 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. PLANNING Professional Organizers know the ins and outs—like why summer is both the best (good weather, no school disruption) and worst (peak mover season) time to move. With our expertise, we guide you through the key decisions: setting timelines, connecting with realtors, deciding what to bring, and getting quotes from movers. A major planning focus is deciding what moves and is left behind. A few years ago, I helped a client move from one condo to a smaller condo one town over. Because she called me right away, we were able to get the floor plans of her new condo and map every piece of furniture onto the new condo in precise detail. The movers were thrilled that we had a floor plan showing them exactly where everything went — and it all fit perfectly! We also assessed kitchen cabinets, closets, and storage to set realistic reduction goals, making the process targeted and efficient. PACKING Moving is the perfect chance to declutter, even if your new home isn’t smaller. Professional Organizers help you let go of items you no longer love or need—saving time and money on packing and moving fewer things. We handle logistics too: dropping off donations, arranging junk removal for large items, or coordinating sales of valuables. I always recommend letting professional movers pack fragile or high-value items so they’re fully insured. (Self-packed boxes limit mover liability for internal damage.) Your CPO can organize items for packing, help you pack non-fragiles (like clothes), sort what movers will handle, supervise loading, and label boxes by destination room. We also create an “essentials” staging area: items the movers load last so they unload first, plus car essentials like an overnight bag, jewelry, vital records, toilet paper, soap, and paper towels. UNPACKING Don’t panic when the movers unload a seemingly-unsurmountable mountain of boxes in your new home. Your team of Professional Organizers will climb it for you!  We direct movers to place boxes in the right rooms, then unpack room by room, prioritizing bedrooms, bathroom, and kitchen. We’ll even make your bed for you!
In the blank canvas of your new home, we set up systems using proven organizing best practices from day one. If you’re present, we collaborate to place items where they make sense to you. If not, we take photos or videos of everything we’ve done to give you a virtual tour. Most clients are fully settled in just a day or two—transformed and stress-free. Doesn’t that sound like a dream? Professional Organizers turn moving chaos into an organized, exciting transition. If you’re planning a move in Providence or beyond, reach out early. Let’s make your next chapter start smoothly.
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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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