So you have finally moved into your large house filled with dreams and a lot of boxes.  It is at this point that you need to get everything planned properly to avoid excessive labor.  Hopefully before you have moved you have implemented some kind of key code that can be used on the boxes to locate specific items and link them up with specific rooms.  Also the movers should have moved the boxes to their planned locations as to avoid carrying them around yourself. You don’t want kitchen items in the lounge, do you?  It never works and can be a bit unsafe.  Unpack your breakable items first or put them in a save place before your helping hands start helping.  You don’t want to worry about your helpers breaking your precious items while your busy hanging the curtains.

Get the kids involved or if you still have friends after the ordeal of moving invite them for a barrel of Kentucky.  Normally family members will be happy to help for a meal of course.  Many people think that this is the ideal time to do some ‘interior decorating’.  Believe me you will be too exhausted to worry about creative thoughts on interior decorating.  Get everything in place first and then work from there. It is also a very nice idea to paint the rooms the color you want them before a week before you move in.  If not then you will make your work load more and you will end up cursing after a month with no results.

The first important room that needs to be arranged is obviously the bedroom.  It is important to be able to sleep after your hard day’s work.  Get the bed sorted out and then move to the lounge area. From here on it is a systematical process of arranging items where they belong step by step.  It is not always easy to give advice on how to arrange things in your own home as each person is unique in this sense.

During the next few days it is time to get the necessary paperwork sorted out to make you really settle in.  It is time to locate the important services like Hospitals, doctor, police and even the post office near you. If you found a doctor you should go and update your medical records immediately. Take a Sunday cruise and find these places, if you don’t know where they are yet.

It is now also time to discover when the sanitation company comes and collects the trash as not to be stuck with a filled trashcan when you need it the most. You will also have a load of boxes to get rid off in any case. The most important part of your list of administration duties is to get the kids into the right schools and start to find a carpool.  Now everything might sound like common sense but once the pressure is on everything will not work out as they were suppose to.  Get a notepad, write down things you must do step by step as this can help a lot.  It is very important to not rush everything even when you feel like it at times.  Take it easy, plan and then organize.