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You have made the decision to move.

You're downsizing, making your life more simple, giving yourself more time to enjoy life without having a huge house to clean and garden to tend, time to go away on those much-loved holidays.

You find your dream home on the beach, near the river, or in that fantastic Retirement or Lifestyle Village.

You're apprehensive? Maybe a little nervous? But you're EXCITED!!!!

You look around your home, sometimes your home of many many years and then it happens - THE EXCITEMENT suddenly changes and turns to a mountain of emotions, a mountain that you are not sure you can climb.

These emotions might be-

• Fear - maybe of the unknown, leaving the area you have sometimes lived in for such a long time, sometimes people wonder if they have done the right thing, made the right decision
• Shock - at just how much is to be done in usually a very short time, most settlements are around the 6 week mark, what only 42 days until moving day!!!!!!!
• Sadness - at leaving the family home, the special memories, wonderful neighbours
• Questions - will I have enough room to take the things I really want to take, what will I do with all the items I don't want and no one else seems to want, what happens when the charities I ring are not interested in the goods either, HELP - WHERE DO I START ??????

Welcome to the wonderful, exciting and unpredictable world of downsizing from the family home!

These are just some of the very normal emotions that our customers feel.

If you have got to this stage and you do not have the help you need from family because maybe they live too far away, they have work and/or young children or you just don't have any family. You don't want to bother your friends because they have their own busy lives, you are at your wit's end and you just want to hand the organising and phone calls to someone else - then call Lorraine at DOWNSIZING WITH EASE on 9748 8033 and make some enquiries.

More information on Downsizing with Ease - click here to go to the Downsizing With Ease website.

After the initial phone call, if you decide that you want Lorraine to come to you home for the consultation and to start work on your removal requirements, we can make a time and hopefully the start of your removal worries will start to disappear.

The initial consultation may take one hour to two, depending on what you need done. Then you leave it to us to make your removal as stress free as possible.

The consultation consists of discussing all aspects of your removal:

• We will discuss the furniture and household goods you need to take what you want to take and what you're not taking and what you're not sure of yet
• What you are looking for in a removalist
• What your budget is
• Suggestions to make your move more streamlined.

Within 2-4 days we will be back in touch by phone, email or mail with a copy of our suggestions for your move. We will come back and see you in 2 - 3 weeks and go over again what you are taking and make note of any changes.

We have several years' experience in assisting people with downsizing their homes, and offer practical advice and help - and a friendly face to make the move as easy as possible for you.

Of course we would love it if you used Ryde Furniture Freighters for your removal but there are times when we might feel that we are not able to be as competitive due to the area that you might be moving to, access and other possibilities, however we will do our best to help you source out the best removalist for your needs if we can't help you.

As an added bonus for using our consultation and removal service we will contact you weekly to make sure your on track with your moving checklist and help out with our expertise and advice where we are able to.