Try Moving Yourself! by John Elie

Professional mover and project manager John Elie adds “author” to his resume with Try Moving Yourself! The Complete Self-Moving Guide for a Full Household Move, a thorough, essential, and easy-to-read moving guide.

This detailed manual is ideal for any family tackling the stress of a full-scale move and trying to save money. As Elie lays out, there are countless details to consider when executing a move – planning, pricing, packing, loading – and this book ensures that nothing goes unnoticed. Every move is different, presenting its own unique challenges, so for those who are new to full-home relocations, this comprehensive and logically ordered manual is a must read.

While logistics don’t often make for riveting reading, Elie writes with a conversational and accessible tone — authoritative, but also encouraging. The estimation tools, material analysis, planning stages, and in-depth guidance may be too methodical for some readers, but the layout of the chapters makes it easy to jump to the particular aspect of a move that may be more challenging. Most of the images scattered throughout the text are helpful, and while some sections feel redundant, that repetition of crucial information may be intentional, as certain issues could be overlooked during the stress of a move.

All in all, this informational guide may not be the most exciting read, but it is a money- and time-saving gem for those taking a big new step in their lives.