Professional packers

Tokmon

Redwino222 said:

I did a purge before I put the house on the market so thought I had a head start! I live alone and have no idea how I have so much crap!  Twenty years worth of clothes - so much bedlinen - papers - books - bags and bags of old cables.  

I suppose if a packer came in and threw it all in boxes I would just have to sift through it all in the new house.  So it’s best I work though it now.  But it is hard going.  I really underestimated how much !!!!!! you accumulate- I need to be more ruthless and Chuck more out 

I'm going to disagree with most on here and say i would never a packing service because when I'm moving i want to sort everything out beforehand and get rid of anything i don't need instead of bringing all the excess stuff to the new house which seems pointless to me. Your going to have to sort it anyway so it's better to sort it now before you move so there is less stuff to move and it will be easier and quicker to unpack and set everything up in the new house. 

Scotbot

purplebutterfly said:

Scotbot said:

On a side note don't you find it inconvenient to get out the shower and go downstairs soaking wet for a new bottle of shampoo? There are some clever storage solutions you may want to check out...

Currently in a 3 bed maisonette and the dining room is next door to the bathroom. It's just a case of making sure there is a new bottle put in the shower before the old one runs out! 

Also, it is absolutely my fault that I need a whole separate storage area as I could probably set up shop with the amount of toiletries I have.  

Used to keep spare toiletries in airing cupboard until one day went into bathroom, stripped off, noticed needed supplies so went and rummaged in bottom of airing cupboard.  Got somewhat of a shock when hound decides to sniff places he shouldn't ! Now have dinky little unit that looks like cupboard but has back cut out so it fits under sink 

Scotbot

Tokmon said:

Redwino222 said:

I did a purge before I put the house on the market so thought I had a head start! I live alone and have no idea how I have so much crap!  Twenty years worth of clothes - so much bedlinen - papers - books - bags and bags of old cables.  

I suppose if a packer came in and threw it all in boxes I would just have to sift through it all in the new house.  So it’s best I work though it now.  But it is hard going.  I really underestimated how much !!!!!! you accumulate- I need to be more ruthless and Chuck more out 

I'm going to disagree with most on here and say i would never a packing service because when I'm moving i want to sort everything out beforehand and get rid of anything i don't need instead of bringing all the excess stuff to the new house which seems pointless to me. Your going to have to sort it anyway so it's better to sort it now before you move so there is less stuff to move and it will be easier and quicker to unpack and set everything up in the new house. 

You can always sort when you unpack and you can do it at your leisure.

Tokmon

Scotbot said:

Tokmon said:

Redwino222 said:

I did a purge before I put the house on the market so thought I had a head start! I live alone and have no idea how I have so much crap!  Twenty years worth of clothes - so much bedlinen - papers - books - bags and bags of old cables.  

I suppose if a packer came in and threw it all in boxes I would just have to sift through it all in the new house.  So it’s best I work though it now.  But it is hard going.  I really underestimated how much !!!!!! you accumulate- I need to be more ruthless and Chuck more out 

I'm going to disagree with most on here and say i would never a packing service because when I'm moving i want to sort everything out beforehand and get rid of anything i don't need instead of bringing all the excess stuff to the new house which seems pointless to me. Your going to have to sort it anyway so it's better to sort it now before you move so there is less stuff to move and it will be easier and quicker to unpack and set everything up in the new house. 

You can always sort when you unpack and you can do it at your leisure.

But then your just paying people to pack things you don't want and transport them to your new house which is obviously a waste.

If you spend a week in your old home sorting and packing then you will have an easier life when you get to your new home because you know exactly what you have and can unpack without sorting and you don't have to pay for a packing service.

If you pay for a packing service then you still have all the sorting time when you unpack but your just doing it at your new house instead of your old house as you unpack. 

Personally i prefer to do the sorting at my old house in the week before i move and then rent a large van and load everything non essential in there the day before i move. On the morning i just need to put a few things into the van and away i go to the new house and when i get there it's easier to unpack because i have already sorted it. 
It's much cheaper than paying for removals or packing and much easier to unpack in the new home.

pinkteapot

Tokmon said:

Redwino222 said:

I did a purge before I put the house on the market so thought I had a head start! I live alone and have no idea how I have so much crap!  Twenty years worth of clothes - so much bedlinen - papers - books - bags and bags of old cables.  

I suppose if a packer came in and threw it all in boxes I would just have to sift through it all in the new house.  So it’s best I work though it now.  But it is hard going.  I really underestimated how much !!!!!! you accumulate- I need to be more ruthless and Chuck more out 

I'm going to disagree with most on here and say i would never a packing service because when I'm moving i want to sort everything out beforehand and get rid of anything i don't need instead of bringing all the excess stuff to the new house which seems pointless to me. Your going to have to sort it anyway so it's better to sort it now before you move so there is less stuff to move and it will be easier and quicker to unpack and set everything up in the new house. 

I always use the packers but I still sort beforehand. Sorting is WAYYYY quicker than packing. Plus, once you start packing, you need to have physical space for an ever-increasing mountain of packed boxes. Stuff takes up so much more space when packed than when put away!

So, yeah, I go round and sort, do boot sales and take car-loads to charity shops. Facebook-sell any furniture that won't fit at the new place. All of that. Then the packers come and pack what's actually going to be moved.

One other tip whether you use the packing service or not - which the movers WILL thank you for - space-plan where the furniture is going at the new place, so when the movers bring something in you can point straight to where it's going. They always comment that I'm really organised and they love me so I'm guessing people don't do this? And dither and have them move things around? I also blu-tack pieces of paper to the doors at the new place to label "Bedroom 1", "Bedroom 2" etc. Then I just stand by the front door as they unload and when they tell me what a box is, I tell what room to put it in and they can find the room easily.

pinkteapot

Tokmon said:

But then your just paying people to pack things you don't want and transport them to your new house which is obviously a waste.

If you spend a week in your old home sorting and packing then you will have an easier life when you get to your new home because you know exactly what you have and can unpack without sorting and you don't have to pay for a packing service.

If you pay for a packing service then you still have all the sorting time when you unpack but your just doing it at your new house instead of your old house as you unpack. 

Personally i prefer to do the sorting at my old house in the week before i move and then rent a large van and load everything non essential in there the day before i move. On the morning i just need to put a few things into the van and away i go to the new house and when i get there it's easier to unpack because i have already sorted it. 
It's much cheaper than paying for removals or packing and much easier to unpack in the new home.

That totally makes sense for smaller moves (and having the van for a week avoids the issue of having to store packed boxes). My last three moves (I think) have been out of 4-5 bed houses where it would be physically impossible to fit everything into a van I could rent (and legally drive). Our recent moves have been either one 18 tonne truck or two to three 7.5 tonners. One of those moves was mid-chain so we had to do the move in one trip - no option to go back and forth between the houses. And one was long-distance (300 miles), so didn't want to do multiple trips!

Sotts

Going by OPs posts, i doubt he will sort at the other end.   So sort and declutter first, then get the packers in.

Redwino222

I have to confess you are right😊.

I have taken ten bags to the recycling centre!!  Good start 

Sotts

Redwino222 said:

I have to confess you are right😊.

I have taken ten bags to the recycling centre!!  Good start 

Well done 

purplebutterfly

See if you have a local Buy Nothing Project group on FB. 

  Anything that I'm not sending to the charity shop (electricals, half empty tins of paint, nana's box of about a million buttons) I am giving away for free and people want EVERYTHING.   It's also a lovely way to help the local community and be a bit more eco-friendly than just binning stuff