As your (technically) adult children move out of your home and go off to college, you may be wondering how you are going to get all of their stuff out of the bedroom. You may even be dreading the boxing and packing up process. If you would rather have someone else do most of the work to transition your child from post-high school to the college dorm room, you are in luck. Here are the ways in which local moving companies can help.
Packing up Your Child's Room
Most moving companies offer extra bodies and helping hands to pack up and box up belongings. If you take full advantage of this moving service, you never have to sift through your son's or daughter's vast poster collection or wrap up every award they ever won. The movers carefully take everything down and wrap it in protective layers before placing it in a box. You can even ask the movers to lable every box so your college-bound kid knows exactly where to find everything he or she wants.
Moving All the Boxes for You
Rather than rent a trailer or a moving van and driving it all the way to your son's or daughter's college, the movers can take all of those boxes they just packed and put them on a moving truck for you. You do none of the heavy lifting, you will never go up and down the stairs in a dorm or an apartment building and you never have to worry about returning a rented trailer or moving vehicle on time. In fact, by hiring the movers to haul all of your kid's stuff across the country for you, you can actually get on a plane and fly to the city nearest the college and fly back when it is convenient.
Putting Unnecessary Stuff in Storage
Even though your college-bound kid wants to keep a trunk of toys he or she grew up with, it is very unlikely that he or she wants to take them to college for the next four years. Anything your son or daughter does not want to go to college with him or her but still wants to keep the movers can put into a storage unit for him or her. A small self-storage unit works best for extra stuff from a single room, but you should ask the moving company in advance if they 1) offer self-storage as a service, and 2) if they have any smaller units available until your child either graduates from college or moves into his or her own apartment.
For more information, contact a company like Bekins Van Lines Inc.
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