Packing up a house - your tips please?

[Tillymintsmama]

My house sale is at enquiries and draft contracts stage and altho I feel like I'm jinxing/pre-empting things I just have got to do something so I've started decluttering and packing.

I have just become aware of what mammoth task this is!

I have so many silly q's - will I need to fully empty fridge/freezer (if so I can start to eat the stuff in it from now....), do I have to take clothes out of wardrobes and chests of drawers? If stuff needs dismantling to get down the stairs, like my bed, do the removers do it on the day?

I feel like I need a system but at the moment I am using scattergun approach! Would appreciate any tips.

I would always get packers. As well as being super fast, our packers dismantled beds for us and then rebuilt them in the new house. No need for us to try and do it. We had no damages and everything was clearly labelled by room.

If it's 500 quid extra for packers I just couldn't afford that. Will get quoted tho.

I've decluttered and tipped 6 big bin bags today tho so that's something!!!

Packers are cheaper if you move on an unusual day. Moved on Tuesday in 2016 so packing on the Monday four bed house to three bed packers £196 extra, literally cost as they did not have other work.

Professional packers (if they do a good job) are the work of the Gods. Hand them your key. Leave. Go and enjoy a leisurely breakfast. Come back a couple of hours later and behold the glory.

Haha sounds like i should start a justgiving page to fund packers