2016

If you're prepared for a move, you're in the middle of packing and figuring out the ins and outs of your new neighborhood, while trying to tie up loose ends as you near the final days in your current home. Injury can make the stress of a move even more pronounced, but the physical and mental stress of moving can actually hurt you badly. Here are some things you should do to make sure that you and those helping you move avoid injury.

The reasons for moving are many and usually positive, such as when relocating offers families a higher income, more opportunities or the chance to live closer to other family members, friends and loved ones. The actual moving process, however, often ends up being much less enjoyable. This is especially true when the move involves a distance of hundreds or thousands of miles. If you are planning to relocate soon, consider using some or all these tips to help you streamline and facilitate your moving process from start to finish.

If you're getting ready to move, there is a little extra preparation involved when packing up your garage, particularly for those who have tools of various sizes, gasoline, and other chemicals lying around. But getting your space organized and move-ready is relatively simple when you know what to do. Whether you hire a moving company like Bell Moving & Storage or handle it yourself, here are four steps for packing up your garage.

Regardless of where you reside in America, you cannot escape the tyranny of bad weather. Rain and snow can easily allow unwanted water into your outdoor storage unit – especially when you visit drenched from the rain or when you track crumbs of snow and ice into the unit. Excess water that makes its way into your unit can cause unnecessary damages. It's in your best interest to prepare your unit for bad weather, so you don't spend hours clearing the unit and cleaning up the mess.

One of the most difficult parts of moving house is the physically difficult job of moving heavy furniture out of your house, loading it onto the truck, and then unloading it into the new house. Ideally, you'll have plenty of friends or family to help you out on moving day, but that doesn't always work out. And if you're moving far away, you might have help available on one end of the move, but not the other.