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In this moving video, I’m giving you 4 tips for easily unpacking boxes so you can have an easier, less stressful, and less overwhelming move into your new home!

I hope you enjoy this video!
Alejandra



Moving Tips – Unpacking Boxes

Hi everyone. I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.tv and in this video, I’m going to share with you easy tips for unpacking and setting up your new house once you go to move.

But first, if this your first time watching any of my videos, you can subscribe to my free video series for three tasks to do tonight to wake up feeling more organized tomorrow morning. There’s a link below.

All right. So when it comes to unpacking and getting organized, it can be really overwhelming because all your stuff is packed into a box and you have to unpack everything and set up your whole house all over again. It’s a lot of work. My husband and I just moved. So we’re doing it right here with you one box at a time.

Tip #1 – Unpack High Priority Areas First

So I’m going to give you four tips for unpacking. The first tip is to start in the highest priority area. So just like your last house got packed one box at a time, your new house has to get unpacked one box at a time, especially if it’s just you or your spouse or your family unpacking all your boxes.

Moving Tips - Unpacking Boxes from #AlejandraTV

Moving Tips – Unpacking Boxes


So what we’re going to do is we’re going to start with the bathroom. So there are three high priority areas in any house. It’s the kitchen. So you can have stuff to cook with and be able to make meals and stuff. It’s the bathroom. So you can get ready in the morning and then it’s the bedroom for sleeping and getting dressed in the morning.

So we’re going to start in the bathroom here. I have a box here and we’re just going to start unpacking and putting things away. I’m just going to show you that it’s so easy. It doesn’t take up that much time and you feel so good whenever you see an empty box and you just – you got a lot of stuff done. So the first thing is just take one thing out and put it away. So which brings me to tip number two.

Unpacking Tip #2 – Make it Functional

Tip number two is to keep if functional. So it’s really easy to start unpacking things and trying to figure out the best place to put things and try and figure out like the perfect organizing system.

But your goal right now is to just set up functional systems. Just get everything out of a box and into a place. Once your whole house is set up, that’s when you can make time to set up organizing systems that fit you and your family.

But right now, just focus all of your energy and all of your effort on getting things out of the box and into a home. So I’m just taking things out and putting things away in a spot, not necessarily a perfect spot. All right.

Unpacking Tip #3 – Purge as You Unpack

Moving Tips, Unpacking Boxes - Purge unneeded items as you unpack

Unpacking Boxes – Purge unneeded items as you unpack

And then the next tip is as you’re unpacking boxes, figure out if there are things that you don’t need, use or love. So you’re going to purge. So hopefully when you packed all your boxes, you went through your items and you only packed the things that you use, need and love, so you’re not moving extra stuff, spending more money buying more boxes and just overall using more energy.

But if you didn’t, now is the perfect time to go through and pull something and ask yourself, “Do I use this?” If you don’t use it, you don’t need it and you don’t love it, set it aside. Start a box of things to give away and only put away the things that you actually use, need and love.

So I’m just going to go through and ask myself. All right. I don’t need this. Put that aside. Then only put things away that are really needed. All right. So this box is getting empty very fast. If you feel really overwhelmed, just grab one box and just get started. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 boxes. Don’t think that you have 100 boxes. Just take one box and just focus on that one box and you’re just going to feel so much better when you just start small as opposed to looking at the bigger picture of every single thing that has to get done.

All right. So I’m putting things away and I’m looking here and I’m like, “This doesn’t really look very nice.” Things don’t really look that organized but again, my goal is not to get organized right now. It’s to get organized, to unpack boxes, make it functional, but not to feel perfectionistic about finding ideal homes right now.

Unpacking Tip #4 – Get Rid of the Boxes

All right. Now the whole box is unpacked. That was fast, easy and I feel so productive. So now, the next tip, the last tip is take all your boxes that you just unpacked in the space that you just did and put them in one central location like the garage, the basement, maybe an empty room that you don’t know what you’re going to do with it yet and then have one person be assigned to box breakdown duty. They can just break down all the boxes and then once you have all these boxes that are broken down, then find someone who needs the boxes.

So, maybe put an ad up on Craigslist. See who’s moving. See who can come by and pick up free moving boxes and then the last tip right here is this box was like five or six inches high and what I did was I just took the flaps. I stood them up. I took tape, went around the edges and I instantly doubled the height of this box to make it for taller bottles or whatever.

Anyway, that was just a quick tip. I hope you found this video helpful. If you’re moving, you’re unpacking or if you’re not moving, you just have boxes sitting in your basement, take one box. Unpack it and you’re going to feel amazing. I hope you found this video helpful. If this is your first time watching any of my videos, you can subscribe for more tips on getting organized or check out my website Alejandra.tv for more tips, tools and training on getting organized and living a more productive life. Thanks for watching and I will see you soon. Bye.

About Alejandra

About Alejandra

Since 2008, organizing expert & certified life coach, Alejandra Costello has taught thousands of students in 132 countries how to get organized through her video-based training programs. Her YouTube videos have been viewed 100+ million times. Named 1 of the 5 most organized people in America by HGTV and “The Decluttering Queen” by Good Morning America, Alejandra’s expertise has been featured in The New York Times, Oprah.com, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Good Housekeeping, Family Circle, Woman’s Day, Parents Magazine, and CBS. 

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