Product Description

If you are one of the forty million Americans who will move this year, you know the task can seem overwhelming. Now, there's help. How to Survive A Move by Hundreds of Happy People Who Did (and some things to avoid, from a few who haven’t unpacked yet), offers hundreds of helpful and entertaining stories on moving from the real "pros"—everyday people who have moved and survived to tell their stories.

"Moving is one of the most challenging things you can do: Take your daily life and everything that’s familiar, throw it all in the blender known as a moving truck, and see what comes out when you get to the other side. Yet it’s precisely what 1 in every 7 Americans do every year," write the book’s editors, Jamie Allen and Kazz Regelman. "We wanted to create a book that offered the best tips on everything from moving your pets to making friends with your new neighbors."

How to Survive A Move offers a truckload of valuable relocating advice, including:

• Packing Up—it actually starts with "trashing"
• Professional Movers vs. Inexpensive Friends
• Baby on Board—Advice for Parents
• Saying Goodbye to Family and Friends
• Pets—how to move a fish and calm a cat
• Settling in—getting unpacked and making your new place "home"
• Worst Moves Ever (what to avoid!)

Just in time for the busy summer moving months—when families with school-aged children are most likely to pick up stakes—How to Survive A Move offers quick tips for harried movers.

Unlike other moving books that give the opinion of one or two experts, How to Survive A Move includes words of wisdom from hundreds of people— both singles and families, nationwide—who have "been there, done that" (many of them have moved over a dozen times!). Millions of people have survived moving, and so can you!

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Product Details

Publisher	Hundreds of Heads Books
ISBN	0974629251
Format	Paperback
Author	Hundreds of Heads,Jamie Allen,Kazz Regelman
EAN	9780974629254
Label	Hundreds of Heads Books
Dewey Decimal Number	648.9
Studio	Hundreds of Heads Books
Number Of Pages	256
Title	How to Survive A Move: by Hundreds of Happy People Who Did and Some Things to Avoid, From a Few Who Haven't Unpacked Yet (Hundreds of Heads Survival Guides)
Publication Date	2005-03
Manufacturer	Hundreds of Heads Books

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Customer Reviews

Not really worth it.

Review by tootermonsters mom, 2010-07-26

I found about 2 things that were helpful in this book. Basically a list of peoples random thoughts and experiences on moving and a lot contradict each other so you don't know what to believe.

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A lot of things not everyone can use.

Review by John F, 2010-05-24

This book mainly consists of people's submitted advice and personal tips on moving. There are a lot of tips that are just useless or common sense. Also, many tips are just different wordings of the same tips or don't apply at all. For example, tips that just apply to only apartment or only house moving - not to mention whole chapters on moving with kids or pets. While they weren't helpful to me, they may be helpful to you so I gave it an additional star. While this book wasn't too expensive, I don't think I got my money's worth out of it.

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Great ideas for those with short attention spans!

Review by Monica A. Wiant, 2008-09-03

This book literally has hundreds of stories and ideas about moving. While some of the advice didn't apply to me, it was fun to read nonetheless. I love the first-person style and the different perspectives. Sometimes a suggestion will be juxtaposed with the exact opposite advice, giving diverse perspectives on how to solve the same problem.

The book is sorted into chapters, with special attention to topics such as moving with pets, moving with kids, and hiring professional movers. Very handy, because I'm about to do all of these things for the first time.

It's a great read if you're busy, scattered, or planning your move as a long, drawn-out process. It's very easy to pick it up, read a couple of pages, and then move on with your day. The tips in the book can also get you thinking, spark conversation with the family members who are stuck moving with you, and help you come up with your own creative solutions for moving problems.

And if everything goes wrong in your move anyway, there are plenty of laugh-out-loud disaster stories to remind you that it could, in fact, be worse.

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kinda funny, great for the novice

Review by Clayton Mceachern, 2008-04-17

Fairly impressed. It is a collection of anecdotes that help you avoid mistakes others have made and great ideas that could help

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Silly and superficial

Review by Nora A. Murphy, 2007-04-06

Yes, it was fun to read about other people's experiences. But I didn't find this book helpful at all in regards to organization and planning. It's basicially just a lot of tidbits from all sorts of people.

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