As June nears its end, this is a time when students will be thinking about moving out or leaving university altogether. This could mean that you have four years’ worth of stuff to get back to your hometown and decide whether to donate or to get rid of it altogether.
Moving can be incredibly stressful, as you want to ensure that you leave yourself enough time to do it correctly.
Here are some of the best moving tips and tricks to ensure that you pack away your room and university life effectively and efficiently without getting too worked up and stressed.
Set a moving day and a cleaning day
For most Uni students, they will be renting from landlords or agencies. This means that they would have put down quite a hefty amount for their deposit.
As a result, cleaning and ensuring that you leave the house in the same way that you found it can make or break whether you get your deposit back or not.
Setting a different cleaning date for your moving day will ensure that you don’t feel overwhelmed. This is also important so you don’t tire yourself out!
Both packing up and cleaning are huge jobs that need to be taken slowly throughout the day, instead of trying to rush them in the last couple of hours of your tenancy. Splitting up cleaning duties with your other housemates can ensure that one person is not left to everything, as a problem halved is a problem shared.
Organisation is key
Make a to-do list before the last week of Uni and slowly do each job. That way you ensure that you don’t forget everything of vital importance.
One day you could start packing away your clothes. Next, you can start taking apart the bedside tables or draws that you wish to take back to wherever you live. The final day of your tenancy can be the bin day. This is where you either donate or throw away things that you no longer need or things that you don’t want to bring home.
Sometimes having a clear-out can make you feel less stressed as you aren’t transporting things that you no longer need.
Remember that this can be done with food as well. Food banks take donations as well as institutions such as the Salvation Army. Donating your tins of food instead of throwing them away can make a big difference and will reduce the huge amount of waste in the food industry. Clothes can be given to charity shops or sold on sites such as Depop or eBay.
Make sure you get some boxes and bags to be able to carry all of your things instead of trying to pack it all into a car. Put all of your room things in one bag, clothes in another, your shoes in another, and your kitchen appliances in another. Sectioning off your items will then make it easier to find what you need when you start to unpack.