A Positively Moving Experience
How to: Make Unpacking into your New Home Stress-Free!
When the moving truck pulls away it’s a great feeling. Yes, yes it is. It’s especially lovely if you properly packed, labeled and shifted your boxes to the rooms the materials inside will eventually be placed. But, plenty of people don’t unpack with the same verve. This, however, can lead to a lot of stress. Your move will be much more satisfying if you’ve actually completed it. That includes finishing ALL the unpacking! It’s definitely a hearty task, but by not doing it or putting it aside you’ll be worse off.
Where do I start?
Do you remember packing the kitchen? Of course you do. You’d rather have been a banana slug in a tub of salt. Well, here’s round two. But, know when it’s over, the worst is over: Unpack the kitchen first. It’s going to be the most disagreeable, but most important. If you’re the type of person who likes to take breaks, or set aside unpacking for consecutive days, at least you will have some food for the belly during the process. In the meantime you won’t be ordering food in or going out all the time. So you’ll save big.
Time is energy
…and you’re going to need rest after putting away the kitchen goods. Unpacking your bedroom is a necessity. It enables you to sleep. Yeah, that’s important. If you have children or help, they can make progress towards certain areas while you do this part. The most important thing you need to keep in mind is that you’re not rolling out yoga mats to sleep on at the end of the day. So, set up those bedrooms, especially if you require consecutive days to unpack. You don’t want anyone sleeping on the wrong side of the floor.
Moving Forward
Now that you’ve unpacked the bedrooms and the kitchen, you can work on the other spaces. We congratulate you if you have so few items or the energy of a mongoose and can one-swoop the ordeal. If you’re not that mongoose type, take on the next rooms one at a time. It’ll be very hectic if you start unpacking the living room and the bedroom at the same time! You’ll wonder why you have the pouf in your master bathroom and your shampoo hidden in the couch cushions. After the bedrooms, proceed to the bathroom, office space and finally the family room and living room.
Concluding
Organizing the unpacking process isn’t too difficult but executing it is time consuming and strenuous. But, it’s not as difficult if you‘re preparing in advanced. Properly organizing the materials in your boxes, labeling where they go and moving quickly from the kitchen to the bedrooms and finally to the rest of the house will expedite the entire process. We can’t stress how important it is for you to actually finish unpacking.
P.S.
Having an overnight box, emergency box, or camping box is very helpful. Before you pack the house make one of these boxes. Call it what you will. But, it should contain a pot, a pan, toothbrush, other bathroom accouterments, clothes, towels and the rest. It’ll hold you over for a few nights until you’re settled into your new home!
