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October 18, 2022 Tips and Tricks

How to Keep it Together When the Moving Company Near You Sends Hotties.

You did everything right. You rented your moving boxes early and hired a great local moving company with plenty of lead time. You packed, you stacked and you prepped your soon-to-be-ex-refrigerator with water and healthy snacks. Your movers arrive on time and ready to haul, but the unthinkable has happened:...

September 16, 2022 Moving in Minneapolis

Why Minneapolis Is One of the Best Places to Raise a Family

“I know there’s no greater feelin’ than the love of family” – Steve Plunkett, Opening Credits, That TV show about Jessica Biel The Oxford English dictionary defines family as “a group of people related to one another by blood or marriage” and Minneapolis as “the largest city...

September 14, 2022 Moving Made Easy

How to Transfer Utilities On Time When You Lack Executive Functioning Skills

Executive functioning skills are the hallmark of accountants, business leaders and pretty people with good handwriting. Executive functioning skills facilitate the behaviors required to plan and achieve goals and include such skills as proficiency in adaptable thinking, planning, self-monitoring, self-control,...

September 8, 2022 Moving in Minneapolis

Where Should You Move? Minneapolis: It’s Easy to Get Around

You can work anywhere. You can live anywhere. You beckon the wisdom of the glowing sage we call Google. You ask them, “Google, where should I move?” This very blog appears. You click it. Weird – everything you’ve just read is exactly what’s happening to you. “If they’ve gotten this...

August 22, 2022 Blog Moving

These Are the Worst and Best Places to Find Moving Boxes

Moving is a whole thing, right? You have to find a new place to live. You have to let strangers look at the current place you live. And now you have to put all of your belongings in boxes to move them to the new place you’re going to live. So, after everything else, you […]

August 18, 2022 Moving Made Easy Tips and Tricks

You’re Moving Soon and You Need Boxes. Here’s What to Do.

Like most of us, you occasionally fall victim to procrastination. It’s now just a few days before your big move, and you need to cram all your stuff into some boxes, throw it on a truck, and get this stage of your life behind you. We’ve been there, and we feel you. If you’re ready […]

August 16, 2022 Moving Moving Made Easy Moving On a Budget

Ways To Bribe Your Friends to Help You Move That Aren’t Pizza or Beer

Throughout the history of man, the herstory of women and theystory of us all, people have gotten by with a little help from our friends. But the rugged individualism of modernity has displaced our innate desire to uplift our communities through unrewarded acts of service. Now it’s all, “what’s...

July 18, 2022 Moving Made Easy Tips and Tricks

Hot Tips For Avoiding Heat Stroke During Your Summer Move

The sun is a 4.5 billion year-old yellow dwarf star without which we would cease to exist. The sun is also an oppressive ruler that won’t let us look directly at it, and threatens us with a host of punishments for staying too long in its presence. We are unwitting members of the sun’s cult, […]

July 12, 2022 Blog Moving

How To Pack Glass Safely

When preparing for a move, the trickiest part of the house to pack is the kitchen. The kitchen is home to many fragile items, from dishes to glassware, so it is important to take caution when packing these items–that is if you don’t want any of them to be broken by the end of your […]