You and I are made of similar dna 🤣🤣🤣. Ive done this 5 times now
I do an overall floor plan.( Take from EA site) and label each room with its new name. But I also do a detailed plan for each room and show position of furniture and where I want them to place boxes ( so they don’t dump in front of cupboards you need to unpack into🤷🏼♀️) . Decide this and off long before move and stash safely.
When you arrive, get the overall plan up in hall, then run round putting each room plan on its door. Pack masking tape for this
before the packers arrive ( usually over the week before), I label EVERY bit of furniture with room it was going into. I make sure I’ve got it’s position on the floor plan for that room.
Then, we’ll in advance of packers, for every cupboard, shelf I attach post its on with the room name it as going into and what the items are ( books, kitchen utensils etc). I ask packers when they arrive, to simply take off post it / masking tape and put onto outside of packed box once they’d packed that cupboard, shelf etc,. So, when it gets to other end , it goes to the right room and I can see what is in each box without having to unpack it.
If I have anything I don’t want them to take I “red tag” it - large red post it, or sheet of red craft paper on item - I tell packers to not touch red tag items. I try , as other posters have said, to move these aside- but sometimes if it’s furniture that staying, curtains etc you can’t do that. Red tag it.
i pack a separate box to go in van last, or in your car, with hygiene wipes for loos at other end and other nasty stuff when you arrive before you can get to your cleaning stuff. And loo roll. And put a label on door in both houses for which loo it’s ok for packers to use. I clear out, clean other bathrooms in advance of packing and effectively sealed door off so I dont need to clean all bathrooms on move day.
i also empty all my kitchen cupboards etc about 3 weeks before the move. Ditch what I don’t need. Then clean them properly. I line the bottom with kitchen towel and put stuff back in. Once packers have packed the room, I simply remove the kitchen paper, bin, , and job done- no rushing to clean everything once packed. A quick vacuum and job done.
have plenty of biscuits, tea, coffee for packers. Put in box as last thing with kettle, milk, sugar, mugs, spoon and some essential plates etc for your arrival nights takeaway- last to load, first off!
prioritise making beds up, and essential curtain hanging when you arrive. Everything else can wait till next day - Even a shower! but you don’t want to be wrestling a duvet when tired, knackered or stressed
oh, ( this could be identifying 😱🤣) make sure you have an emergency number for the estate agents who have the keys to your new house. Seriously. I nearly didn’t get in and had my stuff taken into storage, because agents packed up and went home at noon due to a power cut. Bloody idiots only got the keys at 11am. There was no emergency number, they never called me, weren’t answering office number to me or either solicitor cos they didn’t forward it, or even remember they needed to hand keys over. 5 hours of stress and delays. By 5 pm movers were threatening to just go home with my stuff still on board. Everyone was also bursting for a wee and thirsty 🤷🏼♀️🤣We had to break a plate glass large window to get in - glass everywhere across the floor as it was laminate. bloody nightmare. Packers then walking glass round the house . Never ever move without an emergency mobile number of the estate agents And maybe a hammer and thick gloves 😳. Store your solicitors number in your phone. Store the number of the packer gaffer once they arrive, again we once had removal lorry “ disappear”,for 1 hour once as took a different route and got stuck in traffic