If you are reading this blog, then there’s a fair chance that you have had an offer accepted on your house and have plans to move.
It may be into your forever home, a stop-gap renter, a down-size, closer to that school…the list is endless. Whatever type of home you’re moving into, the potential stress of moving home can be incredibly daunting and off putting for everyone involved.
How to cope with the stress of moving house?
Everyone deals with stressful situations differently, there is no one size fits all when it comes to managing the stress of moving house. However, we have some helpful tips for trying to work through the stress in a positive and healthy way:
- Create a timeline once you have a definite date for moving.
- Use a helpful moving checklist to help keep track of items you need to plan for, pack or organise once you’ve moved
- Utilise quality removal services, like ours, to help make the most of your time and have one less thing to worry about
- Create an essentials box, with day-to-day essentials and important documents that you will need quick access to when you have just moved home
- Dedicate some time to decluttering your home before you pack to minimise stressful packing
- Be patient with yourself. Moving home is a big event and you’re bound to forget something or make mistakes. Don’t be afraid to ask for help and set realistic expectations for each stage of the moving process.
Put your trust in the professionals
We all know there’s a lot to sort out when you move home and it’s an expensive thing to do, so it’s understandable that people look for any opportunities to save money. You start to wonder – is everything I’m paying for really worth it?
In theory, you probably could have applied for your mortgage yourself – but you wanted the assurances that it would be carried out by a professional who provides a service that is tailored to your needs.
You could have got your builder mate to do your survey on the cheap, but you didn’t because you wanted a professional that could insure their services and make sure that nothing gets missed.
You could have used a faceless online estate agent that was half the cost of a local one, but you didn’t because you wanted to know who you were dealing with, have a trusting relationship and be able to call in to their office if needed.
So why oh why would you get to the final link of your move (arguably one of the most important, too!) and use an uninsured, unprofessional, internet-based ‘removals company’?