Planning your move with small kids

Planning your move with small kids

Packing up your life and settling into a whole new community is hard enough as an adult. Throwing small kids into the mix makes moving a bit more complicated. Children want consistency and certainty. They tend to dislike change, and moving is a huge change. With a...
6 Essential Steps for an Easier Move

6 Essential Steps for an Easier Move

Moving is not easy. The process can be incredibly overwhelming, physically and mentally. Not only are you packing up your lives into boxes and bins, but you are also uprooting yourself from your previous home and starting over somewhere new. At times, moving sounds...
Moving in the Rain: Foul Weather Tips and Tricks

Moving in the Rain: Foul Weather Tips and Tricks

Despite even the best moving planning and advice :), unexpected rainfall or unpleasant weather condition may seem like a setback when moving into your new home. With months of planning, taking a few days off work plus the cost of renting a truck, there are many...
Moving Advice for Beginners

Moving Advice for Beginners

While it might be super exciting to be moving to a new home, especially if it’s the home of your dreams or perhaps a move from an apartment to your first home, no one really enjoys the actual process of moving. Whether you’re sizing up or scaling down, moving can be...
Your Pre-Move To-Do List: No Packing or Lifting Required

Your Pre-Move To-Do List: No Packing or Lifting Required

  Here’s a list of a few things for your pre-move to-do list that don’t require lifting or packing. But they’re still important. Change of Address for Car Insurance As if ICBC doesn’t already know enough about you! Update them with your new address. And not just...
These Simple Daily Habits Will Keep Your New Home Uncluttered

These Simple Daily Habits Will Keep Your New Home Uncluttered

Moving is an excellent opportunity to declutter your present home. (We hope clutter isn’t the reason you’re moving!) Moving is also an opportunity to create an uncluttered life. Maybe you’re not enough of a hoarder to qualify for a reality TV show, but wouldn’t it be...
Some Practical Reasons to Unpack your Coffee Pot First

Some Practical Reasons to Unpack your Coffee Pot First

Coffee lover? After your upcoming move, here’s why you’ll want to unpack your coffee pot before anything else. Most people finding drinking coffee pretty rewarding at the end of moving, or as a caffeine boost to help them unpack just a few more things before calling...
Summertime, and the Living Is Easy: Even on a Hot Moving Day

Summertime, and the Living Is Easy: Even on a Hot Moving Day

“Summertime, and the living is easy,” as the old jazz standard goes. Easy, that is, if you’re just sitting in the shade of your front porch watching the cotton grow. And catching a breeze. Not so easy if it’s on a hot moving day anywhere on the planet.  Including...
Tantrum-Free Moving with Kids Under 6

Tantrum-Free Moving with Kids Under 6

Let’s face it, there’s no way to guarantee that a 3-year-old won’t throw a tantrum at any given moment.  But you can reduce the possibility of anxiety outbursts for your kids (and you) at moving time.  If you’re worried about moving with a...