Moving Tips With Hershey Pa Movers

Below are some packing and getting ready to move tips you also may find helpful:

For best results, you really should start packing about six to eight weeks before your moving date. If you don't already have your mover picked out from several Hershey PA movers, now is the time to do so.

You'll want to go through your home and make a list of all the things you own. Divvy them up into different lists: 1) Those items you will be taking with you, 2) Those you will sell (yard sale or Craigslist), 3) Those you will donate to Goodwill or another charity, 4) and those you will throw away.

Start notifying your utility companies, your children's schools and physicians offices (you'll want their school and medical records transferred to their new schools and doctors). Six to eight weeks out is also the time you should notify the post office of your address change. You also should contact your banks, credit card companies, and other entities with which you have a relationship or obligations (magazine publishers, Internet companies, etc.).

Five weeks to one month out: If you haven't started packing the little things (photos, books, knick knacks, extra plates, silverware, etc.) that aren't used in your day-to-day life, get started!

Ditto for contacting utility companies, credit card companies, the post office, etc. Five weeks isn't a long time; Hershey PA movers will tell you it's their experience that many homeowners often don't give themselves enough time to do all the things that need to be done when they move. The result? Chaos, and a very stressful move that could have been much less nerve wracking if the homeowner had just planned more carefully and started the process of packing sooner.

Two to three weeks to go: Contact your Hershey PA mover to double check your reservation. If you need to make some changes, make them now. Arrange to have your valuables (and these could be everything from family heirlooms to family pictures) transported to your new home. You should consider moving these items yourself; accidents to happen with Hershey PA movers and even though the moving company will have insurance to cover such loss, do you really want to take the chance that that old photo of your great-grandmother waving as she arrived at Ellis Island from Poland goes missing?

If you're driving your cars a few hundred miles to your new home, get them checked out now. Better to spend a couple hundred dollars today than several hundred in major repairs in a couple weeks due to a breakdown far from home. You not only save yourself money in repairs (and possible overnight hotel stays while the car is being repaired), you also give yourself great peace of mind.