To Keep Or Not To Keep

                                                                                         

Ask any mover and he will tell you that, these days moving is the easiest job on the planet. Well, they have a job well done, as long as they have convinced you that moving is nothing more than tic-tac-toe. Huh, as if!!

If I may put it this way; moving is more like dismantling-transporting-and rebuilding rather than packing-hauling-and unpacking. When you stay in a house for a long time, you build it in to a home—putting pieces of furniture, carpet, etc one by one so that they fit your house. A relocation proposal suddenly makes all those efforts futile.

Apart from the sentimental trauma part; when you actually get down to moving you’ll find that it’s not only a pain in your leg, but also expensive at the same time. Royal combination, as it is; you have to plan your move in such a way that you take only the stuff that you want and dispose the rest. You should think of every possible manner of reducing the cost of your move. As every item counts you have to carefully select the goods you have to move and dispose all the unwanted ones. Disposing unwanted goods will fetch you some amount that can be used as moving budget.

You can dispose your unwanted goods by arranging garage sales, by advertising online, by selling them to stores that deal with buying and selling of second hand goods, by donating them to charity, by exchanging them with that of others, and by sending them to recycling, etc.

Garage sale is an easy means of selling your unwanted furniture by putting on a display in a place where people can come, see and buy. Placing an advertisement in a local newspaper and arranging the sale on a weekend will attract more visitors. Online sale is another means of disposing your unwanted goods. Almost all unwanted goods can be sold online these days. Placing an online advertisement listing the items you are planning to dispose will draw the attention of many. You can get a good market price by selling your items to stores that deal with buying and selling of second hand goods. They too will buy and sell almost all household goods.

So, that was about how and where—obviously, you have to decide the what. There may be several items in your household that you do not use, but you’re attached to them all the same. Like, say, your old Harley that you used to drive when you were 25. You may contemplate renting a self storage unit for these special value items.

Also, if you’re not the type of person who want to scrounge for every penny you can think of donating your old books to public library, schools run by charity organizations or to the reading rooms. You can donate unwanted rugs, clothes etc. to charity organizations such as churches, local communities, volunteer organizations and religious institutions.

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Swayam has been associated with http://www.movers.com for a considerable time now. He takes interest in writing about moving industry topics.

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