#moving

#moving

Before you start opening boxes, take time to clean your new home from top to bottom. Even if the previous owners or builders cleaned before you arrived, dust and debris can easily collect during open houses or construction. Wipe down shelves, cabinets, and counters, and vacuum or mop all the floors. It's also a good idea to sanitize bathrooms and the kitchen before putting items away. A freshly cleaned space gives you a blank slate, and an empty house is easier to clean than one that has already been fully furnished.

That was the mindset I had when I decided to take a job opportunity in Pittsburgh and live alone for the first time, shortly after graduating from Syracuse University. Although I'm used to pushing myself outside my comfort zone - I moved halfway across the country for college and studied abroad alone - this move felt different. My friends were supportive, saying that if anyone could move and start over, it'd be me,

An obsessive, tortured domesticity runs through the fiction of Claire-Louise Bennett. The narrator of "Pond" (2015) forms an uncommon attachment to her seaside cottage: she takes great pains with the arrangement of her breakfast and her garden, organizing crockery "into jaunty stacks along the window ledge" and spending a memorable chapter on the deteriorating control knobs of her mini-kitchen. "Checkout 19" (2021), by contrast, is haunted by the absence of a proper home and the despair of unbelonging.

The mom of three sons - Calvin, 8, Oliver, 5, and Rusty, 4 - posted a carousel of images on Instagram on Oct. 23 showing Dylan repainting the room from olive green to a more neutral color. She also included sweet shots of the boys in their bedroom (including their massive triple bunk bed!) through the years. "This room holds a lot of memories and I thank God every day for each and every one of them," she wrote in the Instagram caption. "And the boys have a whole lifetime of love and dreams ahead of them! Just not in a triple bunk bed!"

Looking at rentals after my divorce, all I could see was expansive space - so much for my daughters and me to fill. But when I found the perfect location, I knew it was time. We craved that space, as overwhelming as it was - space to call home, space to furnish. I reminded myself of the potential and signed the lease.

It's August and my mom is moving. My dad passed away a little less than a year ago, and after a slog of a winter living in the house they once shared, Mom decided that she wouldn't tolerate another one. So she found a townhouse close to my sister's house: small, airy, and bright. It was perfect. It was also empty.

As someone who just moved into a new house, I know how hard it can be to stay organized. From packing up your old place to trying to decide what to keep and what to toss, moving can get super-overwhelming - fast. On top of that, when you load all your belongings into identical-looking boxes or bags, unpacking gets confusing. That's why when I came across this TikTok video by Emma Villaneda (@thecraftstudioco), I wished I'd discovered it a few weeks earlier.

Ariana Biermann and Hudson McLeroy moved into their new NYC apartment weeks ago, just one year after relocating from their hometown in Georgia.

I use thick-tipped Sharpies to write on the sides and tops of the boxes, using labels like: Shelve, Store, Autographed, or Book Fairies.

Data shows that Americans move 11.7 times on average throughout their lifetime, making moving to a new home a nearly universal experience that most of us can identify with.