Three R's

Ah yes, the mountain of garbage created when moving is crazy! And it is all so voluminous. When my company headquarters moved 18 months ago we stuck with the 3 R's (Reduce, Re-Use & Recycle)to steer us through the moving wasteland. We had already reduced much of the paper files in our office into electronic bits of info by scanning and routing incoming mail on a daily basis over the last 5 years. So the heavy, clumsy files just didn't exist. In an effort to Re-use, we kept boxes from our move 5 years earlier using them for this move and we also re-used our modular furniture setup and retrofitted it to the space rather than buy new. Recycling took on new meaning because we moved an old warehouse that had been recycled into a high tech office building. We also recycled boxes, moving paper and old office equipment that we no longer needed rather than sending them to a landfill. The end result was that we reduced our moving expenses by about 20% and reduced our hassle factor by about 50% by moving with the 3R's in mind