Moving Day: The Big Event

So you’re finally moving out. Congratulations! But you’ve decided on using friends or family instead of hiring professional relocation specialists. Good luck! Moving is stressful enough without friends and family in the mix. Many a familial tie has been frayed, not to mention the friendships severed, by the tensions that boil over during the unexpected snags and snafus of a move. And rest assured that they will be there! No move goes perfectly smoothly; even traveling museum exhibitions with multi-million dollar budgets occasionally experience the odd stumbling block.

But friends and family is what you’ve got, and they’re pledged to help through thick and thin: yes, to the bitter end, even if they don’t know it ” though it may just arrive soon enough! So the trick is to utilize their services appropriately, taking special care not to take them for granted while making sure that they feel appreciated and are even somehow compensated, in a sense. (Perhaps a little housewarming party on the day of the move itself would be nice, assuming it doesn’t simply add to your things-to-do list on an already stressful day!)

The best way to avoid any flare-up of tempers or unfortunate misunderstandings is to plan ahead as thoroughly as possible, while keeping things flexible enough to allow for deviations and even possible set-backs. This way, your friendships and family ties don’t become a thing of the past like your old place of residence!

The biggest factor causing stress on Moving Day is going to be the loading and unloading itself. So ensure that you don’t add to the tension by checking to see whether everything’s really been packed up and packed up well. Remember that your friends and family are donating their services, and be considerate of their time and effort by going the extra mile yourself, making certain that everything is ready to go when they arrive. Unless they have been specifically detailed to help you pack, you do not want surprise them with any extra work. Nor do you want them to simply hang around while you take care of what should have already been taken care of!

As an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, so too does it pay more than anything for you to have a water-tight plan of action that is executed more or less like clockwork on Moving Day. This way, people do not feel taken for granted or inconvenienced more than they had bargained, while you save money on professional moving services and actually cement your ties ever-stronger through shared stress.