are other responsibilities such as changing your address and finding a new job.
With so many things on your mind, it’s normal to feel completely swamped with responsibilities and thus have an incredibly difficult time dealing with it all. Even if you’ve got a solid reason for wanting to move in the first place, you’ll quickly regret it if you don’t plan properly and prevent it from becoming a massive disaster.
Visit Your New Home
Several times, in fact. You’ll want to take pictures of the place and start imagining or drawing up plans on where you’re going to place things like your furniture. The sooner you do this, the better it will be for your entire family. The goal is to make the transition to a new home as smooth and as quickly as possible. You’ll also get to know your neighbours, your kids will get to see the new area and you can even take a little detour around the local area to familiarise yourself with it.
Get Your Packing Supplies
Whether it’s different sizes of boxes, bags or even suitcases, make sure you get a variety of packing materials. You’re also going to need labels, bubble wrap, tape and potentially old newspaper or sugar paper to act as protection for certain valuable and fragile items. This will make the entire removals process easier and there’s less chance you’ll forget or break something.
Do Your Research
Whether it’s research into the movers that you’ll be hiring or the schools your kids will be changing to, make sure you look up all of the relevant information you need. Fail to do this and you’ll quickly regret ever considering a family relocation. On the internet, you’ll find local movers from Bekins Moving Solutions and other well-known reputable businesses that will gladly handle your requests. Just remember to hire these services early so they can guarantee that they’ll be available when you need them.
Letting Your Kids Know
Your kids are going to need to know that you plan to move as early as possible. This is so you can help them find a new school (you may want to try picking together or at least asking your child what they’d like from a new school) and you need to contact their current school to start the process of transferring their information to another school. You’ll also be forcing your kids to say goodbye to their childhood friends and school friends, and this can take a bit of mental preparation.
Declutter Your Home
The less baggage you have, the less you’ll need to worry about packing and unpacking useless things. The more clutter you can get rid of, the easier the move will be. You can get rid of your goods by giving them away to charities or even selling them on auction websites or classified services. The extra bit of money you get can also be put towards the cost of the move for some quick savings.
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