Moving house

[nannyl]

Ok....
Im sure there was a thread on this a while back... and i really thought i "watched" it.... but its not in my watched list, and i have looked and cant see it....

I am (hopefully) moving house next week (though looks like we will exchange and complete on the same day and at this point solicitors are still only say probably going to happen on the day we want)

Can i have top tips please
OH refuses to get removals and is employing BIL and have him hire a van (he lives right next to van hire place)

We are moving just half a mile down the road
OH has a massive warehouse a mile down the road (half a mile from new house) so things we dont really use (ie loft / cellar / books and files in spare room etc etc) are going to the warehouse at the weekend, so we can then move them back

I have a 9m DD (BF 4 times a day and wont take a bottle) and grandma is having her on moving day. (at this moment in time immobile but i dont know if she will be moving next week)

Our new house is much bigger so some of our new rooms wont even have any furniture etc

All i can think of is to clearly label boxes

I am going to ikea tomorrow to buy loads of ikea bags that i can chuck stuff like bed linen / towels / clothes / toys in

We have been trying to eat the food we have for about a month so will have a relatively empty freezer / cupboards! and i dont have massive stock of tins / loo roll / washing powder etc as havent bought any since the house was sold

label label label
chuck chuck chuck
good luck

If you are leaving your stuff in the warehouse please make sure insurance will cover it. Once knew someone who stored house contents in her DHs business premises in a big old mill in Cheshire between houses and it burned down. She only found at that point that their contents insurance did not cover them.

Rope as many people in to help as you can. Try and pack most of the stuff before the day, but just pile stuff like clothes into bin bags and label. Good luck.

Pretty sure the insurance could be dodgy BUT if it burnt down, then the only thing i would be really really sad to loose would be my birth pool!

nothing of "real value" is going there.... i could live without the old lawn mower (we will need a new one for the new garden) and camping chairs and spare curtains, old CDs we will probably never listen to etc etc
Yes, It would be very VERY annoying if it burnt down, i would be extreamly upset, but wouldnt loose anything of real significance..... (except for OH's buisness which would be a disaster... but then they have buisness insurance for all that)

Every time you even think about putting anything into a box ask yourself if you really need it. If you don't then make sure it gets ebayed / recycled / charity shopped or binned. Don't take anything to your new place that you haven't used for a year. I think your IKEA bags are a good plan but be sure you label them anyway. I am between moves (living in a rented place with nearly all our stuff in boxes in the loft) and the removal guys who brought us here were very impressed with my labels! It's also such a good time to chuck stuff away - seize the moment to do this.

Have a brightly coloured box / bag to keep all your packing materials in ie tape / tape dispenser / black sack / scissors / sticky labels. This really helped us. Have a place where it is always kept and stick to this. buy more tape, bags and marker pens etc than you really believe you will need!

As you are probably exchanging and completing on the same day I would try to get as much of your stuff out of your current house into storage at the weekend as your DH plans ie ASAP so that you can focus on giving your current place a clean while it's fairly empty, and don't move too much stuff into your new place on the day you complete before you have had a chance to go through with the Hoover etc.

Good luck!