Moving Can Be Your Opportunity to Remove Junk

It is one of the great habits to keep the home organized by storing only what you need more frequently. However, not many people think about it. 

It has become a general habit to store the items that we don’t normally use. As a result, we may find areas like garage, storage and garbage filled with the items we don’t need. And then, it remains confusion whether or not those items should be discarded, donated or sold away. While you may look for the opportunities to remove the junk, the best one you may get is when you are about to move. Moving is the time when you are required to walk through all spaces of the home and look at the items that you are going to need in the new home. It means that it is going to be easier for you to decide which items are not going to be needed where you are moving to.

Reasons for junk removal while moving

The reason we keep storing junk in our storage places is that we believe that we are going to use those items again. But then, those items are never seen after being put into the closets and storage places. When we move to the new home, we require walking through all of the rooms in the home to classify the items. At this time, we can decide about removing the items which we are not going to need in the new home.

A few reasons why you need to remove junk are worth mentioning here.

Donate

If you have not been paying attention to giving people who do not have as much as you have, moving is the best time to consider this deed. Donating unused items is many times better than keeping them in the attic to gather dust.

Saving time

If you are asked to tell about the most time consuming activity while moving, you would surely name the packing process. While packing, you have to make sure that items are packed securely. Thus, you will need to have a strategy to pack your items. Moreover, it takes a lot of time to organize the items to be packed. If there are a lot of items, you will obviously have to spend more time to pack. However, if you pay attention to keeping only what you need in the new home, you will find yourself getting rid of the additional burden from your head.

Creating room for something that you are going to need

You are definitely going to need new items in the new place. But how are you going to do that if you already have too much with you while moving in? This is the reason that you need to consider removing the junk in order to create room for the things that you are absolutely going to need in the new home.

8 Packaging and Shipping Tips for Businesses

Have you ever gotten something in the mail that had been damaged to some extent?  Maybe even destroyed?  When it comes to selling your product, or even offering a gift to your client, having them unwrap something that’s been broken is the opposite effect you want to be making.  

This is where proper packing and shipping techniques are going to save the day, and you can accomplish them both by following 8 simple steps:

• Reusing some shipping supplies is frugal and economically friendly, but if you are using an old box you should make sure that previous packing labels and barcodes have been removed.  Not only will it look better for your company, but it will help avoid your package being improperly scanned and sent to the wrong place.
• Use the H-tape method when sealing a box.  This ensures that your package won’t reopen before it’s supposed to.  Taping along all of the seams will produce an H, hence the name of the taping method.  Also, don’t assume that a box is always best the option.  Mailing envelopes and even tubes can better serve you, and save you money in the process.
• Proper shipping supplies really make a difference.  For instance, 2 inch wide plastic or reinforced paper tape is what you want to be using for packaging and shipping.  Masking tape is inefficient, and postal service providers flatly refuse to ship anything sealed with duct tape.  But you wouldn’t want to be using duct tape for a professional look, anyway… Right?

• If you are sending something super fragile and valuable, nest one box inside of another, cushioned well.  This might cost you more on shipping supplies, but it’s going to save you paying for a returned item and losing your customer’s business if your product shows up broken.
• Using newspaper is a great way to recycle, but the ink really does stain some stuff.
• Including a second shipping label within your package will actually save you money in the long run if you wind up having to process a return.
• Check shipping schedules so that you can properly calculate when a package should be arriving to your customer.  Even being off by one day can lose you return business.
• The USPS, FedEx, and UPS are all major service providers, so you can rest assured that you are going to get good service.  On the other hand, you may be paying more for that assurance.  Look into local messenger services who would be more than happy to receive your business!