When it comes to managing your own personal affairs and getting yourself from A to B, it’s easy to go without your needs and to be fairly ascetic in terms of the resources you use. For instance, many people have to experience traveling in a small group with friends, in using hostels for cheap accommodation while solo traveling, or in sofa surfing in friends’ apartments when between jobs.
Yet the truth is a home move, while a transitory period itself, requires more focus and preparations to get right. This is especially true if you have a family to take care of, responsibilities to manage, and deadlines to meet. Being realistic about your home moving needs is important. For example, it might seem as though you can drive fourteen hours to the new destination on the first day to get it over with, but that not only puts you in harm’s way on the road due to tiredness, it will be unpopular and hard on your family.
Being realistic about your home moving needs, as well as the cost and time involved, can help you avoid underestimating the process. In this guide, we’ll help you avoid doing that:
Rest For The Journey
Driving from place to place for your new home can be an intensive effort and a real physical strain, which is why it’s good to rest up enough for the journey. Limit yourself to a certain number of hours driving each day. Get yourself a lumbar pillow or even a neck rest if you need to nap for twenty minutes at the service station. Make sure you’re well rested the night before, and stop driving ASAP if you think you’re too tired to continue. It will ensure you move forward safely, but also with the most energy possible. Don’t assume you can endure the entire effort without rest, it will catch up with you. This way, you can plan out your journey to meet the long distance moving service more easily, instead of suffering a mad dash to the end point.
Meeting Your Removalist At The Right Time
Removalist services tend to be quite understanding about the needs of each homeowner, they’re the clients they deal with most regularly after all, but they will need you to fulfill your commitments as they plan their own logistics. Making sure to meet them at the new house at the quoted time will help you easily unload your goods, and can prevent any late fees that might otherwise come your way. This is why it’s so important to head out a couple of days in advance once your items are packed, especially when long-distance moving, as this should provide a seamless transition at both ends.
Consider How The Move Might Impact Others
You don’t have to seek permission to move, of course, but it can be good to tell your neighbors, those who deliver subscriptions or milk to your front door, and the community organizers you sometimes work with. Make sure they know your house is no longer the place to reach you. This way, you can avoid any annoying redirected mail, or having to undo the ties of your community from another location. It’s easy to think people will forget you if you go, but to be realistic about it, some social housekeeping is in order.
With this advice, you’re sure to remain realistic about your home moving needs.
