Taking Your Relationship to the Next Level: Moving In Together

Deciding to share the same address with your sweetheart is a milestone moment in any relationship. Romantic considerations aside, the challenge of combining two households worth of stuff into one new place can be daunting. The Shleppers team have helped hundreds of couples merge their lives with our professional moving services. Here’s what we’ve learned that makes the process easier:

Communicate Constantly

Moving is a very stressful experience for some people. There can be a lot of emotion involved with leaving a familiar address, packing up one’s things, and going out of a door for what you know is the last time. Add to this the emotions that can come with ‘officially’ moving in with a sweetheart – a mix of excitement and anxiety – and the entire process can become very fraught quickly. The best counter to this emotional whirlwind is constant, calm communication between both parties. Talk to each other frequently. Be honest about what you’re feeling and experiencing, and work together to help make the move as pleasant as possible for both of you.

Nobody Needs Two Coffee Tables

Any time two households combine, there are going to be duplicate items. You both had a coffee table, but do you need two coffee tables? Probably not. Take a complete inventory of both households and compare item lists. Deciding which of the duplicate items is going to make it to the new address can be a learning experience: if no one has any emotional attachment to the item in question, it can be easy to choose based on condition and style – but when that ugly lamp came from a beloved Great Aunt, things become more complex!

Measure Before You Move

The time to discover your gigantic bedroom set is just too large for your new bedroom is before you move your gigantic bedroom set! Shleppers recommends measuring everything, including your furniture and the dimensions of the room it is moving into. Take note of the position of any windows or doors that will impact how you place your furniture. Use graph paper to figure out how your furniture will fit in the room. This will help you avoid very stressful last minute decision making – you’ll know exactly how you want the movers to set up your furniture, and you’ll be sure that everything will fit!