Sadly, there are many factors that can cause stress during a move. Choosing a house can be very stressful, and it's easy to get confused by the endless paperwork, deadlines, and coordination of property transactions. Worst of all, even if you have done all this, it might still feel nearly impossible to move if you still have to organize the move yourself and think about moving all your belongings from your old home to your new home, potentially thousands of miles away. And for those who have lived in their house for decades, dealing with so many old belongings can also be a complicated and difficult task. For those feeling the stress of a move, hiring a professional organizer can be a great solution.
A professional organizer is precisely what the name implies: someone trained to help others organize their lives, like Marie Kondo, star of the popular Netflix show "Tidying Up with Marie Kondo". Thanks to the success and popularity of professional organizers, professional organizing is becoming increasingly in demand as people spend more and more time at home. Professional organizer help moving a wide range of services. For example, as well as helping you organize your things, they also help organize documents and other aspects of personal life, such as planning meetings, as well as teaching you the best organizational techniques. Professional organizers are trained professionals who can help people effectively organize all aspects of their lives.
A professional organizer can, for example, help you organize your home and prepare it for a move, helping you ask the important but sometimes hard questions like what do you want to keep? what do you want to move to? what are you donating, selling, or getting rid of (or otherwise)? They'll help you decide what to get rid of and what to move to your new home with. Using their skills and training, professional organizers can help you decide what things will be suitable for your new home, and especially what will make you happy.
For many professional organizers, this training comes from the National Association of Productivity and Organizing Professionals, also known as NAPO, which trains and certifies Professional Organizers. With training, NAPO-certified professional organizers can provide the highest quality of service to their clients and represent the gold standard of professional organizing. That is why Sunbound is proud to be an official business partner of NAPO.
The first advantage of hiring professional organizers is that they bring tried and true organizing methods to the table to help you tackle your move in an organized and streamlined fashion. A professional organizer uses reliable methods to sort all your belongings efficiently. This gets rid of unnecessary items, and it also makes the moving process more accessible as you can organize everything for packing and subsequent delivery. Professional organizers also sometimes work with your movers to ensure that everything is packed and ready for a quick move on moving day. Many professional organizers will also unpack and organize your belongings in your new home. With the help of a professional organizer, you can get back to living your normal life from the moment you arrive in your new home.
The most straightforward and compelling reason to organize yourself before you move is that it can actually end up saving you a lot of money. Most professional moving companies base how much they will charge you on two main variables: how far they are moving your things, and how much your things weigh. Therefore, the easiest and sometimes the only way to reduce moving costs is to reduce the number of things you’re putting on the moving truck. In fact, we hear from professional organizers that they routinely save their clients hundreds or even thousands of dollars on their moving bills by helping them to efficiently get rid of unwanted things. Many times, hiring a professional organizer moving can end up paying for itself. By only taking the things you love, you'll not only have a cleaner and fresher new home, but you'll also save thousands of dollars during the move.
Professional organizers generally charge for their services by the hour, generally charging between $50-$150 dollars an hour, although this will depend both on the services offered and the city or state they’re being offered in (as prices change around the country). So depending on how big your home is and how many rooms the professional organizer will be helping you go through, professional organizers can end up charging between a few hundred and a few thousand dollars for helping with a move. However, another thing to keep in mind if you want help with professional organizing but want to keep your bill low is that often times professional organizers will offer more hands-off, advisory services to help you plan and think about your move while limiting their own hours on the project (and therefore your eventual bill). Oftentimes, this can be done via video call, letting you easily and conveniently get expert help at the push of a button.
Whether or not you want to hire a professional organizer, it's essential to take the time to get things organized before you start packing. In our experience, it's a good idea to start by deciding what to keep, what to throw out, what to give away and what to donate. Once you have made these decisions, you can group and label similar items to make it easier to unpack and organize them when you arrive at your new home. Trust us, you won’t regret taking the extra time to get yourself organized before you start packing for your move.
While moving can be stressful, it's also an excellent time to organize everything you need for your next step in life. Taking advantage of this opportunity can bring significant benefits as you start out your retirement journey.
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