Whats next?

You've taken care of the cleaning and made sure that all the toys are put away. Next I suggest you start packing up your stuff. You are moving so lets get started so you don't have so much to do when you get a contract and have a short time frame to move. I suggest you go to Walmart or Target and get some plastic bins. We will start filling those along with some cardboard boxes for garage sale or give away stuff so the amount of stuff to finish packing and move will be less. We will need a staging area--a place in the basement (or a spare room) to start stacking the boxes we have ready to move and another place to stack the garage sale boxes until we have enough for the garage sale. The boxes we are going to move need to be labeled
what is in them and where they came from and where they will go in the new house if you know. (ie: towels and grandmas china from the hall closet--to the new hall closet) I took the movering guys by the hand and showed them which room was which when we moved and said if it says living room, that is here, and if it says Robs room, that is in here. Then each box was in the room it was to be unloaded in and it made it so much easier for me to find the stuff I needed when I was ready to unpack that particular room. Buyers understand you are moving and will overlook a neat stack of bins. Our goal here is to make your closets and bookshelves neat and clean and not like there is a lack of space. It also makes your home easier to keep clean and neat. When my dad moved I would clean out a cupboard and then he had a bin where we packed the stuff that went to his new place and the rest went in a box to get ready for the tag sale he had to get rid of the rest of the items he no longer needed.