Getting Rid of Home Office Items

Series Summary

Packing and moving is about as much fun as doing taxes, but unfortunately it needs to be done. The sooner you start the easier it can be. Organization is the key to any successful move. There is nothing like the dread of walking into a friends apartment the day they have to move and seeing everything in shambles. Save you and your friends the aggravation and pack early. In this free moving video series, get expert tips for packing and moving a home office two weeks before a move. Make your move lighter by learning what to get rid of while packing. Learn how to keep filed papers in order, what items to keep at your disposal for the next two weeks and pack decorations. Our expert discusses how bags are useful for keeping items organized and packing labels and other office supplies. With some simple planning, packing a home office will be a breeze.

Video Transcript

"So we're looking at what kind of things that you can pack two weeks out, and right now we're going to be looking at moving your office and packing up your office. So the first thing that we kind of talked about in the "General Tips" section is to get rid of things that you're not using or that you don't need or don't work, and that's kind of a standard for packing any room or packing anything. You don't want to pack things that you don't need, it's just extra weight. So something that I can do, this is where I keep a lot of my supplies that I use everyday, and I can go through these baskets and try all the pens because the last time I did that was a year and a half ago when I moved into this place. So I can try all the pens and if they're not working, throw them out, if I don't want them or if I never use them then give them away, donate them, find a friend that needs them. And do that for all of my supplies here. And then, of course, I have other places where I keep supplies that I'll want to do the same thing with. In this basket here I keep supplies that I don't use necessarily on a daily basis, but I might find something in here that I just don't need anymore or that something that broke and I just stuck in this basket because I didn't know where else to put it and it's time to get rid of that thing. So I can pretty much do that for all of these spaces, including my files and my papers, and my materials that I use for projects. I might find materials that I used for a project a year ago and I don't need them anymore, I haven't used them in a year, so I can get rid of those so I'm not having to pack them. And in terms of the files and your papers, going through those things, and again, just getting rid of things that you don't need anymore."