Hi everyone. I’m Alejandra from Alejandra.tv and in this video, I’m going to share with
you easy tips for unpacking and setting up your new house once you go through a move.
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All right. So when it comes to unpacking and getting organized, it can be really overwhelming
because all your stuff is packed into a box and you have to unpack everything and set
up your whole house all over again. It’s a lot of work. My husband and I just moved.
So we’re doing it right here with you one box at a time.
All right. So I’m going to give you four tips for unpacking. The first tip is to start
in the highest priority area. So just like your last house got packed one box at a time,
your new house has to get unpacked one box at a time, especially if it’s just you or
your spouse or your family unpacking all your boxes.
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to start with the bathroom. So there are three
high priority areas in any house. It’s the kitchen. So you can have stuff to cook with
and be able to make meals and stuff. It’s the bathroom. So you can get ready in the
morning and then it’s the bedroom for sleeping and getting dressed in the morning.
So we’re going to start in the bathroom here. I have a box here and we’re just going
to start unpacking and putting things away. I’m just going to show you that it’s so
easy. It doesn’t take up that much time and you feel so good whenever you see an empty
box and you just – you got a lot of stuff done.
All right. So the first thing is just take one thing out and put it away. So which brings
me to tip number two. Tip number two is to keep if functional. So it’s really easy
to start unpacking things and trying to figure out the best place to put things and try and
figure out like the perfect organizing system.
But your goal right now is to just set up functional systems. Just get everything out
of a box and into a place. Once your whole house is set up, that’s when you can make
time to set up organizing systems that fit you and your family.
But right now, just focus all of your energy and all of your effort on getting things out
of the box and into a home. So I’m just taking things out and putting things away
in a spot, not necessarily a perfect spot. All right. And then the next tip is as you’re
unpacking boxes, figure out if there are things that you don’t need, use or love. So you’re
going to purge. So hopefully when you packed all your boxes, you went through your items
and you only packed the things that you use, need and love, so you’re not moving extra
stuff, spending more money buying more boxes and just overall using more energy.
But if you didn’t, now is the perfect time to go through and pull something and ask yourself,
“Do I use this?” If you don’t use it, you don’t need it and you don’t love it,
set it aside. Start a box of things to give away and only put away the things that you
actually use, need and love.
So I’m just going to go through and ask myself. All right. I don’t need this. Put
that aside. Then only put things away that are really needed. All right. So this box
is getting empty very fast. If you feel really overwhelmed, just grab one box and just get
started. It doesn’t matter if you have 100 boxes. Don’t think that you have 100 boxes.
Just take one box and just focus on that one box and you’re just going to feel so much
better when you just start small as opposed to looking at the bigger picture of every
single thing that has to get done.
All right. So I’m putting things away and I’m looking here and I’m like, “This
doesn’t really look very nice.” Things don’t really look that organized but again,
my goal is not to get organized right now. It’s to get organized, to unpack boxes,
make it functional, but not to feel perfectionistic about finding ideal homes right now.
All right. Now the whole box is unpacked. That was fast, easy and I feel so productive.
So now, the next tip, the last tip is take all your boxes that you just unpacked in the
space that you just did and put them in one central location like the garage, the basement,
maybe an empty room that you don’t know what you’re going to do with it yet and
then have one person be assigned to box breakdown duty. They can just break down all the boxes
and then once you have all these boxes that are broken down, then find someone who needs
the boxes.
So, maybe put an ad up on Craigslist. See who’s moving. See who can come by and pick
up free moving boxes and then the last tip right here is this box was like five or six
inches high and what I did was I just took the flaps. I stood them up. I took tape, went
around the edges and I instantly doubled the height of this box to make it for taller bottles
or whatever.
Anyway, that was just a quick tip. I hope you found this video helpful. If you’re
moving, you’re unpacking or if you’re not moving, you just have boxes sitting in
your basement, take one box. Unpack it and you’re going to feel amazing. I hope you
found this video helpful. If this is your first time watching any of my videos, you
can subscribe for more tips on getting organized or check out my website Alejandra.tv for more
tips, tools and training on getting organized and living a more productive life. Thanks
for watching and I will see you soon. Bye.