Moving a house or an office is one of the most frazzling, stressful and chaotic experience. With so many things to consider and keep in mind before the move, we often forget to keep it cheap. Moving is not only stressful but also at times hard on the pockets. However, if you plan a budget and stick to it, then you are all set to go!

If you are moving and want to ensure that your moving, as well as packing costs, do not exceed your budget, then here are four easy ways to move on a budget:

1. Smart Packing: When you move, make sure you do it smartly. Avoid extensive costs and help yourself find some free or low-cost cardboard boxes from stores or neighborhood grocery shops. Apart from this, make sure that you pack some smaller and personal valuables on your own, thereby reducing the cost of your moving. Also, when you get help, make sure that you offer clear directions to avoid unnecessary mix-ups.

2. Deep Cleaning: When packing your essentials and valuables, remember to do a deep clean before you begin packing. Declutter and Donate unnecessary items and furniture. You can even sell broken and old furniture at a better price. Take only what you need and discard what you do not. This will not only help you pack your valuables and essentials faster, but will also help you reduce the weight of the things you carry. Another benefit of discarding the things you do not need is that the moving truck will not be cluttered, thereby reducing the chances of damage caused to the objects you move.

3. Hire Professional Help: While moving a house, you may think you do not need help, believe us you will. Find the correct budget removalists in Brisbane or in any other place to make your task simpler. Removers are trained professionals who can handle all kinds of moving challenges and help lessen your burden.

4. Pack your Boxes Efficiently: Make sure that you do not overstuff your boxes. Overstuffing your cardboard boxes will only lead to damages. While packing makes sure that you throw in some padding material inside the box first. Another thing to keep in mind is to make sure that all the moving objects are tightly wrapped and are secure. Additionally, disassemble the things that can be dissembled and pack the parts carefully in your cardboard boxes. Organize your stuff and allot things to various boxes.

With the above-mentioned tips in mind, remember to pack your essentials first. After packing your essentials, find a good company to help you out and move without any hassles.

Moving is really a daunting task that stresses out the individual owing to various time consuming and hectic activities. It is troublesome to pack the entire household within few weeks or days. We have infinite numbers of goods at our home and packing them for new destination actually needs planning and organization. If you will haphazardly and randomly put all the things in the carton, it will mess up the goods and you get all the goods in the broken condition.

To ease out your moving pain, you can simply hire professional packers and movers, who will plan your move in a better way. But, still you are planning to do it yourself then you need to tighten your shoulders and get ready with lot of planning and organization. There are articles and appliances at home that require special treatment while packing. In this blog, we are discussing about the some useful tips to pack the fragile goods like glassware, crockery set and porcelain so that they remain intact during the transportation.

Smart Tips to Pack Fragile Items for Your Next Move

1. Make Use of Small Packing Carton

While packing the precious fragile goods for move, one should separate them into the small cartons. With this approach, these goods will remain as it is and don’t break with the pressure of heavier objects. The bigger carton will be very difficult to carry and goods can get damaged in it.

2. Wrap Every Item Separately

Fragile goods could be any like bulbs to bone china. You need to separately wrap each piece individually as per its size and volume. All the loose items and attachment with them should be separated and wrapped in good quality bubble wrap and the insulating material.

3. Do Not Forget to Tape the Box from the Bottom Surface

As of now, you all the fragile goods are wrapped carefully. Now, before putting them in the carton, one should tape the bottoms from the bottom layer so that it remains reinforced after keeping the goods in it.

4. Stuff The Hollow Space

There must be hollow items at your home like bowls, vases, jars, glasses and many others. While packing these items, you should fill the hollow space with the crumpled paper to prevent damage from the jerks and jumps during the transit process.

5. Label Your Boxes as FRAGILE

It is quite essential to mark your box as FRAGILE so that you movers team or loaders will get to know that the box contain fragile goods. You can also inform your mover’s team about these boxes as they need extra care while loading and unloading.

6. Devote Your Proper Time in Packing

Every know moving is the stressful. One can get frustrated very easily with this chaos and strive hard to pack all the goods speedily. But, when there comes the turn to pack fragile goods, it is advised to take the proper time and adorn your new home with exclusive embellishment.

7. Use Sturdy Packing Cartons

Before start packing your goods, firstly ensure that you have bought good quality and robust packing cartons so that your goods remain safe and secure during the transit process. We better understand the pain one faces while losing their beloved household goods during the transportation. It is advisable to arrange new cartons despite using the old ones arranged from grocery or wine shop.

8. Keep Heaviest Item at the Bottom

You should be vigil while packing your fragile goods. While putting them in the pack cartons, keep the heavy items at the bottom of the box. To make sure that nothing is broken, pack the heaviest and largest items at the lowest of the box.

9. Keep the Cushioning Stuff at Bottom of the Carton

One should make use of soft material like packing paper, tower or styrofoam peanut, should be kept at the bottom of all the packing cartons containing the fragile goods. It will assist you to fortify the box and provide cushioning effect for the household items.

10. Be Cautious While Handling Fragile Goods

Now you have packed all the goods using quality material and techniques. It is the time to lift them for the transportation process. Make your moving team alert before the loading time that these cartons contain Fragile Goods and special care to be given to these items.

With this, you will be able to make your home stress-free and reliable. You can also connect with leading movers and packers, who are proficient in planning your goods movement at the affordable budget. With these professionals, you will relieve your moving stress a lot and you will get the enough time to explore your new destination.

So what are you waiting for? Next time, despite laying your stress on packing and moving, take the expert help.

Where attention goes …. Energy flows. What we give our attention to, we give our energy to. You can physically see this happening by dangling a necklace from your hand and making it move with your mind.

In feng shui, energy is called chi. Chi flows through our homes and through our bodies. And we can focus the chi of our body with our mind. Everything is made of energy and our thoughts are a form of energy that we can shape with our consciousness. “Move it with your mind” is a simple technique that anyone can do. You’ll need a necklace made of any kind of metal and a lightweight pendant on the end. All you have to do is look at the pendant and THINK the way you want it to move and it should start moving that way. You can move it in a circle clockwise or counterclockwise or back and forth. You can move it one way, stop it, and move it another way.

You’re not going to be moving the necklace with your hand, you’re going to move it with your mind so you need to keep your arm as still as possible. Put your elbow on your knee to help keep your arm still. Hold the chain of the necklace with the thumb and forefinger of the hand you write with. And hold the pendant about one inch above the palm of your other hand. Then think the way you want it to move and it will move that way.

And that’s how it works. Where attention goes … energy flows. So what are you giving your energy to?

Notes move on the staff in three ways:

Step

Skip

Repeat

Notes on or above the middle line have down stems.

Notes below the middle line have up stems.

Measuring Intervals

The distance between two notes is called an interval. Another way to say it; the distance from the pitch of one note to the pitch of another.

2nd Interval:

space or space to line.

On the keys a 2nd is like a step: from one key to the next key.

On the staff a 2nd is like a step: from line to

3rd Interval:

On the keys a 3rd is like a skip: from line to line or space to space. One skipped key is a 3rd.

4th Interval:

Two skipped keys is a 4th. On the staff a 4th is either line to space or space to line. On the keys a 4th is a larger skip.

5th Interval:

Three skipped keys is a 5th. On the staff a 5th is either line to line or space to space.

Melodic and Harmonic Intervals:

A melodic interval has single notes, like notes in a melody that are played one at a time. If you sing a note and then another then this is a melodic interval.

A harmonic interval has two notes played together to make harmony in music. If two people each sing a different note at the same time then this is called a harmonic interval.

Now that you know what intervals are why do you suppose we need to learn them?

Learning to recognize intervals, whether by sound, on paper, or an instrument, is extremely helpful for many reasons. Among them are chord building, improvisation, sight singing, composition, understanding and remembering keys and their related accidentals, and figure out music by ear. If you are trying to play a melody that is in your head or on the radio, knowing your intervals eliminates most of the time spent searching for the right notes.

One of the coolest ways to add feeling and expression while playing those piano notes is to observe road map signs or what musicians call Dynamics or dynamic markings.

Basically there are symbols that indicate varying degrees of volume. So we have degrees of loudness or softness.

Music has loud and soft signs called dynamics.

mf means medium loud.

Its Italian name is Mezzo Forte.

f means loud.

Its Italian name is forte.

ff means very loud

Its Italian name is Fortissimo.

fff means very, very loud.

Its Italian name is Fortississimo.

ppp means very, very soft.

Its Italian name is Pianississimo.

pp means very soft.

Its Italian name is Pianissimo.

P means soft.

Its Italian name is Piano.

With this understanding of how notes move while playing quietly or loudly, you will enjoy hearing yourself play with more feeling in addition to technically playing the notes correctly. Have fun!

Plan your move

Planning in any endeavor is crucial and it goes true for the moving of home too and if you could plan it you could be a happy and contented man or woman in your new home keeping your leg up in your favorite chair and reminiscing the day you moved for a long time into the future

Moving is not an easy task and it would drain you of mental and physical strength through the episode and for that you would need to be ready and face it with courage and wisdom too.

The average American is researched to be moving 11 times in his lifetime and that is a lot and also a billion dollar industry which because of some bad eggs is being relegated as a very corrupt and fraudulent industry in the United States.

The Federal Motor Carriers and Safety Administration is bending backwards trying to make this industry safe but we hear very alarming incidents of fraud being perpetrated by some and gullible people are still falling prey.

Planning is very important and it is the desire of everyone to have no untoward thing happening on the day you move from one location to another.

Finding the best moving company

Hence early planning should begin with finding the best moving company which is also like finding a needle in a haystack, because there are a dime a dozen of movers but all of them are not genuine and there could be fraudsters among their midst leaving a bad taste all around which has given this industry a very bad reputation.

You could begin your moving endeavor by making a complete list of all the Things To Do and tabulating them in a folder and keeping a record of all that you have done to execute your moving on the date that you have chosen.

Once you have listed the chores that you may need to accomplish during a specific time period it becomes necessary to ensure that they are followed to the letter and that everything moves to military precision so that you need not tear away your hair when the day comes to do the physical moving.

It is not possible for you to move all your belongings by yourself hence you may need the help of professionals and after finding them getting them to handle the move would be prudent on your part.

Listing what to do

Listing what you need to do long before and ticking off one by one when you complete each one would allow you that window of opportunity to concentrate on the other little chores concerned with the moving.

Informing the school authorities and obtaining the school leaving certificates to enroll your kids in the new school, then going around to the Post Office and informing them in writing your move and the new address where they should redirect your letters are all important chores which you would need to attend to.

Getting all the family medical records transferred to the new area where you would go to live and informing all your friends and others about your new address are all important.

Walking to your bank and informing them and finding out if they do have a branch closer to your new home transferring your accounts over there or closing you accounts should also be done.

Packing fragile and breakables

It is easy if you start packing the fragile and breakables early into cardboard boxes and ensuring that it could stand some rough handling during transit is also important.

Going through the stuff that you have and then deciding what you would need to take with you and what you would need to dispose should be done at least two months before the date of moving.

This would give less hassle of packing and also would rid unnecessary stuff being carried along with you which does not serve any purpose for you or your family.

Labeling the boxes and ensuring that everything that went into it are well and carefully packed and cannot be damaged in transit is what you should ensure and this information about the items marked fragile should be passed on to the professional mover on the day of the move.

Winding up

Get the kids transferred to the new school in the new location you are moving into and get the necessary transfer certificates.

If the need arises’ transfer the bank operations to your new location too as it would be a hassle for you to come all the way to attend to urgent bank matters.

Visit the local Post Office and get the required documentation for transfer of location and ensure you obtain confirmation because important documents should not be pilfered or lost after you leave.

Documentations

Documentation to confirm that all final utility payments have been settled, and confirmation that they are all in order from the relevant authorities or from the landlords or estate agents.

Having these documentations with you is necessary as you may be required to produce them at a later date if the unforeseen happens.

Movers

Written confirmation from the movers and packers, to whom you have commissioned your move, confirming that they will arrive at the appointed time and date, to execute the contracted move.

It is important that you select the right mover so that you would not wanting and waiting in wane and they would not arrive even after collecting some part of the charges that they are expected to receive.

Packing list and inventory

The packers and movers would have to sign the packing list and the inventory whilst taking delivery of your stuff and they are obliged to deliver same to your new location and if they fail to do so you could be in serious trouble if you do not have at least the items on record that have been handed over to them.

Depending on the size and design of the steel building there are two options for moving it. Larger steel buildings sealed to a foundation will need to be disassembled and reassembled, while smaller steel buildings may be able to be moved short distances in one piece. Either way, moving a steel building 50 feet or 500 miles requires a lift and a skilled lift operator; if it’s being moved any significant distance an 18-wheeler will be required.

It is possible to move smaller steel buildings like sheds or small garages without disassembling it. If a smaller building is being moved a short distance, say from one end of a property to another it can actually be slid. The process begins by carefully raising the front of the steel building with a lift and sliding wood under it to act like a stand and then again repeating this process on the back to the building. Then, by attaching a towrope to the wood beneath the building, the steel structure can be towed from one place to another.

While this method is much less costly than disassembly and reassembly it’s also more risky. Uneven movement can cause bending and warping that can damage or destroy the structural integrity of a steel building. An advisable, but not surefire method of preventing flexing is to reinforce the skids by attaching 2×4’s cut to the width the building to the skids creating a sort of frame. In the end the building can be towed on the skids by a truck; much like a child being slid through the snow on a sled by his parents.

If the building needs to be moved further then it can be raised up by the lift from the 2 until a truck is able to move below it at which point the lift can lower the steel building or shed onto the bed of the truck. The truck can then relocate the building and then again a lift and raise and lower the steel building onto its new property.

Moving a larger building is much more complex because it involved breaking down a building into its basic components, transporting the components, and then reassembling them back together. The most important part of breaking down a building is organization. Improper deconstruction can create costly expenses in the form of lost or damaged parts. It’s highly highly recommended that skilled laborers be hired to ensure the structural integrity of the steel building is protected through all phases of the moving process.

Breaking down a building is essentially done in the reverse order of constructing one. Remove the trim and accessories, then the roof and wall sheeting, then the framing. A new foundation with the appropriate anchor bolts will need to be prepared at the new location. Once all of the components are moved from the original location to the new location the reconstruction process can begin as if it were a brand new building. High-quality buildings will be easier to move because their components will be able to better withstand the wear and tear of being taken apart and put back together. Also, pre-welded clips on buildings will speed up the entire process and prevent the loss of loose bolted clips during the move.

Planning to move to a new city with family? You must be searching for the cheapest way to make your move memorable. It is not as simple a task as it seems and requires a lot of effort and money to manage this chaotic twist and turn of your life. It is very expensive to pack and move all the household possessions and transport them to the new destination in a smooth way. The cumbersome packing activities, loading goods on trucks, unloading at your new home with the rearrangement, and many others make you stressed and clumsy. Also, high moving costs stress you a lot along with hectic chores of move that enforces everyone to desperately look for cheaper methods to plan your move.

If you are planning a budgeted move, then you are well aware of how difficult the road ahead of you is. But you do not need to worry as we have prepared money-saving hacks and tricks, which will perfectly help you in saving your pennies.

Money-Saving Hacks to Plan Your Move in a Better Way

Prepare Your Own Moving Budget

Moving to another location will become simple and smooth once you have prepared your moving budget in the advance. Your moving budget will enable you to distribute the money judiciously in all the tasks moreover you will get alert when you need more financial resources. With this, you will be able to have more control over your spending.

1. Choose Best Time for Your Move

Keep some flexibility while choosing your moving date, then make use of that chance as the cheap moving tactic. If you do the moving booking in advance, there are high chances that you will get the early bird discount. Also, if you have booked your move in non-peak season, you will get additional discounted deals that give huge price discounts for early booking.

2. Cleverly Organize Your Time

Someone has rightly said that time & tide waits for none and time is money. The most effective way to transform your move into a cheaper one is to manage your time cleverly. For this, you should frame your moving calendar and mention all your moving tasks date-wise so that you won’t get confused while performing your moving activities. In this way, you will be able to save a lot of time and money.

3. Search for Reputed Movers

There are infinite options to move smoothly and affordably to your new destination. To implement it, you should find reputed packers and movers for your relocation. You should devote some of your busy moments to hunting for the moving company with a good reputation and best price quotes after comparing with other companies existing in the industry.

4. Pack Limited Stuff for Move

Generally for all the people, moving means packing all the home stuff and transports it to the new location. It is not the right way to implement your move smoothly. One should get rid of unrequired things from the useful ones. With this, you will have all the useful and essential household goods with you. Also, your moving cost will automatically reduce with the fewer items in your consignment. So, if you are having some items that you have not used for many years, it doesn’t make sense to keep them with you at your new premises.

5. Sell Unnecessary Goods and Get Money

It is good to know about the money-saving tips while moving but it is best to save your bucks before your move. One should keep unwanted household stuff on sale to get the extra money that you can consume to bear your moving expenses and even chill out on the way to reduce your moving stress. For putting items on sale, you make use of the online platforms lists like Facebook MarketPlace, Craiglist, Amazon, and eBay.

6. Arrange Packing Carton Free of Cost

You won’t believe that if you are packing yourself, more than half of the expenses will be on the packing cartons. The best part is that you can save your money if you will arrange the moving boxes for free. You can arrange for good quality second-hand cardboard boxes from friends who have recently relocated or from nearby local businesses like grocery shops, wine shops, chemist shops, scrap shops, etc.

7. Arrange Most of Packing Material Yourself

Do you know that your home is filled with a lot of packing essentials? You can use that essential with the ones you have at your home with the alternative that movers bring in your home for the packing. Some of them are buckets, trash cans, suitcases, bags, bedsheets, towels, and other pieces of fabric for cushioning and wrapping your household stuff. Also, you must be having old newspapers, which you can use as the padding material on the goods surface.

8. Do Packing Task Yourself

Either you have booked the moving or not, you should keep in mind that the stressful process of packing will add more than enough to your moving expenses. It is better to keep valuable and fragile goods for packers and movers and do the rest of the packing yourself. If you can somehow manage this task, you will be saving your huge amount. Decide yourself what to do next…

9. Self-Moving is Best

While moving on a strict budget, the most vital activity is to explore cheap relocation ideas and choose the ones that would save your hard-earned pennies. You should not deny the fact that the moving process is a bit of an expensive affair. If you take help from your buddies, relatives and decide to take the limited household goods with you, then the best way for you is to arrange a DIY move for the ages.

10. Go through Job Relocation Options

If you are moving to another destination owing to new job prospects then there might be possibilities that your new company will provide you job relocation costs. In this situation, you need not worry and arrange the moving company who will bear your complete moving pain and prepare a relocation scenario for you.

Now, you have got to know about the money-saving hacks that will prove beneficial for you if followed properly. It is up to you to make your move memorable one or a nightmare. By spending your money judiciously, you will save your huge moving cost.

We would all like to make a wish upon a falling star, rub the magic Buddha belly, lucky rabbits foot, or say a prayer to God, and believe all our dreams will magically come true, but the hard reality is, it seldom, if ever happens.

The Quakers had a saying “As you pray, move your feet.” Meaning don’t just make a request and expect a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Make your request to God, Allah, the universe by all means yes, but take action to make it a reality, because in essence the God can do more through you, than he can do for you.

(for the sake of this article we will use God), As an example, to pray to God to win the publishers clearing house and then never entering it, is a clear case of praying and not moving your feet. It’s just not going to happen. To often we are lazy in our requests to God and expect miracles with little or no effort from us. If we are seriously committed to a desire and/or goal, stay focused, stay on track, and God will lead the way to your destiny, but God has to do it through us.

Think about the times in your life when you have had your greatest achievements or desires come true. Did it just happen out of the blue, or were you so focused on wanting that thing in your life, that nothing was going to stop you? I’ll bet you kept your eye on the prize, letting nothing distract you, and gave that goal your full attention didn’t you?

This is a prime example of God opening up and clearing the path of success your you. Thought, Word and Deed. Thought =what you desired. Word= Your expression of that thought to God. Deed= Moving your feet in action toward your desired goal.

It is a powerful, unstoppable combination for success. If you’re struggling to reach your goals or to have your prayer answered the way you would like, take stock of your commitment level. If you approach your prayers with undeniable faith, coupled with action, the path will become clear and you will achieve more and more in your life.

Remember, Thought, Word & Deed, and let God work through you to fulfill your utmost desires. God be with you, to your success,

One very important aspect of moving from an old home to a new home is making sure that the move from the old home goes as smoothly as possible. A move into a new home can’t really begin until the move from an old home has been completed. To help the person moving make sure that their move goes as efficiently as possible, there are several things that they can do before the movers show up at their front door ready to pack and load. The following is a checklist of items that can be accomplished to make the entire process go much faster.

–Call to schedule a moving company far enough in advance to receive in person estimates and to comparison shop. The person moving should leave enough time to find a mover and enough time to make sure that the mover has an open slot on the day the move is desired.

–Start Packing the Little Stuff. Things like movies, books, CD’s, toys, etc. can be stored in boxes before the movers get there. Cleaning up the little clutter around the large pieces of furniture will make the job of moving much easier for the movers.

–Clean Up A Little Bit. Speaking of clutter, any dirty areas of the home should also be cleaned. The movers are not cleaners and don’t like to be treated as such. Some movers might refuse to move an item if it is covered in excessive dust, filth, dirt, grime, etc. A few days before the movers are scheduled to arrive, simply go through the house and tidy up a bit. If you were a stranger coming into your home for the first time ready to pack belongings into boxes, would you mind going through your home? Some movers might even decide to walk off the job rather than spend their time sorting through household goods and piles of trash.

–Arrange with the utility companies to shut off power to the old home a day after the movers are scheduled to arrive. This will ensure that the movers have light and heat while they work, which is especially helpful in darker and colder climates.

–Call the post office at least a week in advance to alert them to the change of address. This can also be done online by visiting http://www.USPS.com.

–If small children happen to live in the home to be moved, the person moving should try their hardest to find a sitter. Small children have a way of interrupting the work of the movers by going through boxes looking for favorite toys or other items. It is also safer to have fewer children in the house because movers can have a difficult time watching the ground for babies and small children as they walk backwards down a stair well carrying a sofa.

While this checklist does not have to be followed to the letter, the person who takes advantage of the checklist will find their moving experience considerably less difficult. If it appears that this checklist will not be suitable for a person’s specific needs, then it should at least be used as a template to design a completely custom checklist. The important thing here is to plan ahead. Those who plan ahead tend to have more success with meeting schedules and avoiding unplanned mishaps.

Another important thing to keep in mind is that anyone facing a move should use common sense. They should put themselves in the shoes of the movers to make the area is as comfortable and easy to work in as possible. No clutter, no mess, and no kids in the home are an easy way to get this done.

As folks endure the ‘shelter-in-place’ orders from State Governments many have begun to re-evaluate their lives. Others have lost their jobs and are uncertain if they will get them back again. University students have been told that college is canceled. Thus, there are a whole lot of people considering a move during the Corona Virus crisis.

It might be a good time to move, as real estate prices have taken a big hit and the market looks like it could potentially crash again. Some renters will be forced to move as rents have crept up too high, and are now unsustainable with so many people out of work – some temporarily, some may be permanently unemployed.

A large number of people are thinking about moving, yet some are scared to move right now due to the Covid-19 disease. Some of these fears may be justified, still, with proper and careful mitigation it is possible to move safely and minimize the risk of Corona Virus. Luckily, there are a few very solid moving companies that go out of their way to ensure your safety during this health crisis. If you find a good moving and storage company, you’ll be fine.

If you are planning a move during these trying times there are many things you should be thinking about. Let’s spend a few minutes and discuss these so you can come up with a safe strategy to safely move in these challenging times of Corona.

Important Considerations When Moving During a Pandemic Health Emergency

The first thing you need to consider is if the state you are moving to has a quarantine period. That is to say, a time where you must stay in your home, generally 14-days, or until you are sure you have no symptoms, whichever is longer. Such quarantine periods are mandatory in Texas and Florida and many other states. You’ll need a plan so that you have everything you need once you arrive at your new home.

Next, let’s discuss packing up all your stuff. If you have a moving company crew do this for you, you might want to wait to unpack such belongings for a week or so simply because the coronavirus can live on certain surfaces for a long-time. The things you will be using right away, perhaps you might pack up those things yourself. When unpacking it might be wise to have a UV light over the box as you unpack, as UV light kills the virus in about 2-minutes.

Always wash your hands early and often, and avoid touching your face while unpacking. Have family members do the same. Make it a ritual, each time you take something from a box and place it somewhere in the house, wash hands before grabbing the next item, especially if someone other than you did the packing. You can laugh about it all next year, remembering the whole ordeal. Your family will be stronger once this is all over.

Hiring a Moving Company During the Covid-19 Crisis

Ask the owner or the manager at the moving company what they do to reduce the risk of the coronavirus spread. Ask if the movers will be wearing masks. Explain that you don’t want anyone to come to your old home or your new home if they show signs of having the virus such as a cough, fever, or other common symptoms. Ask if you have the right to turn away a crew member who you see is coughing if you have the right to ask them to leave the premises.

The best moving and storage companies already have protocols and plans in place to prevent the spread of coronavirus. Moving companies are considered essential workers and they take their industry, jobs, and mission to carefully and safely move you very seriously.

Some Final Thoughts on Completing Your Move

One smart idea that moving consultants and moving experts are recommending during this Corona Virus crisis is to have the movers move in the big furniture into position, the heavy stuff, and put the rest of the unpacked boxes in the garage. It’s easy to disinfect the surfaces of the big furniture with Lysol and/or a similar disinfectant. For wood furniture, hit them with Lemon Pledge afterward to prevent any damage to the surface.

When unpacking the boxes, simply move them one-at-a-time out onto the driveway on a sunny day and begin unpacking. As soon as one is done, start the next one.

Although, you will probably be in somewhat close proximity to the moving crew, try to keep this at a minimum and maintain a safe distance 6-10 feet. If you always maintain the distance, they will too out of courtesy, it’s human nature. You don’t even need to mention it generally, just keep the distance. Also, wear a mask when the moving crew is moving, ask the moving team does as well. Keep kids and elderly members of your family in a room where no moving is going on during the process. Everything is going to be alright

If and when your new neighbors come forth to introduce themselves. Tell them thank you, and tell them that you are under the required quarantine since you moved from another area, but only for 14-days. Tell them that you feel fine, but those are the rules.

Tell them how very happy you are to have nice neighbors and that you will be so happy when this is all over so you can get to know them and invite them over. Exchange only email addresses and phone numbers for now. If something comes up, that’s the best way to communicate for the time being. Be Great, we will all get through this together, and enjoy your new fresh start.