Can Home Moving be Cheap?

Besides your time and effort for packing, moving home can be potentially quite expensive if you’ve not done your budgeting or looked at your options.

With all these considerations in mind, do consider saving money by doing things yourself. It affords you better control of where your money goes and if you have the time, you’re going to be able to take things slowly and carefully; the DIY way is just as good a way of moving your items.

There are a number of different areas which you can look at the ensure that you keep your costs low for moving, and you can use that savings to get some new furniture, or do a little more touching up of your new bathrooms or even just buy yourself a celebratory beer when everything has been done and dusted.

1) Look out for peak period pricing

Sunny and long days in summer are in high demand, because everybody has the same idea to make a house move while the sun shines. Many people will avoid the winter period because of the high humidity although prices may be relatively cheaper. Consider moving on a weekday and in the beginning of the month and away from public holidays to make use of the discounts that moving companies give for not moving on a peak day.

2) Recycle your packing material

Packing boxes have normally supplied by the moving company, but at a price. See if you can get your hands on any from items you’ve purchased or even at your local grocer, stationery store and supermarket. Markers and packing tape may also be cheaper in bulk, so keep an eye out for stationery sales.

Plastic Packing Boxes or containers may be a good idea too and especially if you own a good number of them. You can even save time by packing your plastic contain exactly how you would in your new residence or office and moving them right into place. If not, hiring plastic boxes may be an economical, convenient and environmentally friendly way of going about it too.

3) Plan your trip from here to there

The easiest way to save costs on travel and transportation is to have a good estimate of how many items you need to have moved. The more items you have, the more trips you’ll have to make. And that in turn means more petrol and more expenses.

Depending on the amount of things you have and if you’ve got a drivers’ license, you may want to rent a vehicle for the day - a truck of a station wagon so that you can take things on your own time and load up your things carefully before transportation. You can also opt for a moving company whose services normally include movers who will help you to load up the container. There are also companies which allow you the flexibility of a no frills service that helps you with transportation only.

4) Rope in everybody to help!

If you’ve done your calculations and you’re short just that little bit of space or you need someone to come help you with that bulk fridge, don’t hesitate to call your friends and family in to help. Many hands make light work you know. Just make sure to take that money you saved and share some of the celebratory beer around when the day is done and everything is at your new place.