Moving home? Need space? Time to get rid!
Moving house can be an exciting time. You are beckoning a new phase of your life with your family and looking forward to new adventures and opportunities. The optimum word here is, of course, “new”. It is a chance to leave the old bugbears and old tired routines behind and immerse yourself in a vibrant new life. Of course you want to take your memories with you and a great deal of your possessions will enable you to imprint your identity on your new home.
But there is another great opportunity for you as you prepare to move your castle, lock stock and barrel to the other side of the world – a chance to get rid of all that useless stuff you never use cluttering up your free space. It’s a bit like getting rid of the old you and it will help you let go of “what was” and take on your new location. As well as that, it can help massively with storage and removals costs during the moving process.
So here’s a few tips to be a little ruthless with all that clutter and get things moving:
- Old technology – The digital world moves so fast nowadays the computer is probably out of date before you have left the shop. So often we are left with old models or old gadgets which we have even forgotten how to use. Wipe the memories and hard disks and send them to a charity or send them for recycling.
- Foods and spices – most foods will not survive the move and you are going to think fresh. So go on, be ruthless throw it out – but be sure you factor in a time when you can acquire food for your first meals and tea for the move itself.
- Ornaments – Now’s the time to throw out that really ugly stuff you have never liked from your in-laws. The stuff that just kind of sits there and gathers dust. Your new home is about new themes – so get rid.
- Paperwork – do you really need those old receipts, electric bills, water bills and guarantees for gadgets you never use anymore? Now’s the time to go through it all and shred.
- Kitchen and DIY tools – No doubt your kitchen and shed is cluttered with that stuff you keep “just in case you need it” It is so old now it has become faded and rusty through non-use. Be brave – let it go.
- Clothes – The wardrobe is full, but you still don’t have a thing to wear! Be tough and ask yourself what is out of fashion, what doesn’t fit anymore, and what you just don’t like. Steel yourself – say goodbye.
- All that junk! – yes its junk and you know it is. You are likely to get sentimental about it in some way but moving is thinking about logistics. Cost of the removals van and storage, the packing, unpacking and all the hell in-between should bring you back down to earth!
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