The Art of Happy Moving

How to Declutter, Pack, and Start Over While Maintaining Your Sanity and Finding Happiness

By: Ali Wenzke

Narrated by: Amanda Ronconi

A comprehensive, upbeat guide to help you survive the moving process from start to finish, filled with fresh strategies and checklists for timing and supplies, choosing which items to toss and which to keep, determining the best place to live, saying farewell and looking forward to hello.

Moving is a major life change—time consuming, expensive, often overwhelming, and sometimes scary. But it doesn’t have to be! Instead of looking it as a burdensome chore, consider it a new adventure.

Ali Wenzke and her husband moved ten times in eleven years, living in seven states across the U.S. She created her popular blog, The Art of Happy Moving, to help others build a happier life before, during, and after a move. Infused with her infectious optimistic spirit, The Art of Happy Moving builds on her blog, offering step-by-step guidance, much-needed comfort, practical information, and welcome advice on every step of the process, including:

• How to stage your home for prospective buyers
• How to choose your next neighborhood
• How to discard your belongings and organize your packing
• How to say goodbye to your friends
• How to make the transition easier for your kids
• How to decorate your new home
• How to build a new community
• And so much more.

Ali shares invaluable personal anecdotes from her many moves, and packs each chapter with a wealth of information and ingenious tips (Did you know that if you have an extra-large welcome mat at the entrance of your home, it’s more likely to sell?). Ali also includes checklists for packing and staging, and agendas for the big moving day.

Whether you’re a relocating professional, newly married, a family with kids and pets, or a retiree looking to downsize, The Art of Happy Moving will help you discover ways to help make your transition an easier one—and be even happier than you were before.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Very helpful

Extremely thorough in all aspects of life during a move for the whole family and pets

Maintaining emotional health while contemplating a move.

I expected more practical details and direction for packing up a home. A lot of the book is directed at mental and emotional health about moving.

Great guide to making your move better - happier and cheaper!

Great way to adjust your attitude and save money (for example, her suggestion to look on NextDoor for boxes got us all of our boxes and paper for free!)

Helpful little book

I have moved a lot and it’s always a little bit awful. I’m eager to use these new tips to make my move better. Some of the information in this book is sort of repeating info I already knew but I did appreciate the decluttering and box packing tips and how to make new friends. Over all it was good book and I would recommend it.

Enthusiastic and Empathetic

Realistic look at what it takes to get organized to move and get settled into your new home and town. Pets and children sections can be skipped if they don’t apply. But overall good solid book the helps you tackle your move!! Thank you!!