Moving? How to stay organized

(ARA) - The spring and summer months are known as the season of moving. College graduates relocate to begin new careers, families move to new cities or new houses because of transfers or the need to expand, and newlyweds are establishing their first home together - to name just a few examples.

Moving takes a lot of planning, especially if you're relocating to a new town or changing the size of your living environment. You need to plan for so many things such as self storage, a rental truck, scheduling friends or hired workers to help carry everything, completing the change of address notifications for all your utility bills, the post office, and your friends and family. That's not to mention the most time consuming part - packing up all your stuff.

One of the biggest challenges many families face when they move is attempting to fit all the possessions from one household into a new one. This is where self storage comes in handy. For example, if your family is moving from a townhouse in Ohio to an apartment in Chicago, you might not have the space in the new home or the rental truck to fit all the boxes of photo albums or the patio grill - at least not right away. In this case, you will want to find a Columbus, Ohio storage unit like Uncle Bob's Self Storage to safely protect your items for a month or longer while you get situated in your new home. You can get settled and return for the non-urgent (but wanted) items at a later date.

Uncle Bob's has over 350 storage and moving centers across the United States and also provides local truck rentals, packing supplies, and boxes for storage to help you protect your belongings. The company is offering a 50 percent off deal for storage units for the first month and a name-your-price deal for the second month that you rent a storage unit. These specials allow you to save money during your big move and to use that extra cash for other moving expenses that might pop up.

Keeping your move organized will help you make it through the entire process, so make sure you take notes on schedules, where important information is being packed, deadlines on bill payments, and other timely information that might be forgotten or lost during the busy moving dates.

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