Moving to Tulsa--It's A Family Affair

By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group 

Toddlers

Toddlers and also preschoolers usually are not a great deal of help, however they are so fantastically occupied through unfilled cartons, rolls of tape, as well as bubble wrap that you really don't mind. Offer a four-year-old free rein with packing supplies and you can now push through their stuff prior to them getting uninterested and commence eating the packing peanuts. Seriously, provide your youngest children a carton and a little tape and get to work. Find out which toys they wish to give away to friends or share with other youngsters they don't know--it can be a small item that assists them to feel as though they may have a little say in the proceedings.

Elementary Age

When you have youngsters in this age category, they may be in the perfect place--old enough to be very helpful, but not so old that they've got robust sentiments. Here are a few duties a third grader can certainly complete.

· Look through their belongings and choose what to donate.

· Put boxes together, prepare packing materials, place color-coded labels on cartons.

· Put giveaway items in bags or boxes.

· Help empty out closets and also drawers to get ready for the professional movers.

This is a good age range to mention giving gently used toys and games to charitable groups, and also to talk about why you select the ones you do. When the non-profit you choose has a thrift shop, take your children in and let them see exactly what it looks like.

Junior High School

Pre-teens as well as teens are hypothetically able to really pitching in, but it usually takes a little creativity to make that occur. These kids are leaving buddies, sports, and school, and may be more interested in small-time sabotage rather than genuinely entering into the groove and packing up the basement. If you need to resort to bribery to get them on board, it truly is sort of a little cost to give.

· Offer to let them to pick the shade and pieces of furniture for their new bedrooms.

· Obtain their input on what they would really like to acquire in a new house. Clearly, they need to be realistic, however inform them their views matter. Inquire about yards (trees, playhouses, area for a swimming pool), basements, recreation rooms, as well as other items that could be on their wish lists. If you evaluate houses via the internet, show them what you like as well as what you do not--and talk about the reason why.

· Market unwanted things and divide the profits. Look at different selling sites to determine which ones are the most effective. A good number of websites require that sellers be 18 years of age, therefore you'll want to set the profile up and control the listings, but your teens could take the photographs, upload them, and compose the descriptions.

· Go the garage sale route and permit them to set up the tables and place price tags on stuff.

High School and College

These are the difficult years--it can be tough to move at any age, but it's extremely rough for high schoolers. The good thing is that although they're rather upset, they really are of sufficient age to do some hard work whilst they pout. Here are several items your teens can carry out to pitch in.

· Help with disassembling furniture.

· Smile and permit them to adorn their bedrooms completely like they really want. They are leaving soon enough, and you could definitely paint over their selection.

· Head up in the attic and carry stuff down--teenagers tend to be more nimble when compared with their parents (and most professional movers won't enter the attic).

· Drive loads of stuff to the second hand stores or even the garbage dump. Cover their gas and junk food in the process.

· Arrange trips back to visit pals or go ahead and arrange for buddies to come visit.

· Permit them to sell their own stuff online should they be over 18 years of age and keep the earnings.

· If you have a garage sale, permit them to handle the money and the online sales.

Be honest--if you've got children attending college, it's completely probable that you have already converted that bedroom into an exercise room or perhaps an home office. Whenever your college students are home on a break before you move to Tulsa, make sure they go through all their old boxes of stuff--you are going to still have to move them, but perhaps they will purge enough to cut back on the volume.