Deciding to move is one of the most stressful choices that we can make. Unless we are accustomed to rapid change, it can easily be the hardest thing that many of us have ever done. This is especially true when the move is unexpected, or it is unavoidable. Junk King is rated as the nation’s #1 junk removal company because our services were created with the customer in mind; when you get ready to move, call us first, to help you take just the important things, to your new home.

Removing Junk Before You Move? – Junk King Gwinnett is Your Answer

The reasons for moving are wide-ranging for all people. Usually, these include anything from family-related issues to employment opportunities, housing options, even college, health reasons, or natural disasters. In 2019, a study was done looking at 3 million moves that had occurred in 2018; 45% of those respondents (1,350,000 people) reported that they moved ‘unassisted’ by movers. This should not come as too much of a surprise, given the stereotypes surrounding hired movers. Things like broken lamps, shattered picture glass, busted furniture—it all plays into those stereotypes, which further parse the relationship between movers and normal people.

Moving is Stressful

One thing that the survey did not look at though, was the relation between movers and stressed homeowners. The stereotypes placed on professional movers are directly related to that 45% of respondents who chose to move by themselves, although the exact number is harder to identify. Homeowners don’t want their belongings busted up, and if they think that movers might damage things, they will go in alone. This is where it is important for the layperson to know the difference between professional movers and removal businesses like Junk King.

We Take That Stress Away with Your Junk

At first, the similarities may be overwhelming—strangers coming to your home to remove items, then taking them away to be seen again later, or not. The difference between Junk King and professional movers is that Junk King was created with service and assistance in mind. Should that 2019 study have asked about the percentage of people who used junk removal services in their moving plans, a good portion would probably have answered negatively; the reason for this would be partially due to unfamiliarity with removal services, and partially because of the movers’ stereotypes, lumping removal services into the same category.

2021’s moving trends are more significant than any year before. Between 14 to 23 million people will be moving to find more opportunities for work, and to find more space away from cities. If you are one of these millions of people moving soon, don’t take on all of the stress related to moving by yourself. Call on assistance from Junk King to help you.

Tips to Help You Cope with the Move, From Junk King Gwinnett

Junk King was created with an emphasis on customer service and assistance. Apart from our extensive knowledge about item removal and recycling, we also know a little something about how to best cope with the stresses of moving and changes. All moving events will have both a mental and a physical element to think about, so we’ve curated a small list of helpful tips for both of those aspects. Our commitment to assisting you is a serious one—and the goal of these tips is to provide a little bit of that assistance to you directly.

Pace Yourself

First, let’s consider what we can do from a mental standpoint. Packing up is going to bring on a lot of change, and that will cause a lot of mental stressors. Psychology Today is one of the best online sources to find help when it comes to stress and regulating it—here are our favorite tips from their suggestions.

– Start the process early: If you know that you will need to be out of your current home by a certain date, start the entire process earlier than you think you need to. Doing this will let you take your time, which is a large factor in how you process the ‘loss’ of your home, but it will also let you think about what sort of help you will need along the way. If you know that you have a lot of junk you no longer want, or you know that there will be large items you do not want; take some of the stress off of yourself and give us a call for assistance in that junk removal.

– Leave your essentials until last: This may come as an obvious tip to some people, but it would depend on what you consider essential. Your most used clothes should stay until last, of course. Most used items should wait too. Additionally though—and often overlooked!—are those things that give you some stress relief. If you are a meditator and you require a setup to best do that, save that stuff for some of the last things to be packed. This way you can continue to find stress relief as your packing continues.

Do Not Overwork Your Body

Next, consider what you need to help your body through the moving process. Your mental attitude will likely change from day to day, but your body shouldn’t suffer because you did too much. Moving is one of the most physical events in everyone’s life, so make sure that you approach it in the right way.

– Don’t push yourself or your family to move faster: This goes hand in hand with the ‘start the process early’ tip above. Everyone will process the move in different ways, sometimes this includes a mild grieving process, characterized by disinterest, laziness, even an outright refusal to move (often from young teens). The worst thing that can happen is everyone coming down to the wire and then getting hurt because they are pressed for time. Give you and yourself the time and the ability to go at their own pace—it’s important.

– Make plans before you go: Moving is hard, but one of the most exciting things about it is that there are new experiences waiting for you. From new events and new opportunities to new friends and new places to explore—if you take the time to look around your future environment and make plans for when you move in, you’ll be excited about the future and that will add some motivation to your steps. Additionally, making plans also involves planning out some of your moving days. Save things like furniture days for early on in the weeks, when you aren’t yet tired. Also, consider the best time to call out a dumpster or a full removal team from us; if you plan it out, you can make the most out of the time we (or our dumpsters) are with you.

Your Gwinnett Junk Removal Services; Junk King is The Best Removal Option for Movers

Movers of all types call on Junk King for removal help. Our options were created to offer the best sort of assistance that can be offered for junk removal. Many residential movers choose one of two options available to them: either self-service or full removal service. Both options come with huge benefits, and both are affordable aid for all households.

The self-service option provides homeowners with a roll-away dumpster for a series of days. Our roll-away dumpsters are miniatures, enabling them to fit snugly into any driveway. At the same time, they are large enough to take away your largest furniture and items. What makes our self-service even better? You only pay for what you use of the dumpster; you fill it up halfway and only pay for the half that you used. You can even keep it a few extra days (just let us know beforehand!).

The other option available for residential movers is the full-service removals. This consists of a team of people from Junk King arriving with a dumpster to your home—and then helping you fill it with anything and everything. Much like those professional movers discussed before, our team is there to help you through the process; and unlike them, we serve our customers with the utmost of care and diligence, even when removing junk from your home. Get the most out of our time with you by planning what should go with us and what can be removed later. This is the least stressful of the two options, but it doesn’t give you multiple days to think about what to get rid of.

Junk King Gwinnett Serves Commercial Customers, Too

Residentials aren’t the only people who can call on Junk King to get help with removals. Businesses are some of the biggest clients that we help. There is a lot that needs to be removed when moving offices, shops, commercial equipment, foreclosures, storage facilities, or just flat-out construction. Junk King is everyone’s one-stop shop for junk removal, and you can read more about our commercial junk removal, on our business-to-business removal page.

Turn to Junk King Gwinnett When Packing to Move to Your New Home

Contact us today to see what options are available for your special situation. We have four avenues to reach us, so pick your favorite and have all of your questions answered.

Call us at 1-888-888-JUNK to speak with a representative to get a quote; text us pictures of your junk to 737-888-5865 to receive a quote for your removal; call us and schedule an appointment for our assessors to come see your junk in person; or go online and play with our custom-created pricing estimator.