Everyone agrees that moving isn’t easy. Studies say moving is one of the hardest things we have to go through in life. And while some people seem to take it in stride and even shine at relocating, I’ve talked to more than a few people who seem to have barely survived a move.
Moving house is a modern day form of torture. If it was any worse, it could be included in the Geneva Convention. Okay. Perhaps that was a slight embellishment. However, I think it’s fair to say that moving is incredibly stressful, leaving many people clawing at their hair in anxiety and frustration.
Moving from one home to another can sometimes be such a sophisticated exercise that you feel like you need a degree in Supply Chain Management to pull it off.
The garage is the one room in your home most likely to become stuffed with clutter. This is a room where “out of sight, out of mind” can become a major problem. Since most of us spend less time in the garage relative to the rest of the home, it’s easy to let them deteriorate into unorganized, cluttered messes.
Moving can be overwhelming if you try to do it alone – it’s a task which requires more than one set of hands. That’s what friends are for, right? But even if your friends gladly offer to help, you still need to follow a few rules of thumb to ensure that your friends remain your friends, even after moving day.
When you are moving there are a lot of security concerns to deal with. While in the transportation process, it’s easy enough to lose your possessions, there is also the concern of theft.
Millennials and Gen Xers, currently the two largest generations of homebuyers, are less interested in accumulating stuff – and storing it “just in case”— than their Baby Boomer counterparts. Today’s homebuyers hate clutter. They want their things accessible but out of sight in efficient storage spaces – not six boxes deep and difficult to find in a dark attic.
Even coming out of the hottest summer on record, patio furniture pieces have to come inside sometime. You Move Me has got the skinny on best practices that will help you keep your furniture looking clean and shiny when you take it out next season.
You Move Me Milwaukee’s Todd Yergens recently helped FOX 6 reporter Brian Kramp pack for his upcoming move.
This April 22 we can observe Earth Day – which you’d think would be a bigger deal, Earth being where we live and all. Luckily, we can use this day to think a little more about this awesome rock spinning around in space with a bunch of stuff all over it. The impact we have on Earth is getting worse by the day, and it’s not going to be easy to stop the damage people have done so far. But you can do your part – and we’re here to help in the form of a short list of ways that you can keep your own move guilt-free.
