[Maedchen]

Be prepared to be exhausted! To me, the short moves are the most deceptively tiring moves!

Since things are not going to be in storage, I found using my linens to wrap things in for the short move was the easiest because basically you can just take dishes out and put them in the cabinet without having to do all of the washing. YOu are basically transporting them out of the cabinet into the next...........so take as many shortcuts as you can.

We just moved the children's clothing in the drawers from one house to the next.

If you are going to store things in the condo down in the basement of the house, You will want Rubbermaid boxes so they do not attract bugs like cardboard boxes do, so you might want to go and invest in those and put things like Christmas decorations in them and they stack well. (They won't be too heavy)

I loved the labels and then the doors of the rooms being labeled at the new house. This way you don't have to be everywhere at once. If you are moving over the course of a couple of days, you could possibly just load your car up with the immediate dishes and put in place before the big move day.

I would use my reusable grocery bags to bag up the fridge items to transport in the car. (You could use laundry baskets to transport the pantry items andput in place before the day of the big move.)

Taking all of that into account, you make many, many car trips to help cut down on the cost of the movers having to pack and unpack.

Congratulations on the new house!