If you’re thinking of moving to a new home, and you want to simplify everything to make sure the move will go smoothly, then you’ll find that there’s a lot you have to do in order to achieve that goal. And while most homeowners will wait until the last minute, you can get the most out of your strategy much faster by thinking ahead and organizing everything in advance.

Useful Tips for Starting Out

The great thing about moving is that you get to practically renew your life and start again with a clean slate. That is precisely how you need to approach simplifying your home before your move as well. Here are a few quick tips from an Arvada moving company that can get you started:

• One of the first things you should do is make an inventory of all your belongings, from the large grandfather clock in your old study, to your kids’ fidget spinners. Everything has to be adequately documented, so you can make sure you won’t misplace anything.
• Next, continue by deciding which items you will absolutely need and which ones you won’t. Splitting up your list like that will help you eliminate the chance of clutter at your new home as well as on the moving van.
• Now that you know all the things you don’t necessarily need right away when you move, pack them up and load them into your car or truck, or ask your movers to help you out if it’s too much. The idea is to rent a storage unit or ask one of your friends to keep them at his/her place, until you get settled into your new home.
• With all your unnecessary belongings gone, you can pack, label and organize all the things you absolutely need, and make sure your moving process will go as smoothly as possible.

Preparing Your Furniture for the Move

Simplifying things before your move should also include making sure that all your furniture can be removed and placed in the moving van in the right order. The best way to do that is to label the larger and heavier pieces to go in first and label any fragile items such as chandeliers and large vases as “fragile” and leaving them for the end, so they can be placed around the larger pieces in such a way that they won’t risk being damaged.

Before the movers get there, make sure to also prepare all the access ways for the larger furniture pieces, and stack all the fragile and smaller pieces in one corner, if possible, so that they can be protected while, for instance, the movers are carrying a large refrigerator that could easily cause a lot of damage, if it were dropped or if someone hit a nearby item by mistake.

Preparing for your move is not that difficult, and you might find all the organizing and labeling quite fun, especially if you are an organized person. Ultimately, all that work will pay off not only in protecting your items from damage and ensuring the move goes smoothly, but also in helping you get everything out of the house in an orderly and simple fashion, without misplacing or forgetting anything of value.