I recently moved to a new city for work, to Chicago, from Philadelphia.
Moving to a new city is daunting and requires some planning if you don’t have acquaintances in the city you’re moving to.
There are two important things in this transition, Packing + Shipping followed by Setting up you new place with a proper checklist.
Packing Luggage:
- I had like lot of stuff since I lived in the old place like for close to 3 years.
- I had to dispose my mattress, as I couldn’t carry and it’s not easy to sell unless it’s in a great condition.
- I used facebook market place to sell stuff like Office Desk, Chair and Monitor.
- I had couple of cooking utensils which I wanted to take to new place, so I used USPS boxes (free) and shipped utensils, pen holders and other miscellaneous stuff.
- I used another great service to ship my luggage called Lugless to ship one of my luggage, since I didn’t want to have my handsfull at the Airport.
CheckList:
- If you’re moving to a new place, start looking for affordable apartments, I was able to find one on Zillow, I got the virtual tour, but lot of my friends suggested me to visit the property atleast once in person before committing to a lease.
- I made following checklist for my new place, it’s quite a long list, consider this list if your apartment is unfurnished like mine, these are the items in the decreasing order of priority.
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| List |
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| Bathroom Tissues + Kitchen Rolls (Bounty) |
| Mattress with Pillows |
| Door/Floor Mats |
| Water Filter |
| Bathroom Plunger/ Cleaner |
| Broom with Dustpan |
| Office Desk - Table |
| Laundry Pods |
| Cooking Utensils |
+-------------------------------------------+Places to See:
- Cloud Gate (Bean)
- Lakefront Trail — Lake Michigan
- SkyDeck
- If you’re an Office fan, there is “The Office Experience”
- Architecture Tour (Preferrably in Summer)
Consider having an Electricity and Internet connection prior to your move in day.
