How To Unpack After Moving Home

If you happen to be thinking that the process of moving house ends the moment the removal van departs from your new home, you might as well prepare yourself to be unpleasantly surprised.

Standing among intimidating piles of packed boxes which are silently screaming “Unpack me already!”, you’ll soon learn the bitter truth that your move is far from over. There are still plenty of unpacking and organizing tasks to be taken care of before you can finally sit comfortably in your most favorite chair, enjoy the impeccable look of your new place with a much needed drink in your hands and congratulate yourself on a job well done.

How to unpack after moving house? Well, the best way to finish unpacking is to actually get down to it without any further delay, so one of the first questions you need to answer is where to begin the unpacking process.

Which Rooms To Unpack First?

Bedroom

There’s no question about which room you should unpack first of all and get ready for normal usage when you start opening the moving boxes. After the truly tiring moving day and the accumulated exhaustion during the pre-move period, you won’t survive another busy day until you have a good night’s rest in the newly-unpacked sleeping quarters.

Your top priority is, of course, to set up the bed (if there isn’t one already) so that you have something to lay your weary body on. If partial or full bed assembly is required, make sure you know how to put it back together by following the instruction manual, or seek help if the task proves to be way over your head.

Bathroom

When you’re done unpacking the bedroom, move on to make sure the bathroom is ready to be used. After hours of unpacking and arranging your new residence, it’s only natural that you’d want to take a quick revitalizing shower before giving in to the inescapable gravitational force field of your own bed.

Hang up the shower curtains and bathroom towels and provide the necessary toiletries. If there’s a medicine cabinet, don’t forget to fill it in with your prescription medications.

Kitchen

A hungry belly has no ears, remember?

You do need to maintain your energy level high throughout the entire unpacking process, and in order to accomplish just that, you’re going to need a kitchen that is fully operational – a refueling station where you can have frequent stops for tasty food and refreshing drinks. As you probably suspect, kitchens tend to take a very long time to unpack, arrange and organize properly due to the large number of small and oddly shaped kitchenware.

Nevertheless, you are advised to start unpacking your kitchen by hooking up the major kitchen appliances first (refrigerator, freezer, cooking stove, dishwasher, washing machine, etc.), followed by the smaller electric appliances that belong in the most delicious room in the house – your microwave oven, coffee maker, toaster and so on.

And then, when you’re done unpacking your bedroom, bathroom and kitchen with the emergency they require, you can proceed to organize the rest of the rooms in your house or apartment with a much slower pace, including the storage spaces such as your attic, basement and garage. The last thing you’d want is to exhaust yourself too much, so you can take advantage of the following solid tips for unpacking after a move that will help you speed up the process.

How To Unpack Quickly After Moving?

Yes, you would definitely want to know how to unpack your household items quickly after the move. After all, unpacking is by far not the only concern of yours when you have already relocated to a new residence.

Let’s not forget about the other pressing tasks that you will have to take care of in order to get your life back into some kind of a normal routine once again – finding a new job (if applicable), finding a new family physician and a vet, finding a new decent school for your school-age child, connecting the utilities and arranging the delivery services, getting familiar with your new neighbourhood and city, including getting to know your next door neighbours, and so on.

Maintain your focus

With so many things on your mind, it surely won’t be easy to keep your concentration for a long time while unpacking after moving house.

However, a good and proven approach for finishing more work without any distractions is to break down your major goal (to finish unpacking and organize your home) into numerous mini goals which will be much faster to complete.

And then, having finished a mini task (for example, unpacking your clothes and arranging them in your wardrobe), you can reward yourself with half an hour (at least) of an activity you do enjoy.

Don’t put off until tomorrow…

what you can unpack today. Procrastinating thoughts such as “I’ll finish this tomorrow” or “I’ll get this done later” will not get you too far into the unpacking process, at least not as fast as you would like to. Be mindful that procrastination is definitely not your best friend when it comes to settling quickly into your new home. Remember: a bit of extra unpacking efforts today will make things much easier tomorrow.

Clean and recycle

While immersed in the never-ending process of unpacking your household after the move, you’ll be better off cleaning your unpacking space regularly due to the rapid accumulation of unnecessary packing materials and rubbish and dust created by each opened container.

And undoubtedly, each unpacked box is yet another empty moving container whose fate you need to decide promptly. You can keep or give to people in need the moving boxes which are still usable. Also, you should recycle properly the boxes which won’t survive to see another move – that is, the ones already in a deplorable state.

Unpacking = fun?

Yes, the above equation can still be valid if you want it to be valid. So, how to make unpacking a fun experience?

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  Unpack stress-free at a speed comfortable for you;

• Throw an unpacking party and invite some close friends over to help you out while talking about the good old times;
• Attempt to get into an unpacking rhythm under the sounds of some great music;
• Do have relaxing breaks, but not before you’ve completed a mini goal successfully;

And most importantly, keep repeating to yourself that this strange place you’ve just moved into and which you’re desperately trying to organize is, for better or worse, your new home and will be so for years to come.

And while you’re taking advantage of the above-mentioned unpacking tips after moving, be sure to go the extra mile and turn your new place of residence into a beautiful and harmonious home, a safe haven and a strong fortress.

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