There are web sites all over the Internet that offer a moving checklist for planning your move (Starting 12 months in advance?) I believe that although these moving checklists are trying to be helpful, for most people attempting to execute a 12 month moving plan can lead to more stress than not having one at all!

I don’t know about you, but I have no idea what I will have for lunch tomorrow, or what gift to buy for my nephew’s birthday next week let alone planning with a move checklist 12 months in advance!

Don't get overwhelmed by your moving checklist!

My question is, are most people THAT likely to start planning a move, as much as a year in advance, like a wedding?

Heck, even most weddings aren’t planned until a few months ahead of time. I got a kick out of the many websites of either moving companies, or the businesses that sell moving boxes, and how some of them offer a moving checklist of things to do, starting 1 year or more before your actual moving date.

Remember in high school, when they gave us an assignment, or a special project, and they gave us three or four weeks to do it? Most people started it the Friday evening before the Monday morning when it was due. NOW all of those people are adults, and I am pretty sure that they are not planning on buying moving boxes and forwarding magazine subscriptions many months in advance. It make look good on paper, but for most people who have busy careers, families and stressful lives, it simple isn’t reasonable or possible.

Besides, you have the many people who suddenly get a job promotion, or they find a great new job, and they are told or they decide that they have to move, and they only have a week or two or three. So, for those people, the whole 12 month – 6 month – 3 month time-line/ relocation checklist won’t work! Sorry!

Don’t get me wrong. There are many moving checklists and helpful information that are helpful to use. However, I believe that the checklists that start 12 months before a move can lead to more stress than using one at all!

A good piece of advice is don’t try and over-complicate moving preparations. This will decrease your moving stress right away. Yes there is a lot to do, but it is not complicated; just a lot of hard work. RELAX!

Instead, what will work is that they can order some moving boxes or a moving kit, have it delivered to their door within a few days, while they make a few other arrangements, such as pin-pointing a moving day and then hiring some movers…(the only way to fly!) Then when the moving kit arrives, you can start packing away your valuables into nice, sturdy boxes that won’t topple over, and will cut down on the man hours needed for your move. (Remember you’re paying the movers for their time!)

If you want a move checklist that is simplified, it goes like this:

#1: Order moving boxes online at Moving Box Delivery; with enough time that you can pack your moving boxes.

#2: Call a moving company that friends have recommended and pick a date (don’t forget that summer gets booked faster than the winter time does)

#3: Start packing when the moving kit or boxes arrive

#4: Change all your addresses, (the most time consuming part) forward your mail, magazines, and cancel your newspaper home delivery

A Helpful Resource of all the addresses that need to be changed when moving: change address

#5: Let your friends know you decided NOT to punish them by renting a truck and begging them to help you do the back-breaking work of moving

#6: Be ready by moving day, and let the movers do their job

#7: Have fun in your new home

#8: Take a nice bubble bath and celebrate that it all over!

If you need buy moving boxes and moving supplies for your move, shop at our store.

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Order Moving Boxes Like a Pizza!
When you need to go to the store for certain things, you need to go to the store. Maybe you need a tuxedo or a prom dress for your teenage son or daughter, and it is hard to buy one online, so naturally you will want to go to a formal shop. When you want to get some freshly sliced cold cuts or deli meats, you more or less have to visit a deli or a deli counter inside a grocery store.

When you are going to move, whether across town or even across the country, you want to box up your personal belongings in nice, clean, sturdy, but cheap moving boxes, but they don’t have to be Home Depot moving boxes, that you wasted gas to dive across town to get!

“Sometimes, people may have to drive to another county, 30 to 45 minutes, each way, just to get those Home Depot moving boxes, which are nothing more than corrugated cardboard boxes that you had to haul home yourself!”

I am simply using Home Depot’s easily recognizable name as an example, because it can be any big box company that sells moving boxes like Office Max, Office Depot, Costco, Walmart, Lowes, Dixieline…et cetera! The point is, that you can get a Moving Kit, with a specific amount of moving boxes, just like the Home Depot moving boxes, plus some tape, kitchen packing paper and packing foam,  and these items can all be delivered to your front door, weeks or days before the move. Moving Box Delivery offers 1-5 day delivery for all packing supplies; with most of the U.S. falling in the three day range.

If you buy moving boxes online, not only will you NOT have to haul them from the store to your door, but you won’t have to waste more gas going to get more Home Depot moving boxes because you miscalculated and were off by three!

So, when you are ready to get packing, get online and order the supplies you need!  All this talk of pizza is making me hungry!

Have fun with the new home and good luck!

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Are you moving to a new city, a new state, or a new country? If you are, I know that it can be scary. So the question comes, how to make new friends AFTER YOUR UNPACK YOUR MOVING BOXES?

#1: Get a job ASAP and make friends at work.
Even if you are looking for a job as a training manager for example, consider taking a job as a waiter, or a construction worker until you find a long term job. This helps ensure that you have money coming in, it makes you less likely to jump at any opportunity that comes a long, and it helps you make new friends quickly.

#2: Read the Book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway!
Moving can be scary. As you are unpacking your moving boxes, you may ask yourself…”what did I do.” If you find yourself in this situation ……well this book will help you understand your fear and decrease it drastically. This is an amazing book for anyone who is moving and unpacking their moving boxes to a new life so to speak. Once you read this book, you will have a lot more confidence to meet new people and make new friends.

#3: Get Involved with Meetup.com
This is an amazing site that enables you to put in ANY interest you have into the database and then be able to select from a variety of groups in the city you live in. You can automatically find other people who share the same interests. For example, type in dogs and you will find dozens of groups in your city of other people who like to walk dogs.
#4: Start Doing What You Love To Do Before You Know a Soul:
If you love tennis, then join a tennis club. If you love to write………go write in coffee shops and you will eventually meet other people.  Whatever you do, don’t get involved in ANY activity thinking that is a good way to meet people.

#5: Enjoy Your Life, Even if You Don’t Know a Soul.
Know that in time you will make new friends. In the meantime, enjoy the fact that you have some more time to get involved with your interests that you may not be able to once you social schedule fills up.

Happy moving!

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ARGH! Moving. storing, packing, unpacking, ordering moving boxes, changing bills, buying new furniture, getting your old house cleaned up, finding a baby sitter to watch your kids, unpacking, packing, packing some more, and some more…….garage sales…………. Yes, all of it can be STRESSFUL! That is why it is important to find FUN ways to relax and take some stress out while moving.

Help! I need some STRESS RELIEF!

Top 10 ways to help take the stress out of moving, packing moving boxes and getting settled in your new home:

1. Do Yoga or drink heavily.
New research confirms that yoga and drinking will BOTH help you relax in stressful times like moving. See more at  Yoga versus Drinking (A very funny comparison)

2. Laugh and remember, your move will be over soon.

Stop packing your moving boxes for a minute and watch this funny video.

3. Yell at anyone you see. (Just not your mover.)
Watch, it makes you feel better even watching someone else do this!

4. Listen to other people laugh.
When you have already moved 40 moving boxes into your home and want to take a fun break,
then just watch other people laugh. You will forgot all about moving.

5. Get some perspective on your moving day by  watching sharks sing the “jaws song.”
Moving and packing boxes is a lot better than being in the water with JAWS. Don’t forget there are many more stressful things you could
be doing!

6. Watch other people moving with all the challenges that one has.
Your move is PROBABLY going better than this, which you can be happy about.

7. In your new home play a flashlight game with your animals, or just watch other people doing it!
Stop unpacking your boxes. Turn off the lights in your new home and let your dog or cat chase the light of a flashlight!

8. Let your kids put a GIGANTIC smiley face on every moving box you unpack. (This will keep them busy for hours)

9. Take a long bubble bath at the end of the day with extra bubbles.

10. Order take out for the next week and Take a BIG, DEEP breathe! Pretty soon you will be moved into your new home.

Moving Box Delivery hopes that our packing boxes and moving supplies make your moving day LESS stressful and just better all the way around!

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People move a lot! Recycle your moving boxes after you move and we will all benefit.

How many times have you moved in your lifetime? If you include moving around at college, the number is probably even higher.

The average U.S. resident will move a total of 16 times over their lifetime, about once every 5 years! Now that is a lot of moving!

If everyone recycled their moving boxes, then this wouldn’t be an issue. The problem is that everytime a person moves they need moving boxes, and often these moving boxes are thrown away versus recycled.

The average number of moving boxes used is 50. That means on average, each person uses around 800 moving boxes over the course of their life. (Some higher and some lower depending on the size of their home)

If everyone recycled moving boxes after they moved, our landfills would be much cleaner and our planet a lot healthier.  There is nothing wrong with using moving boxes when you are moving. In the past 100 years, people have tried to come up with better solutions and nothing has been as practical or useful in protecting valuables and moving efficiently as cardboard boxes.

If we all re-use and recycle our moving boxes, then we will help our planet healthy as we continue to move from city to city exloring the world.

Contact your local city on how to recycle your boxes in your local city after you move.

Moving time! What to do with all of those cleaning products that you have accumulated over the years?

Professional moving companies are not legally able to move certain cleaning supplies.

Over time, many people accumulate a lot of cleaning supplies. When moving, it is important to know which cleaning supplies you can move and which ones should not be moved.

As a general rule of thumb, do not pack any open cleaning supplies in moving boxes and do not move any cleaning product that could be flammable.

Hazardous Cleaning Products Are Not Legally Able to Be Moved by moving companies

If you are hiring a professional mover, there are certain cleaning items that professional movers are not able to legally pack or move. This is for your protection and for the protection of the movers. Some cleaning products have severe adverse results when being moved, such as the possibility of becoming flammable.

The two most common cleaning products that should not be moved are:

• Anything with ammonia in it
• Liquid bleach in any form
• Any open container of a cleaning product

Ammonia and bleach can be highly flammable which is why they should not be moved. Open cleaning products have the potential to spill into your moving boxes, making a complete mess and potentially damaging valuable items.

Tip #1 to get rid of opened cleaning products:

Unless you can securely seal cleaning products before packing, it is best to donate all partially used cleaning supplies to a charity before moving. Many charities need cleaning products and would appreciate the donation. You can place them in an open box and drive them to the charity.

Tip #2 to get rid of opened cleaning products

Use your partially opened cleaning supplies to clean the home you are moving out of and into before inspection. Many people buy new products for this,versus going through their bathrooms and pulling out the old cleaning supplies.

Buy moving boxes at discounted rates from Moving Box Delivery and make moving easy!

Avoid the “garage moving boxes MESS” of having your movers  place all of your moving boxes in your garage because you didn’t have moving boxes that were labeled. Unpacking boxes from a garage will take 10 times as long then if they are placed in the correct room!

As a tip, be sure you label your moving boxes so your movers know which room to put them in, and never instruct your movers to place all of your moving boxes in your garage.

It will save you so much time on your move if you have your movers place your moving boxes in the room that they will be unpacked in.

Therefore, in order to do this it is essiential to label your moving boxes so the movers know which room to put your moving boxes in.

Otherwise, you will have a PILE of moving boxes to open, and transport to each of the various rooms before you even start unpacking.

Read about a true story of a friend of ours who piled moving boxes in his garage

Interested in making unpacking 100% easier? If so, make sure that you indicate on ALL of your moving boxes which ROOM each one of your moving boxes should be placed in.

Check Off Which Room Moving Boxes Should Be Placed in

It seems like an easy thing to do, but it is something that a lot of people don’t do. I think that perhaps most people intend to, but run out of time due to the hectic nature of moving.

Therefore, it is a good idea to mark each one of your moving boxes right after you seal it. This simple little step will save you hours and hours of time unpacking because the movers will know where your moving boxes should be placed.Labeling moving boxes

The good news is that all of the moving boxes that Moving Box Delivery sells have embedded moving labels on the sides of the boxes. These labels make it EASY to check off which room you want to place your moving boxes in without having to write anything out.

Avoid the craziness, make moving easy and label your moving boxes so your movers are not guessing where to put your stuff.

Have a great move!

Thinking of Moving to a New City? There are WONDERFUL Tools to Help You Research Before You Make Your Decision

Even if you are being transferred to a new city because of your job, there are still so many different possibilities of where to live within that city. Research is something that has the potential to help anyone who is moving.

Learn About an Overview of a City
A good resource to learn an overview about a city is City Data (Be sure to scroll down to the field that lets you put in a city name to research)

Demographics of a City
If you are looking to learn about the demographics of a city, I highly recommend going to City Town Info to research almost any city in the U.S. This site really is amazing. You will be able to find out an overview description of the city including the history, awards it has won, where it is located, demographics of the area, a listing of schools,

Compare Where You Are Living Now Compared to the New City
Sterlings Best Places web site  is filled with helpful city information, one of my favorites  being the ability to compare one city to another. This web site helps you compare where you are currently living, to a place that you are considering moving to.