Home shifting should be done with proper planning. It requires a lot of attention and preparations to shift your precious household goods safely without any damage. Its unlikely that you are going to do the packing and moving by yourself and chances are that you assume hiring a professional packers and movers service provider company is all that you need.
Well, you may be right. A professional shifting and relocation company (packers and movers as they are called in India) will take care of shifting of each and every item that you ask for. But you know packing, loading, transporting, unloading all of these takes effort and the movers and packers company is going to give you a long list of itemized bill for this.
So what’s the solution? Get your inventory right. Make sure to check, recheck and check it again to ensure you are not asking packers and movers to pack and move anything that is unwanted or not in use or in usable condition anymore.
Why get rid of these unwanted items
That’s a million dollar questions and the one that is most important is that’s it is unwanted. As we call it unwanted, it’s obvious that these goods are not in use, or you may not use them in near future or it is simply not usable.
In a home, there are hundreds of items (small and large). Now some of them are used frequently and others are not required. Some of them might be useful and others are damaged. So why carry something that is not usable. For example a chair with a broken arm. It’s okay to get it repaired, but it’s lying there since long and you did not find time to get it repaired and you are doing without it.
Just get rid of it. There is no point paying for this to be packed and transported just to get stored again at your new home. There could be many more items like that.
Goods, that you have in your home is really precious and you are emotionally attached with it and that’s fine, one should be. But when you have to pay for the packing and transporting, its better you think twice and ensure that you actually want to get it packed and moved. If you come to a conclusion that you need it, you should add it to the list of goods to be packed, else move it to the other list e.g. ‘to be sold’ or ‘to be donated’ or to be scrapped’. Decision is all yours take a call by yourself.
How to get your inventory right
Now when you have some household goods that you want to get rid of before shifting your home, its time to further investigate it. Investigate the list because the items could be disposed off, sold or donated.
Once you have the list of goods that you want to get rid off before you shift your home, its time to check out how to get rid of those items. Lets check it out.
Sell
If goods are in good condition and are usable, but you don’t want to pack and move it with yourself say due to storage space limitations, you can simply sell it. You can sellout such items in many ways. To begin with you, you can post a sell ad on one of the classified website like quirk.com or click.in. There are free and premium packages and you can expect good number of response from your ads.
Broadcast yourself on your social channels like Facebook, Twitter etc and let your friends and followers know that you want to sell some old used item.
Donate
You ay also like to donate your old and used stuff instead of selling. Donating your stuff will give you a different kind of satisfaction. You can donate your goods in many ways, you can give it to individuals or NGOs. If you have lots of used books, you may like to donate it to a library in your neighborhood.
Dispose
Still there is something in your sore room? Just dispose it. Dispose off goods that’s of no use and if you are unable to sell it. Usually scrap vendors buy all kind of stuff, but if you don’t find one then disposing off is the only way-out.
To conclude
All I am trying to say is while you plan to shift your home grab the opportunity to clean out your home. Get rid of all unwanted or extra stuff and save on packing and moving as well as save storage space in your new home. Your new home may not be as big as your current home, so you should plan well before packing and moving.
Hope you are ready? Go ahead and get quick estimates for your home shifting from multiple packers and movers to evaluate and hire.
Wish you a happy relocation.
