Moving Tips

**HisDaisy** · 08-22-2008, 06:06 PM

It seems like people at FV are always on the move. What are some of your moving tips?

Mine is about packing paper. Newspapers and printing houses will often sell the public end rolls of newsprint. This the paper that they use to print the newspaper. It makes great packing paper and is the same stuff they sell at the stores, but much cheaper. Our local paper sells it for $0.75 a pound and store sells 3-5 pounds of paper for $8-10.
The end rolls can also be used to cover tables for an event or for children to color on.

Any one have any other tips?

**madhen** · 08-22-2008, 07:32 PM

The best tip I can give is "DON'T"

I have moved approx five times, twice with a moving company and three times on my own. It is funny how, after you have everything packed up and the house is empty, you can stand there and remember all the potential you saw in it when you first moved in.

Let's see: My tip would be to wear sensible shoes. I had one move where a friend decided to wear thongs. Let's just say it took a while for his big toenail to grow back.

**janis362529** · 08-25-2008, 10:33 PM

Do Not Move. Says I after each move for a grand total of 10 times.

Free newspapers from local convience store at closeing. Generally I go in around 5 and ask if I can pick them up later once they take the front section. Sure enough between 9 and 11 I end up with tons of papers.

Free boxes. Go to local business that use boxes and ask for them normally they will say the dumpster in the back. Hehe. Plumbing companies, liquer stores, ect just not grocery stores or pharmacies

use clothes to wrap break ables. So far my socks and shirts have made great buffers and nothing broken yet

schedule electric, mail, cable, internet to start the day you move in. But to do that you need to contact the company a month or 2 before hand

Stock up on beer and order pizza. Its amazing what people will do for free beer and pizza

**Greebo** · 08-26-2008, 06:06 AM

If you're going to do it yourself, and its a local move, don't call U-Haul. They'll bump you in a second for a long distance, high price trip, even if you have a confirmation number. Pay extra for Budget or Ryder, you'll at least get the truck you were promised.

*@*!(#&^% U-Haul still steamed at them for leaving me high and dry when half my family was at my house ready to load boxes...

**Clutterbug Jen** · 08-26-2008, 09:09 AM

I'm gonna be moving - not this weekend but the next one after that but guess my tips would be different than most are.

My biggest one is to get the biggest grocery cart they have downstairs and use that.

I'm moving from the 7th floor down to the 2nd floor so thankfully it'll be cheap for me to move.

I live in a hi-rise building and on the 1st floor, there's a little place out of site that they keep a few shopping carts for residents to use for bringing groceries up and for moving things.

Makes things much easier especially since there's many elderly people who live in the building.

One tip that would apply to anyone moving?

Don't wait till the last minute to start getting things done!

Also, I've been packing and then cleaning as I go so when I'm actually ready to move - 90% of the cleaning for this apartment will be done.