Reliable Downsizing Services for Seniors

As a move management company, Brilliant Moves provides guidance throughout the moving process as well as downsizing services for our clients. Downsizing can be a daunting task. Moving to a new and often smaller place necessitates the need to condense belongings. For those with collections or sentimental items, downsizing is especially difficult. Brilliant Moves provides techniques and tips to make the downsizing process an easier one.

How to Downsize

1. Ask Yourself These Questions

Do I use it? Do I love it? Do I have room for it?
2. Sell, Give, Donate, or Discard

Make sure everything you sell or give away is in good-to-excellent condition.
3. Plan Time to Downsize

Depending on how much you have accumulated, downsizing can take weeks, months, or longer.
4. Get Help If You Need It

While family or friends can be helpful with downsizing, sometimes it is best to work with an objective professional, like Brilliant Moves, with no emotional ties to your belongings.
5. Evaluate Your Need for Temporary Storage

Sometimes moves happen suddenly and without adequate time to truly downsize. In such an instance, consider renting temporary storage, and make a plan to complete downsizing after your move.

Tips for Downsizing

Downsizing is something everyone needs to do at some point. At Brilliant Moves, we know this can be an emotional journey, as many people feel sad or guilty about letting go of sentimental belongings or family heirlooms. Letting go of things that no longer serve a purpose can be freeing, and you may find joy in donating items to help others. Through our downsizing process, you may also develop a greater appreciation for the things you keep.

The downsizing process takes time, effort, and thought. Our downsizing services from Brilliant Moves provide tips and support to help you:

Determine an item's usefulness to you
Give away, sell, or donate items
Recycle whenever possible
Discard items that cannot be donated or recycled
Evaluate the potential need for additional storage space

After the Move

Rely on Brilliant Moves for assistance after your move for things like:

Donating your unwanted things
Cleaning out your old home
Disposing of items that cannot be donated

Additionally, our crew can provide information for other resources, including :

Realtors
Estate sales
Donation organizations
Trash haulers

What to Expect

We Manage Your Move

Because Brilliant Moves is a move management company, we provide more services than typical movers. Our crew will sort and pack, diagram floor plans, manage the move, unpack, and set up your new home.

We Love What We Do

Brilliant Moves finds satisfaction in helping to reduce the stress of moving for seniors and their families. We truly enjoy seeing each of our clients smile when they walk into their new home and see it all put together.

We Unpack and Organize

Much of the stress of moving comes from unpacking and organizing the new space. Brilliant Moves takes care of all of that. We place everything where it’s most accessible and familiar, so you can settle in quickly and easily.

We Work with You

Every senior’s moving experience is different, and that’s why we’re here. Our Brilliant Moves crew is ready to develop a moving plan to provide the services and resources that best fit the needs of you or your loved one.

What People are Saying About Brilliant Moves

"We hired them to move our dad to memory care and it couldn't have gone better. They completed everything in one day - even hung all his photos. When he arrived, he was overwhelmed with gratitude. I would highly recommend them!"

Barbara C.
"Brilliant Moves is brilliant. Holly and David are amazing and clearly master movers. Besides orchestrating a seamless move (even though there was a snowstorm) they are compassionate and caring. They took the time to hear what my parents wanted and what was important to them. They measured the new apartment carefully and the furniture in the existing home to help guide the decision-making process. Our family is so thankful that Holly and David helped to ease the transition from a house that our parents lived in for 55 years to a senior living apartment. When our parents walked into the apartment everything felt familiar and a bit like home. I highly recommend Brilliant Moves."

Bonnie W.
"Holly and her team are expert movers! They moved my dad from assisted living to memory care and knew exactly what he needed and didn't need. They also moved his extra items to my house and took some things for donation. It was so easy for me and seamless for my dad. I would highly recommend them and would definitely use them again!"

Stephanie S.
"We have worked with Dave and Holly with Brilliant Moves on 3 moves. 2 with my parents and one with us. They were so helpful in every way possible. Planning the furniture layout, putting everything away, hanging pictures, TV's, setting up my Dad's computer. They even hauled stuff away that we couldn't sell or donate. Do yourself a favor if you or a loved one is moving, talk to Dave and Holly."

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Nancy S.
"David & Holly have a unique ability to take control of the entire moving process from start to finish in a manner that is both low key and efficient. In my mom's move, there were some aspects that involved difficult "entities" but there no hesitation from David in resolving these issues. Everything was attended to until my mom said she was satisfied."

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Jim Z.
"David and Holly went above and beyond in every conceivable way! The move went quickly and smoothly--the team packed the house in record time, and it's hard to express how comforting it was to walk into the new apartment with all the furniture already arranged and the boxes gone! They were also spectacular with managing the hundreds of small glitches that inevitably arise in a move--including having an extra long HDMI cables to connect the TV where we wanted it, rather than where the cable box was located!"

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Amy A.
"David and Holly are absolutely amazing. My family needed to move our Dad asap from an assisted living unit to a memory care unit b/c of Alzheimer's and it was becoming increasingly unsafe for our Dad and David/Holly saved the day and moved his stuff and made his new memory care unit look amazing. They were absolutely life savers and went above and beyond to make my Dad's place look perfect. Thanks again guys!!!!"

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Courtney C.

Reliable Downsizing Services for Seniors

How to Downsize

1. Ask Yourself These Questions

2. Sell, Give, Donate, or Discard

3. Plan Time to Downsize

4. Get Help If You Need It

5. Evaluate Your Need for Temporary Storage

Tips for Downsizing

After the Move

What to Expect

We Manage Your Move

We Love What We Do

We Unpack and Organize

We Work with You

What People are Saying About Brilliant Moves

"We hired them to move our dad to memory care and it couldn't have gone better. They completed everything in one day - even hung all his photos. When he arrived, he was overwhelmed with gratitude. I would highly recommend them!"

Send us an email:

info@brilliantmovesmn.com

Give us a call:

612.605.7303