 Do You Have a Move in Your Near Future?
If so, you’re likely feeling that familiar mix of excitement and dread. According to a 2022 survey, moving ranks as one of life’s most stressful events—higher than surgery or divorce. The complexity is what gets us: coordinating home sales/rentals, timelines, work/school schedules, and evaluating and packing every possession. Add emotional layers—leaving familiar places and loved ones, uncertainty about the new place, and physical exhaustion—and it’s no wonder moving feels overwhelming. That’s why hiring a Certified Professional Organizer® (CPO) makes all the difference. We treat your move like any organizing project: breaking it into manageable steps, creating a clear timeline, guiding decisions, and handling the chaos of packing, sorting, and settling in. You get to focus on the joy of your new chapter instead of the stress. Call a CPO right away—as soon as you’re considering a move. Early involvement allows preliminary planning and decluttering before overwhelm sets in. In fact, we can help with all three phases of moving: planning, packing, and unpacking.
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 Set Yourself Up for SuccessWhether your next move is across town or across the country, whether it’s in 5 weeks or 5 years, I want to help you make it go as smoothly as possible. We all know that moving is super stressful. Last month, I detailed my Top 5 Move Don’ts. This month, on a more positive note, I turned once again to my Certified Professional Organizer® and Move Management expert friends to bring you my Top 5 Move Do’s!  #1: DO start preparing early!
It’s never too early to start! But hold on just a sec! Before you grab a box and get packing, take the advice of Geri Chark Frankel, CPO® at GCF Organizing: do a video walkthrough of your home. This will document your possessions for insurance, guide you (or your professional organizing unpack team) in setting up the new home, and serve as a memento.  “I just saw a RAT!!!”
“Where?” Asked my ever-calm husband mildly, not displaying anywhere near the appropriate level of hysteria. I mean, a rat! A RAT! OK, so upon inspection, it was not a rat cowering in the corner of our new home behind piles of moving boxes. It was a scared baby possum. The morning after a 23-hour move, I can be excused for mistaking the snaky-tailed varmint for a rat. Especially when the move should have taken about 9 hours. Instead, it dragged on into the wee hours of the night, allowing a confused little possum to wander in through an open door. Other things that went wrong with that move included:
Thankfully, I learned from that disaster and, when we moved locally six months later, I hired an awesome professional moving company who moved the EXACT SAME STUFF in one truck in 6 hours. |
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