Super Easy Tips for Clearing a Room for Your Next Move

When getting ready for a move, it's a great time to visit all those unopened boxes (affiliate) and unused stuff that may have been brought to the existing home before it continues with you to your destination. Removing them now will help you save money shipping them to your new home. It will also protect your body from carrying them. Don't you want to get rid of the unwanted stuff now? So, in this post, I will explain the process you can do with your Professional Organizer or friend/family member when clearing a room for a move.

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Super Easy Tips for Clearing a Room for a Move
Where to start?
Sorting items into different areas is vital in this process.
Go through boxes.
Before and After the Spare Bedroom Purging Transformation
Conclusion
What to do with the empty moving boxes

Super Easy Tips for Clearing a Room for a Move

First, we picked the room/space you don't use often. Most likely, it will be a spare bedroom or spare closet. This client used her home office to store boxes (affiliate) she hadn't used in a while.

Where to start?

We started from the room's entrance and worked around the right side. We followed the wall because it created a path for us as we began to purge. This consultation was about 3 hours long. Since there were many boxes (affiliate), we could only do half the bedroom in these 3 hours. We got rid of bags and bags of stuff that were old and worn. Many things in the boxes (affiliate) were not used for several years. Since the person I was working with was a retiree with knee issues, she couldn't carry the boxes (affiliate) down the stairs. So, to rectify the issue, she found and purchased several boxes of heavy-duty paper grocery bags with handles to make it easier to transport and manage the donated items. The handles made it easy for her to carry a few down the steps at a time. Because the bags were paper, she could write the "action" for that particular bag right on the paper bag. It was a brilliant idea! We used it throughout this project and other future projects.

Sorting items into different areas is vital in this process.

We created areas of the room and started sorting the items into these areas. Primarily, the sorted piles included Recycle, Sell, or Donate. We used plastic bags for things she didn't want to recycle, so she knew they were trash and needed to go to the dumpster. Additionally, we sorted some of the items into to-do tasks and "find a home" actions.

Go through boxes.

One by one, we went through the boxes. Purging, sorting, and deciding on what the item was still helpful and where it should go. We worked through the room by working top-down and along the wall, taking our time. While I asked several questions, it helped her make up her mind on what she should keep. I didn't pressure her or give her any of my opinions on the object. She had to decide for herself.

Tip: It's helpful to go through each box one at a time. Pulling from one and then another will just leave you with two boxes that are not completely done.

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Below are the before and after purging stuff transformation! I hope they motivate you to get organized!

Before and After the Spare Bedroom Purging Transformation

After photo bedroom — Before Bedroom photo

Conclusion

What a transformation in only 3 hours! It's incredible how boxes create clutter and hold so many unwanted items. It takes time to go through each and every box. But when you do, you really appreciate your accomplishment and the room you free up.

Taking the time to go through these items is crucial. Everyone works at their own pace, and determining how long and how slow or fast they can handle it is up to them. If you have someone helping you, be sure to communicate your process to them and what the best way for you to get through the mess is. Enjoy the process of getting rid of stuff.

What to do with the empty moving boxes

Let's see, there are several things you can do with moving boxes. You can donate them to someone in the community you live in now. Plenty of communities have Facebook Groups where you can share free stuff so others can take advantage of it.

You can also recycle the cardboard, of course.

You can add it to Craiglist to see if someone wants them for their future move.

Donating them to a charity is also a good option. Animal shelters, homeless shelters, etc... may need them as well for storage or other uses.

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