5 (More) Moving Tips to Make Life Easier
I've decided that no matter how organized you are, moving is a pain in the butt. Still, planning and organization goes a long way to making the move easier. As a follow up to Top 10 Tips for Packing Early for a Move here are five more tips I found helpful. 1. Take notes. Alphabetizing makes me happy, but I knew that as I packed up my CDs, that ABC-order I so love would get a little mixed up in the boxes. To solve this problem, I used paper placeholders to mark the beginnings and ends of shelves within the box. If I opened a random box, all I had to do was look at the first placeholder to tell me where to shelve that stack of CDs. "Shelf 4 begins with Jet," for example. 2. Take pictures. Books are one thing I don't alphabetize. I arrange books by genre and, of course, group books by the same author. Having a picture of my bookshelf before I packed up my books made all the difference. All I had to do was pull it up on the computer and I could glance i...