Double It

The best advice I can give to anyone moving is to plan out the time and resources you will need and then double it. I gave my two weeks notice a month before the move date leaving me two weeks to spend time with family and friends and pack up the house. In practice, four weeks were needed. I planned one day to load the truck and clean the apartment, but it took two days (and that was with my husbands entire family helping). We leased a 16' truck which was recommended for a 2-3 bedroom house, but we filled up the whole truck with our two bedroom apartment and that was with selling off our washer/dryer, bed frame, coffee table, desk, storage bench and two chest of drawers. Everything I planned needed to be doubled.