How long did it take you to pack up your house?

themull1

it didnt take us long, before moving day, we packed up most of the kitchen stuff, all the ornaments etc, and put them in boxes in dining room, night before move, brought everything downstairs ie furniture etc and put in dining room, and when the removal men came, they just had to take everything out of one room.

kaylz39

How much does it cost on average to hire a removal firm to come and do the whole lot? i.e. pack into boxes at old house, move and unpack at new house? I live in a 3 bed, so not a huge amount but would be interested to know as I would expect it to save so much stress with having to continue to work full time.

phoebe1989seb

Even if we'd used the removers' packing service, we couldn't have had them unpack at the other end as in our last two moves we've still been living out of boxes over a year later 'cos of renovations......and we started out with 200+ boxes!

For example this house had no plaster on the walls (bare stone ), ugly concrete floors and no electric lights downstairs! The majority of our current house still resembles a building site as we've only 'finished' two rooms - and we moved in during May 2011

All this talk about unpacking and getting on with your lives is making me jealous, lol

missrlr

The first time 4 hours, me and a gang of friends so about 20 hours total, but this was an emergency in and out due to foul break up. Clothes, personal trinkets and few bits of furniture all in a horse wagon and off.

Second time about 3 hours including getting rid of a load of stuff, this was a 2 bed to 2 bed move. The removal service was worth its weight in gold, I packed clothes into suitcases and valuable breakables into boxes they did the rest - disappeared off for breakfast (slight moment of panic then) I got into new house, cleaned the upstairs they came in unpacked and left - 2 hours tops for the whole thing - best £250 I have spent in a long time but I was moving a whole 12 miles!

rosyw

Another vote for using removal peeps packing service , my last move would have been a nightmare without ! I had under 48 hours between exchange and completion, so they started at 7.30am on the day before morning, just left my bed, tv and a chair to load the next day, and everything was in my new place by 3.30pm on moving day :beer: I had a huge amount of stuff that needed careful packing, including my late partners vinyl record collection - around 10,000 records! Worth every penny of the extra cost.

evansmummy

Is it only me who doesn't like the thought of people going through my cupboards and all the junk I've collected over the years?!

Between the two of us we've been doing bits and bats for the past week with another week to go. Add two little ones to entertain and the bank holiday in the mix and I'm starting to panic a bit :rotfl:

Gra76

My wife has been packing boxes of stuff for the eventual move for the last couple of months on and off. Mainly just boxing up DVD's, games and CD's etc. She's storing them at the workshop of my MIL - when I last looked there were more boxes than I could count and I swear I can't tell any difference in the house at all. I think your contents breed behind cupboard doors.

Ivana_Tinkle

It took us four solid (long!) days to pack up our 4-bed house, but an awful lot of that was really tidying - finding bits of kids' toys at the bottom of toyboxes that had been lost for years and putting them back into the right box again, gathering up the random Sticklebricks (sp?) and Lego from every room of the house etc etc... It was actually quite satisfying, even though it took much longer than we'd expected.

I think a packing service is a brilliant idea if you're a lot more organised than us, though!

Ellie83

evansmummy wrote: »

Is it only me who doesn't like the thought of people going through my cupboards and all the junk I've collected over the years?!

Between the two of us we've been doing bits and bats for the past week with another week to go. Add two little ones to entertain and the bank holiday in the mix and I'm starting to panic a bit :rotfl:

Nope, that's mainly why I don't want people packing for me My MIL had offered to pay for a full removal as housewarming present (very nice of her!), but I told her that I would rather do my packing. What I didn't tell her though, is that I would be too ashamed for the removal guys to see my mess Plus it's a great way to declutter

Gra76 wrote: »

My wife has been packing boxes of stuff for the eventual move for the last couple of months on and off. Mainly just boxing up DVD's, games and CD's etc. She's storing them at the workshop of my MIL - when I last looked there were more boxes than I could count and I swear I can't tell any difference in the house at all. I think your contents breed behind cupboard doors.

Yes they DO breed!!!!! :rotfl:

SailorSam

It took months and months.
Last time i moved it was after my Mum had died and i bought her house. So over the time i was trying to sell i'd pack smaller things in a couple of bags/boxes and take them in the car so by the time moving day came there was only the larger items to move on the Saturday morning.