Modern Homemakers

Tips for Moving Into New Home

Especially when you have too much stuff, here are some tips to make moving to a new home easier.

Moving to a new home is not everyone’s favorite thing to do. But we change addresses for various reasons. A better deal with the rent, closer to the office, a bigger space for a growing family — the motives usually dictate how big of a space we need and where. Unfortunately, the logistics can be quite a struggle to juggle!

Here are some tips for moving to a new home:

1. Set up the internet first

Internet is now a necessity, not a privilege. Kids get their schoolwork online and so is our work! Internet Service Providers (ISPs) usually take a while to set up and it takes some persistent badgering or pestering to get them to set up. Even if we paid one month in advance, so, some parents start it the month before they move in and call every other day or so.

Another tip: Make sure the place we’re moving into is capable of fiber internet. Some areas — especially old condos — still haven’t caught up even though telecom companies have already switched to fiber optic cables.

2. Make sure the new place accepts pets

Especially in condominiums, some already have banned pets because some residents don’t maintain their furbabies and are unwilling to keep things clean. Because of the “wet dog smell” or the stench of urine and poop that already permeated the walls due to negligent furparents, the value of the land can go down unless they’re quite used to the scent.

Usually, condo administration offices have paperwork for these kinds of things.

3. Practice going to your new place and others

A new place also means new roads and spots. While exploring can be done after completely moving in, at least source out the necessities like the gas station, supermarket, and hospital to ensure our family’s basic needs are answered. Although we have Google Maps or Waze to give us an idea, that’s all it does — driving through the roads near our home is a different story.

Especially if we’re moving city, they have different road rules and cultures.

4. Change the addresses already in online shopping apps

Once we lock in the place, we already have an address which means we can store that data already on our favorite shopping apps like Lazada, Shoppe, and even Grab. Especially if we have a final date already of when we’re moving out, we can already input the information so we can make the order for something we realize our new home may need.

Another hack we’ve learned: saving our new address in our phone! Every smartphone comes with a clipboard function wherein we can lock that exact text so we don’t have to keep typing the whole address everytime.

5. Sell some of the stuff you don’t need

The less stuff to bring the better — some of the things we bought out of impulse may just be taking space in our old home. Selling them or decluttering those things not only makes more space for the things that we need to move out but it’s also cheaper. Plus, the money we make from the stuff we sell can be used to pay the movers.

If we’re renting from someone and we bought our own appliances, we can offer it to the landowners. Aircons, refrigerators, and the like are usually hard to bring around so they just sell them. Besides, some landowners appreciate that because now they can charge a higher price for a more “furnished” space.

6. For working parents: update your employment information

Especially if we’ve been living in that spot so long, we may have to update our address, especially for those who originally came from the province. Companies who like to send stuff to their employees to celebrate their birthdays or work anniversaries rely on that information. And if we’re working in an industry that does a lot of gift exchanges, updating that information is a must.

Moving into a new home isn’t easy but it is a necessity (sometimes)

While a lot of us hate doing logistics and coordinating transfers, sometimes it’s a must when we’re moving into a new home. But the hard part is also telling the kids who have lived there all their lives — to them, it feels like we’re leaving their home even though the new place is also. It’s fear of the unfamiliar which usually causes their meltdowns but by talking to them about it, they’ll also have time to process everything.

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