Congratulations to everyone who got accepted 🙂 You guys will make great dentists!
Now, the next step is thinking about moving to your new state for the next 4 years! So many things to plan and think about. I thought that creating a thread where we idea-dump our tips and guides could be beneficial to some of us moving out of state (ehm, me 🙂). Let's start sharing our ideas to see how we can make this phase easier.
Military spouse here and self-proclaimed moving expert.
Haha. Here's what we do each time we move and it has made moving a lot easier on us:
1. Decide if you are moving yourself or having a company help you. Most likely you'll move yourself if it is just you! If a company moves you, begin an inventory of what you'll be moving and learn their policies if they break your things.
2. Go room by room of your stuff and go through
everything. Try and pair down as much as possible by doing a keep, give away/sell, throw away. No one wants to pack and move junk they don't need! Clean your items too, so that way they are ready to put away when you take them out of the box.
3. If you are moving yourself, ask around for boxes before you go buy some (that cost adds up quickly). Most likely there's somebody on Facebook (personal, garage sale site, community page, etc.) or Craigslist that has some that are in decent shape. Also ask for packing items like paper/bubble wrap.
4. Also, if you will be moving yourself, organize your keep things into a way that makes sense for packing. For example, all your fragile stuff, clothing, books, kitchen items, etc. into their own respective category. I'll assign a color sticker & label to each section and when you pack each into their boxes, label the box the same color/label (Example: red= kitchen, blue=living room, green=bedroom). It'll take a lot of chaos out of your moving day, especially if you have family helping, on where those boxes go so they all don't pile up in one area.
5. If a company is moving you, I suggest doing the color labels, as well. I'll tape a piece of paper with that color to its respective room and it's easy for them to see where each box goes. Our movers actually thanked us for doing this on our last move because they didn't have to ask me 1,000 times where I wanted stuff!
6. If you are renting, before you put anything into the house or apartment, do a walk through with the landlord and point out things that are scraped, dented, broken, need repair, etc. and snap a photo of them. This will let there be some accountability for the land lord if they don't fix said things or try to charge you for things when you move out.
I think that's all I have! I would hold off buying house hold things you may need until you move to cut down on truck space unless its at a killer price! Also, if you can go without a household item for a couple weeks, labor day sales will be right around the corner from most orientations and you may be able to grab some good deals!
