You will find a lot of advice on moving from the internet and books solely devoted to moving. But the best thing one can do is to speak to people who have gone through the experience for real. You can use storage services Queens to store some of your valuable belongings for a certain period of time.

The following ten tips taken from people who shared their experience on the internet.

Start your preparations as early as possible. Packing is time consuming and you should start doing it on the first place. It takes more time and is more difficulty than most people thinks. Pack room by room and avoid rushing in the end. In this way you will be more organized. In case you run out of time, you may throw all your stuffs in a huge carton, tape up and load it on the truck.

Make an appraisal of your belongings. Go through your stuffs and choose what you really want to keep and what the items that will come handy are. Do not hold on to any stuff unnecessarily. Moving companies usually, charges on how much your stuff weigh. Only keep items that are personal and necessary. In this way, you can also save a lot of money. Go through everything twice with a week break in between. In this way, you will keep out of getting exhausted.

Mark, tag and label everything. Mark furniture their positions. Tag your pets. Put tags on their collar. In case of birds, put tags on their legs. These tags should include their names, address and a rabies label. Label all the boxes. Label the bigger boxes on all the four sides. Label each box with the room in which it belongs and what contents it holds. Do not overuse the miscellaneous label, be specific. Otherwise, there are high chances that you will be left confused with a dozens of miscellaneous boxes.

Try to stay organized. One way to do this is to pack one room fully at a time, and then move on to the next. Smaller boxes are easily lost or damaged, so put small items in small boxes and put the small boxes in a big box.

Take your medical records, financial documents, college certificates and other important papers with you. Keep them separately as if these are lost or damaged it will be hard to restore.

Professional moving companies do not transport a list f items, and among the list are the items that are most dear to the consumer. They try to reduce the liability as much as possible. Valuable items such as jewelry, artworks and antique pieces should be wrapped and taken with the vehicle that you will be traveling in. You may seek help from expanded moving insurance through third party.

Be creative, do a cool garage sale to get rid of some items and gain extra cash. Get inexpensive plastic bins to store cheap items. This will save you money from buying extra boxes. Also in this way you will save a lot of time. You can consider using a large trash bag to put towels and other soft items. They are much cheaper than moving cartons.