Creating an inventory of all the items you have at home can be a great way to ease the transfer. This activity will also help you take notes on the things you might want to keep and those you might not. After taking inventory and making your trusted list, it’s good to mark the boxes that carry the items — that way you know the content of each box.

Aside from helping organize before everything is taken out of the old place, it helps you prioritize for the future, making the move into your new home a lot easier. Knowing in which box all the bedding items are can be a blessing when you have been moving boxes from one place to another throughout the entire day. You might not unpack all of it that same night, but you can rest in clean sheets after knowing exactly where they are.

There is nothing more disheartening than arriving at the new place and realizing that your favorite couch is too big to fit in the living room, especially after carrying it three flights of stairs.

Play it safe and measure the big furniture ahead of time. You can go to the new empty place and use the measurements to be certain that the dresser, bed, computer desk, and TV stand will all fit in the room. If it does not, or you are certain that the room is too small to fit it all, then you know that you won’t be taking it all inside. This avoids piling things in to the point that the house looks like an abandoned storage unit. So, what can you do?

It’s not easy to get rid of your precious possessions, particularly when the move is not forever. You could be buying the house of your dreams in the future and want to keep all the things you have been buying with so much effort.

A storage unit when moving can provide you a safe space to keep those few items that did not make it to the new place, but you wish to use them later. If you’re in the Firestone area, Gateway North Storage is your storage solution! Call us to learn more or rent your unit today!