| Let's face it, moving is hard you move out of a | | | | some or replace others, some furniture you may |
| house that you have called home for years. Even | | | | want to be rid of just for the fact it is too old and |
| though there may be things you don't like about the | | | | you want to start fresh, with new items. One big |
| house it still holds your memories as well as your | | | | thing is stairways, I ran into this problem with my |
| things. Your children may have their notches on the | | | | queen size bed when I moved. The stairways were |
| wall as they grew. It might have the perfect get | | | | too short and narrow for my queen size bed to fit |
| away room, where you can read and just relax. For | | | | down stairs and the same with my daughter's. We |
| whatever reasons you have come to love the old | | | | had to get smaller bed sets for those rooms. |
| house, but your husband got a transfer or your | | | | The next step is packing if you have time room by |
| moving to another house for whatever reason. It's | | | | room is the best way to pack, start with the living |
| new; you won't have the same neighbors, or be in | | | | room and work your way around the house. Also |
| the same area of town. It's new and you will be new | | | | when you are packing up your dishes, to save time |
| to the neighborhood. How can you make the move | | | | and money, use your towels, washcloths, and |
| an easy process? | | | | dishrags to wrap your glass dishes in even potholders |
| Before you even start loading your things plan a | | | | will work to separate bowls and keep them from |
| goodbye dinner for your neighbors and friends, or | | | | breaking. I always leave the bedroom and the |
| have a pot luck block party with your neighbors, for | | | | bathroom last that way if you do have to spend the |
| if you have lived their for a long time and know them | | | | night you have a place to sleep and to take a bath |
| they will want to say goodbye to you. In this way | | | | or shower. The other thing is if you clear the rooms |
| you get to have a great time with everybody one | | | | with the doors leading outside first they you have |
| last time and say goodbye without leaving someone | | | | someplace to put loaded boxes if you hire movers |
| out. | | | | and you don't have to worry about them being in |
| Another idea is to go to your new home and picture | | | | your way or you being in their way. They also know |
| how you will want your new home to look. Maybe | | | | that if you have put the box in that room it is ready |
| not all your furniture will go in the living room that | | | | to be loaded and taken away. The last bit of wisdom |
| your old house held, you will need to separate some | | | | I have for you, is to label all of your boxes with |
| of the pieces that use to go in the living room to the | | | | what is in each box, and which room it belongs in. It |
| family room. You may need to even pull out a | | | | will save you moving boxes over again, after they |
| measuring tape and check out height, length, and balk | | | | are unloaded into your new home. |
| of some of your furniture. You may need to sell | | | | |