Moving homes ends up making your home look like a warehouse or a store room, to say the least. Doesn’t matter if you’ve hired professional house moving services in Singapore; you can’t avoid the chaos that a move entails.
But now you can ensure that you are at least panicking about a missing pair of shoes in an organised pile. This blog lists ways to organise your ‘barang-barang’ (things) for the move that are ‘sibei’ (extremely) effective.
This guide is all you need to make a seamless transition, even if you’ve hired cheap movers in SG, because of your limited budget. Read on.
Keep Or Discard
Right when you start sorting things for the move, set up boxes labelled as ‘keep’ or ‘donate’. This way, you can check each item and sort them accordingly before packing. All the things you wish to donate can be categorised further for donating to the respective cause.
All the gently used clothes, shoes you don’t wear anymore, old books and stationery can be donated to welfare centres. Also, you can sell your hobby items and antique decor that you don’t use or need anymore for some extra cash.
Declutter By Room
Even if you are a frequent mover or have experience moving, you will still need to declutter for the move. Everything that you don’t use or haven’t been using frequently can be given away or discarded entirely. Decluttering by room makes the process more organised.
Also, the moving process becomes easier and cheaper when you reduce your belongings before the move.
Use Custom Labels
When you hire house moving services in Singapore, they will use labels on the boxes as per their standard packing protocol. You can add additional labels to your boxes. Colour-code the rooms and add coloured stickers on the boxes to indicate the same.
Also, you can use minimal texts, say “Kitchen items” or “book”, on the boxes to have a clear idea about everything you put in a box. This will help keep the move order and help you unpack easily after the move.
Start Sorting Early
If you have a lot to move, you must start decluttering early. You have years’ worth of things to go through. You will spend a whole day or a few just sorting and packing items in just one room. If you have a busy work schedule, hire professionals to help you.
Get/Hire Help
Hiring professional movers will help make the process way faster than doing it on your own. Besides, if you are moving on a budget, get your friends and family to help you with the move for sorting and packing.
Keep A Garbage Bag Handy
When you are categorising your things for the move, you must keep a garbage bag at hand to directly discard the things you don’t need anymore. Before putting each article in the removal pile, be sure that you won’t be using them anymore, and it’s not worth donating.
When you start decluttering early for the move, you can discard these unnecessary things promptly as well. Especially if you are hiring cheap movers in SG for moving your things in just one day, there won’t be any time to do the discarding.
Essentials Box
When you are sorting, also set up an essentials box. Keep all the necessary items that you’ll need right after moving in. Put a change of clothes, cleaning essentials, snacks/drinks, toiletries, linen & towels, and basic hardware tools in the box.
Move this box with you, so that you don’t have to unpack or even open up several boxes just to relax and wind down after a long day. Also, you can add work essentials and electronics to help you get back to your schedule without any delay.
Be Decisive
When you are sorting and packing for the move, be decisive, as it will save you a lot of time. If you can just look at things and decide about what to do with them, whether to keep them or discard them, and have no thoughts whatsoever about reusing them, you are just fine.
But the rest of us, planning a whole DIY project with an old glass jar, have to focus better to finish decluttering on time. If you have a lot of things to go through, this guide can be your manual to go by for the next time you move.
Packing Simultaneously
Lastly, get packing materials, including boxes, wraps and tape, so that when you are sorting, you can directly pack and put away certain things. Start the decluttering from the least important areas, the storage room and the foyer.
These areas will take the least time and have things that you don’t use often. Then move on to kitchen items, dining room/hall, and lastly the bedrooms. This order is the most practical way to go about it.
Takeaways
Lastly, the only useful takeaways would be a plan and a decision to make your next move an organised one. But if you’ve tried everything and are still stuck in an “organised mess”, seek help from reliable house moving services in Singapore,
Also, the moving process is unpredictable despite your super fool-proof planning. So, accept the L’s (losses) when they happen, and handle the situation accordingly. Keep in mind that completing a move safely is the actual achievement.
Go forth! Now you are prepared for the mess that moving home entails.
