Decluttering Tips for Moving House

Moving house is not an experience for the faint-hearted. Not unless you have a lot of money, assistants, and moving companies that you trust to pack and deliver your belongings. For the rest of the population, it is cardboard boxes, a lot of tape, and scheduled meltdowns.

It is shocking how much stuff is accumulated in the average household, even when you are a conscious consumer. Sometimes things slip through the cracks, and all of a sudden, you have bin bags of papers, a collection of jumpers you haven’t seen in years, and your credit card you misplaced six months ago. 

Stop; don’t pull out your hair – you can do this! Follow these decluttering tips to get you ready for the move in some time.

Take It One Room at a Time

It can be so easy to start somewhere in the house, get distracted, and while you leave one room looking like an excavation site, start in the next.

Try to resist the urge to start in multiple places. Not only will it be much harder to see what you have achieved as you tornado around the house, but it can just make the day-to-day living a lot more difficult. 

Choose a room, the one you use the least, and start there.

Get Donating

Did you know that in 2021, 14 million tons of waste was sent to landfill? So many things get chucked out that could easily be afforded a new lease of life, and you can offer this while helping charities of your choice support their cause. Yes, it takes a little bit of research to see where and what businesses are accepting donations, but everyone benefits from this in the long run. Plus, it might be just as much effort to take stuff to the tip as it would be a donation center! 

Before you ransack the house of all your belongings, but not before you spruce it up, Choose a well-known and trusted estate agency for house valuations in preparation and get people looking around your property. You want people to see the potential of a home.

Check Expiration Dates

There is little point packing a can of beans that expired in 2007 or a cleaning product that looks like it could use some help from itself. Expiry dates are where you can be frivolous when chucking things away without any remorse – apart from the fact you didn’t get to use them.

Just Before You Move, Keep an Essentials Box

The last thing you want to do is to pack away the things you will be needing daily, so you have permission for this one cluttered box. Have a think about what those things are, what you need now, and what you will need at the other end when you arrive at your new living quarters. 

While a toothbrush and towel might be a given, you should also think about things such as toilet paper and tea bags.

Frances Bopp