Moving Checklist – What To Do The Week Of Your Move
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One Week Before
It’s almost here, moving day, and there are several things you can do right now.
- Refill prescriptions. Stock up on prescriptions you’ll need during the next couple of weeks. This way you won’t even need to think about making sure you have any medicines you might need and you can concentrate on your move.
- Pack your suitcases. Aim to finish your general packing a few days before your moving date. Then pack suitcases for everyone in the family with enough clothes to wear for a few days. Isn’t this a great idea, everyone will have several days worth of clothes ready to go. This will end most of the digging through boxes when you get there looking for that one thing.
A Few Days Before
- Defrost the freezer. If your refrigerator is moving with you, make sure to empty, clean, and defrost it at least 24 hours before moving day. Hopefully you have planned for this and used up most of the perishable food in your freezer and refrigerator by this time. If you are moving a short distance you can pack up the food in your car on moving day and take it directly to the new fridge, but in most cases the food will need to be thrown out or kept on ice in a chest for a short period of time. When in doubt throw it out, there is no need taking chances here.
- Double-check the details. Reconfirm the moving company’s arrival time and other specifics and make sure you have prepared exact, written directions to your new home for the staff. Include contact information, such as your cell phone number. Contacting your moving company and going over the details keeps down surprises and everybody know this is a good thing on moving day.
- Plan for the payment. If you haven’t already arranged to pay your mover with a credit card, get a money order, cashier’s check, or cash for payment and tip. If the staff has done a good job, 10 to 15 percent of the total fee is a good tip. If your move was especially difficult, you might tip each mover up to $100. Don’t forget that refreshments are always appreciated. Once again, this just makes sense, when the day of the move comes you won’t want to be concerned with this, so make a plan for payment and take care of the details early.
Moving Day!
I know everybody doesn’t share my enthusiasm for moving, but the day is here and now you can relax and let the professionals do their job.
By taking the time to do the things suggested in our moving checklist, you should be ready to go and things should be smooth sailing today. There is one last thing to do.
- Before the movers leave, sign the bill of lading/inventory list and keep a copy.
Find more moving checklist ideas starting with two months before your move.
Thanks to RealSimple.com for the ideas and inspiration.
We would love to help you with your office or home move! You can get a free online moving quote right now.
Happy Moving!
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Downtown Austin Historic Walking Tours – Cool Things To Do In Austin
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Would you like to know more about the history of Austin? Here are two free guided-walking tours of downtown Austin that will help you explore.
They start at the south entrance of the Capitol building…
“The best way to discover downtown Austin’s historic treasures is on foot. When you take this historic walking tour, you’ll follow in the footsteps of governors and presidents, cattle barons, and bankers, merchants, and artists, preachers and gamblers, murderers, and prostitutes,and maybe a ghost or two. The ten-block Congress Avenue National Register District is the Main Street of Texas with its wide, impressive route to the Capitol Building. Threads of the past are intricately woven into the fabric of the city’s future as faithfully restored 19th-century buildings coexist with gleaming, 20th-century high-rises.
“The 10-block Congress Avenue and nine-block Sixth Street (Pecan Street) National Register Districts interweave modern skyscrapers with 19th century buildings such as the Old Bakery (1876), Millett Opera House (1878), Driskill Hotel (1886), Walter Tips Building (1876) and Robinson-Rosner Building (1856). Historic structures such as St. Mary’s Cathedral (1874) and St. David’s Church (1854) reflect Old World architecture.”
The Historic Congress Avenue & Sixth Street tour times are 9am Thursday through Saturday and 2pm on Sunday and require a reservation 48 hours in advance.
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If you are interested in Victorian-era high society, take a stroll through the Bremond Block Historic District, a collection of homes belonging to members of the John Bremond, Sr. family.
Walking Tours take place at 11 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays and require a 48 hour advance reservation.
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If you prefer to take a self guided tour, you can do that too. There is one of historic Hyde Park, one of Austin’s oldest neighborhoods, or the Texas State Cemetery, where many Texas heroes are buried. There is even a tour of the West Austin area.
If you’d like to see historic Austin at your own pace or to make a reservation for a guided tour just stop by the Austin Visitor Center to pick up brochures, or you can call 866-GO-AUSTIN.
Download Congress Avenue/East 6th St. Walking Tour Brochure
When you are ready we’d love to help you with your home or office move, you can get a free online quote right now.
Happy touring and moving!
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Zilker Botanical Garden – Cool Stuff To Do In Austin
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Zilker Botanical Garden – The Jewel in the Heart of Austin located at Zilker Park
You’ll find 30+ beautifully landscaped acres complete with theme gardens such as rose, herb and Japanese gardens that are interconnected with streams, waterfalls and Koi-filled ponds. They have even recreated a local dinosaur habitat.
This garden is a unique collaboration between The City of Austin Parks & Recreation Department (PARD) and the Austin Area Garden Council (AAGC). The garden is open to the public most days year-round.
From their annual spring garden festival – Zilker Garden Festival, to AAGC garden club workshops and plant sales throughout the year, to tours, they offer visitors countless ways to enjoy Zilker Botanical Garden.
And the gardens are very affordable, only $2 for adults and $1 for children and seniors. And the Gardens are open from 7am to 5:30pm (7pm during daylight savings time).
Zilker Botanical Garden is a beautiful place for your events too, whether it be a wedding or memorial ceremonies, receptions, parties and other gathering.
Zilker Botanical Gardens is part of Zilker Park, and is a non-profit organization established in 1955 to support Zilker Botanical Garden’s mission to promote the education and love of gardening among people of all ages. Its projects support beautification of the gardens visited yearly by half a million people from around the world including thousands of school children.
Find out more about Zilker Botanical Gardens.
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Moving Checklist – What To Do Two Weeks Before Your Move
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It’s two weeks until moving day, here’s your moving checklist to help you be ready to go.
- First is to continue packing, you’ve packed all the stuff you don’t use very often, but now you need to start packing those items that you use more regularly. Keep in mind it won’t be very long until you’ll be unpacking at your new home. All decorative items and art and wall decor, books, toys, dishes, the entire garage can now be packed. Be sure to mark the boxes on each side and top with the room they go in once they arrive at your new home, and make a general list of contents on top. That way you can find things more easily as you begin to unpack.
- Next you’ll need to make arrangements, if you already haven’t, to be off work on the day you move. This is especially true if you are moving locally. You may even need two days off.
- Tune up, take your car to your mechanic and find out if anything needs to be done for the climate of your new home, if you are moving far.
- “Clean out your safe-deposit box. If you’ll be changing banks, remove the contents of your safe-deposit box and put them in the safe box that you’ll take with you on moving day.” It’s a good idea to keep your important things close to you and in a safe place, you may want to purchase a small fireproof safe to keep your things in until you get to your new home and find a new bank.
- “Reconfirm the arrangements.” Check with your moving company, make sure everything is a go for your move.
Just taking care of a few things at this point can save major stress when moving day comes.
Find more moving checklist ideas starting with two months before your move.
We would love to help with your move, get a free online moving quote.
Thanks to RealSimple.com for the ideas and inspiration.
Happy Moving!
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Zilker Park – Cool Things To Do In Austin
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Zilker Park is a very cool place to visit in Austin. It is a large park next to Laby Bird Lake (formerly known as Town Lake). Zilker Part has lots of fun activities.
You could ride on the Zilker Zephyr miniature train or paddle your canoe across Lady Bird Lake.
There is a large multi-age play ground, hiking and biking trails and large full service reservable picnic areas.
For swimming and water fun; Zilker Park is the home of Barton Springs Pool, a natural spring-fed pool with a year-round average temperature of 68 degrees.
If you’re into sports there are two multi-use fields, sand volleyball courts and a nine-hole disc golf course.
Also in Zilker Park you will find the Zilker Botanical Gardens, which includes the Taniguchi Oriental Garden and the Austin Area Garden Center. And the Austin Nature and Science Center, which offers a wide variety of programs for children and adults.
The Zilker Hillside Theatre hosts concerts of all kinds from blues to country. Also this is where you’ll find the Zilker Summer Musical and Shakespeare in the Park. You’ll need a blanket to sit on.
And these are just some of the events offered at Austin favorite park!
Zilker Park is open for public use each day from 5am to 10pm unless otherwise posted.
Zilker Park charges a parking fee of $5 per car from mid-March to Labor Day weekend each year on weekends and holidays.
Find out more about Zilker Park.
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Re-usable Moving Boxes from EcoBox
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Where to find re-usable moving boxes… The age-old question as you start the process of moving. Then…what do to with them when you are finished moving? becomes the next perplexing (and sometimes rather frustrating) question.
We have a great resource with several locations in and around Central Texas – EcoBox.
Whether you need to buy standard boxes, are looking for discounted prices/have a desire to “be green-er”, want gently used boxes, have that special item that needs a box created just for it, or are ready to unload your gently used boxes after your move – EcoBox can help!
We’ve been using them for years and have always been 100% satisfied. Their prices are quite competitive (often less than the office supply stores or storage facilities) and their selection is fantastic.
Here what Ecobox has to say…
“Packing and Moving Supplies – With our comprehensive selection of packing and moving supplies we are sure to have everything to fit your needs. Boxes, wrap, paper, tape, and moving equipment – we sell or rent everything you need for your move. Our 100% Buy Back Guarantee ensures that you don’t have to worry about buying too much.”
Check out EcoBox, and let them know M&M Super Moving sent you.
Happy Moving!
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Moving Your Office Smoothly Part 2 of 2
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This post is part 2 of a two part blog post, Moving Your Office Smoothly. When it comes time to moving your office these 6 steps are filled with great ideas that can help you create a smooth move for you, your employees and your customers!
4. Packing
Packing will obviously require materials to do so. It is worth buying quality goods for the packing process because progress will be far smoother with an efficient packing tape dispenser in hand than it will with a shortage of boxes and equipment. Labels are essential and a good system needs to be established because everything needs to end up in exactly the right place in the new office.
- Besides packing materials and good labeling be sure to give your employees time to pack and unpack. Thinking through what you’ll need ahead of time will be of great benefit in office moral and the success of your move.
5. Coordination
Coordinating an office move is not like coordinating a home move for the simple reason that there are mass confidentiality issues. If something is normally kept locked away then it is important to keep it locked away during the move. This may not seem like a huge task but strict coordination is important so that you know exactly where everything needs to be and at what time.
It is also very important to maintain usual business practice during the move. Ideally the phones will be in working order throughout the move day. The business that you could lose in the short and long-term if this is not the case could be devastating to your company so it’s essential to maintain normal service on the surface at least. A high level of coordination will be needed to achieve this slick relocation.
- You may want to have a key person at the phones on the day of the move. They will be able to take messages and keep relationships flowing until your office is back to regular business.
6. Celebrate and Tweak
At the end of the move day there should be a party of some kind. An office celebration to congratulate on a job well done and ensure a happy beginning to the new office is an essential part of any move. The next few weeks will require many tweaks and corrections of practices to adjust to the new office so a brief period of relaxation will help to keep the move running smoothly.
As long as you are prepared and take your time with this process it should not only run smoothly, but also be much less stressful than you ever imagined.
- Having a party is a great idea! It welcomes your company into your new office ‘home’. Your staff has gone beyond the call to make sure your company move went well, they deserve a thank you for a job well done.
At M&M Super Moving Ltd. we want to help you with your office move, get a free online quote right now!
Happy Moving!!!
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Moving Your Office Smoothly Part 1 of 2
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It’s time to move your office. It’s a giant step in the growth of your company. Your employees are excited at the idea of better space to work. So, how do you do it without so much stress and chaos? These planning and organizing steps will reduce chaos and make moving your office go much more smoothly.
1. Meetings and Updates
Just as you would normally have project progress meetings, you will need to have office relocation meetings. In the run up to the relocation it is important to have regular meetings to make sure that everything is on schedule and moving in the right direction. Glitches in the process will undoubtedly occur but these meetings should raise any snags before they become a real problem.
- Communication is the key here, these meetings will keep everybody feeling ‘in the loop’ and that will create a successful move.
2. Tour of the New Office
Before you move out of your old office it is important that you can get an idea of the new office and how the space will work.
- At least take your key staff to your new office so they can start to see how work will flow. They can also give you their ideas about the space. This creates team work for the move, and we all know the power of synergy.
3. Notifications
It is vital that you begin notifying customers and associates about the move well in advance. All outgoing mail should include a note about the effective change of address for at least a month before you actually move. This is very important because you will almost certainly have a new phone system as well as a new postal address after the move.
- Doing this one thing will dramatically reduce your customers disruption after the move. Keeping your customers in the know creates trust. Don’t leave them hanging trying to figure out what is going on.
Ideas 4, 5 and 6 are in Part 2 of Moving Your Office Smoothly.
We would love to help you move your office, get a free quote online right now.
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Moving Checklist – What to do One Month Before Your Move
Continuing with our moving checklist series, here are 7 things for you to consider doing one month before your move.
1. First up is choose a mover and confirm arrangements. We would love to help you here. You can get a free online quote right now.
2. The next step is to begin packing. When I start packing for a move I start with all the things I don’t use very often. I go from closet to closet, cabinet to cabinet and I take care of all those things that I’m pretty sure we won’t need for a while, like the turkey cooker and my off season clothes and books. Let your moving company know if you have items of special value so that you can get everything insured properly.
3. Clearly label each box, mark the room they will go in at their new home on each side of the box and the top so you can see it easily. Also, you might want to make a general list of what’s inside, right on the top of the box.
4. As you go through your house separate anything of value and pack it separately, this could include furs, jewelry, important files, anything you want to move yourself.
5. Go to the post office or go online and fill out a change of address for each person in your home with a different last name and any businesses you run from your home. Have the mail stop a day or two before you leave so your mail will be at your new address when you arrive. Let a neighbor know when you plan to move and ask them to check your mailbox after you have gone, just in case something slips by. You might event want to give the neighbor a large envelope and a few stamps so they can easily send anything that comes after you leave.
6. “Notify important parties. Alert the following of your move: banks, brokerage firms, your employer’s human resources department, magazine and newspapers you subscribe to, and credit card, insurance, and utility companies.” Let’s face it, you are going to be busy from now until after your move, letting everybody know how to find you will keep down unnecessary head aches later.
7. “Forward medical records. Arrange for medical records to be sent to any new health-care providers or obtain copies of them yourself. Ask for referrals.” If you are moving away from your medical professionals, taking the time to get this part in order will not only insure your care will be free of gaps, but will give you a sense of peace knowing your health is taken care of.
If you will take the time one month before you move to do the things on this moving checklist you will have a much smoother and less stressed move.
Thanks to RealSimple.com for the ideas and inspiration.
Happy Moving!
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Why Use a Professional Moving Company
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Moving your home is one of life’s most stressful situations. There are many lists of things to do, to close up your life at one home and to open it in another. There are new jobs, new schools, new friends, new and old utilities to contact, cleaning, sorting, packing, carrying, organizing, and then comes time to move everything in your house.
If at all possible using a professional moving company to take care of some or all of the packing, transporting and unpacking takes a tremendous weight off your shoulders. They can do as little or as much as you choose.
Popular Reasons for Using a Professional Moving Company
- Frees up time and mental energy for other important things like preparing for a new job or tying up loose ends.
- When there isn’t a lot of time to plan your move, a moving company can take care of things quickly and efficiently even on short notice.
- A professional moving company reduces the stress and anxiety that usually accompanies moving your home.
- Moving is a lot easier and more convenient with help.
- Professional moving companies offer insurance against items that break during a move. This can serve as reassurance that your prized china or new flat-panel TV will arrive in one piece.
Weigh all of the options of using a professional moving service against moving yourself. You may find that it is more cost- and time-effective, not to mention convenient, to allow the professionals to handle this important job.
Remember, we are only a click away with all facets of help for your move. Get a free moving quote here.
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