 Before y'all say it, before y'all say it, wait a second. Let me explain. Hey y'all. If you're new here, my name's Akira Jenae. Don't forget to subscribe and turn the phone off before you leave. So, yes, this is going to be the start of my new moving series. So I guess this will be moving series four on my channel, four on my channel. This will definitely, I don't care. I know I didn't say it this before in the past, but I promise you, this will be my last move. Not planned. This whole process leading up to finding an apartment and like getting an approval and stuff like that has been the worst. Like the most stressful process of my entire life probably. So let's get into it. Straight to the point. If you don't want to see this part, this is really an obey for like my returning subscribers. If you're new to my channel, I would like for you to stay and watch this part to kind of like understand what's going on here because I do have three other series prior to this. But yeah, I would like for you to listen to this part really quickly and then we're going to jump into like the packing process and stuff like that. So obviously you guys know before I moved here, I had a two bedroom, two bath apartment, but it really wasn't luxury per se. So I wanted something more upscale, a little bit more luxury. So this apartment definitely meant that like I got a fireplace. I got a Bluetooth vanity mirror in my bathroom. Like you can go watch this vlog to like look at this apartment if you don't know where I live. So I got my luxury apartment period. Okay, cool. So I'm here living. Everything's good. Honestly, the apartment like I really don't have any complaints. The number one reason why I'm moving is because I need more space. I know when I moved from my two bedroom, I said I missed the cozy-ness feel of a one bedroom. I really did. But people grow. We grow. I grew. I have a lot more stuff. I now have my own business of selling raw hair. So I've been needing a lot of space for like all my shipping supply, my business desk, like all my business stuff. And it's kind of like overflowing in my one bedroom. So the number one reason why I am deciding to move is because I need more space. I need that extra bedroom still. So that's the main reason. The second reason is because I'm really tired of construction. Y'all know my last apartment was construction going on. I cannot deal. I'm a night shift worker. I sleep during the day. They are doing construction out here from seven o'clock. They're supposed to stop at five o'clock, but sometimes they be out here until like six, seven o'clock. And I have video proof to prove that. So that's annoying. But I mean, it's not really just a deal breaker. Obviously the construction isn't going to last forever. And I mean, I've been dealing with the construction for about six to seven months now. So that's what I'm saying. It's really not that big of a deal. I've learned to kind of sleep through it at this point. But that's the reason too. And the third main reason is because this apartment complex is really, really money hungry and they like to micromanage. So by being money hungry is no one knew they were supposed to build these apartments. And then I don't know where boom tear down our trees and by the start building more apartments, which cool. Okay, whatever. But they're building them so fast that like my apartment isn't like 100% like top notch. Like there's some stuff that went wrong in my apartment. If you remember that vlog where my whole shower door like fail. So stuff was not put together right. But anyways, every single month I've had some type of fee on my account where there'd be like we got a valet trash service. So if you don't put in your trash can before nine o'clock in the morning, then basically you're going to get a $50 fine. Okay, cool. They give no warning, no anything every single time at $50 right off the bed. And y'all know I work night shift sometimes I don't like I don't leave work until you know seven something get some breakfast do this do that like you know life happens. And they don't care like they don't want to hear any excuses they don't want to they don't work with you like they're just not really I don't think they're like a people person you know like especially the new manager here just to do not like him at all like really not finding him. So that's another reason why I'm moving because they charge fees for everything I was mopping my floor put the trash can outside of my balcony they saw it literally charged me $50 because we have no carpet. So I'm mopping my entire floor doing a deep clean and then y'all want to charge me $50 for putting the trash can outside for maybe like 10 minutes like I swear to you they will charge you for eating everything out here piggybacking off of that is there's no parking I will probably put in video overlays and stuff like that or what I'm talking about like the construction the way they're building the new apartments is literally right in front of us right in front of the parking spots we have no parking I literally got a text from my manager last week my boyfriend was here he parked in the front which is strictly for residents okay cool but there is literally no other parking and he literally was parking there just until another one freed up so he parks right there I get a text Akira can you please tell your guests to move how do you know it's my guests first off like why are y'all watching me so much you know and I'm walking on the sidewalk with my dog and then he's like oh hey you know you're from apartment blah blah blah blah and I'm like how do you know that like obviously they know who lives here but it's like how do you just specifically know where everybody stay and it's just a whole bunch I can get into about that but the number one reason I'm moving is because I do need more space okay my new apartment is going to be a two bedroom too bad I'm going to have a obviously master bedroom with the closet and stuff so I'm going to have a closet in my room in the guest room and I'm also going to have like a big kind of like co closet at the door and I'm also going to have a patio storage four different storage areas that I can store things and then I'm also going to have a full own room to be my business office in my like YouTube studio room so as you can see I'm literally recording in my living room sometimes I just got to record anywhere like I have I don't have a designated spot to record like when I got to do sit-down portion sit-down videos trial trial halls anything like that I don't have space and then obviously like the dog it's just a lot I've outgrown this place I have no more space to do anything in here with so with that being said you guys can see the boxes behind me I did go ahead and already go to Home Depot and I bought eight boxes it was like $17 and some change with tax I went ahead and bought boxes this time around I've never bought boxes before I usually get them from my job my mom's job someone usually gives me boxes but I wanted to go ahead and buy the size medium because the ones at my job they're not really guaranteed and the ones that I get from my job I'm going to show you they're not really a good size like they're either huge or small sometimes I get looking get like a medium box but they're usually just not the right size so I did get about four or five boxes from my job this is what our gowns come in from when we got to dress dress out for contact patients and stuff so this is how big this box is it's definitely long but it's not that deep so stuff like this is what I put my bathroom items in and like makeup some of the things that you don't want to break like a lot of my glass items so I don't have like a big box of glass it'll be kind of like a smaller box of glass so this box obviously isn't about to hold much of anything like this is how big this is compared to this one so that's why I went ahead and went to Home Depot to buy that I bought a few other items that I'm going to go ahead and show you anything that I say I got from Amazon will be linked down in my Amazon storefront this box cutter is from Amazon and then to make this move since the move like process like the actual approval part and finding an apartment and stuff like that was so tedious and so stressful for me I didn't want me moving out to also mimic that so I want this move to be as stress-free as possible and as smooth as it possibly can go so from Amazon I bought this two pack of rolling dollies I saw this one girl on YouTube her brother had helped her move and I saw the brothers they were using these little rolly dolly things so mine came in the two pack for like $40 hopefully they're pretty sturdy so I'm going to be upstairs again in my new apartment so with my couch I'm going to wrap that up in everything instead of my boyfriend and his friends and stuff and my friends like just carrying it because I got to go down like a hallway to get to my apartment they can just put the couch on this and just roll it into the apartment and like down the hallway so I bought these hopefully these help honestly like the guys they can like stack boxes on top of one another and like just will it in so I think these will come in handy um I probably won't keep these um you know Amazon you can return stuff so as long as they're not like too dirty and stuff like that I might honestly return them after I move because I don't really see myself actually really using these again so yeah I may do that um yeah I don't think I don't think I'm going to need these again for anything and plus I have a washer and dryer like my own washer and dryer so that's going to be pretty heavy and that's why I kind of wanted to minimize the stress on them and all of that so this one is what I'm going to wrap everything in I decided to get a big roll of stretch wrap it's 15 inch wrap with a pair of handles and I think it's like 1200 feet long this is how it looks easy grip two-sided I am going to be wrapping my bed like not my mattress but my actual like bed frame and the platform and all of that I'm going to be wrapping my couch and my dresser and everything that I don't know then mention those scratches and stuff on so I already had a little bit of this little wrap I just call it some wrap but plastic wrap I bought it last year but I didn't use it because I bought it kind of at the last minute and they already put everything on a U-Haul so this time I wanted to be so prepared and I got this big old thing of plastic wrap so I believe you just put these in like this oh yeah and then put this side in all right and then I'm literally just going to wrap everything and the other thing that I got today from Amazon isn't really specifically to help me move it's something that I want to put up in my apartment once I move and I wanted to go ahead and open this to make sure everything's in here and everything is right instead of waiting until I move and then having to reorder this if something didn't deliver correctly so I finally went and bought a ring doorbell I'm super excited I've been wanting a ring doorbell for a minute so I just got the ring doorbell this is the um this is the one that doesn't need a wire so this is the one that like runoff batteries or whatever and then I decided to go ahead and get the one that you put on your door like that and this is the one where people can't steal it so I'm super excited I'm obviously not going to set it up here at my new place um because I am going to be moving on like four or five days so I'm super excited to put this together it's going to be like the first thing I do on Wednesday and yeah that's my little Amazon haul now we're about to get into packing and then I'll kind of explain some more stuff on probably voice over as I'm packing so you guys can really understand kind of what's going on this is how my vanity looks um basically basically what I'm going to be packing excuse me it's everything that's in these drawers but that's what I was thinking like should I really take everything out the drawer or should I just leave everything in the drawer you know and just because there's wheels on here so it can be rolled and then like two guys or maybe like depending on if I pick this up and it's gonna have to be two of us but if like my boyfriend or whatever they can just pick this up and then I can just like saran and wrap this you know so I think that's maybe what I'm going to do but like this stuff right here I'm going to like pack and put into something I am going to take out my everyday like make a routine because I did throw on like a little bit of stuff today so yeah I'm just going to get to packing I'm going to pull out the makeup that I would wear like on an everyday basis and then I'm going to take down the rest of all of this stuff so I think that's what I'm going to do like I don't think I want to take everything out of here because that's going to be a lot especially because like everything already organized but here's the thing I don't know if I'm still going to even use this vanity because I'm going to have my own um like guest bathroom and so like all of this stuff can just go in the guest bathroom but for the time being I honestly think I'm just probably going to tape the drawers closed and saran wrap this because once they take it up the stairs they literally can just roll it into my apartment so that's what I'm going to do. Rolling up all last year that I used maybe just a little bit of stuff like this and I'm about to dump this whole thing out and literally you know pack this so I'm about to saran wrap it got these from my own business but these are free on the USPS website and I got at least 50 of these so since these are bubble in the inside what I'm going to be doing during this move is cutting these in half with this. Notice I didn't close out the other day today is Tuesday for 11th it is 10 o'clock in the morning right now don't mind my hair it's crazy um I didn't do anything to it but just unwrapped it today but I woke up this morning I've been up since like 5 30 so I went to my parents house got some boxes that my mom got for me and then I got my totes so right here these are all the boxes that my mom has so I'm glad I didn't buy any more these two boxes are still well this one box I have to fill and then I have three more home depot boxes and then my mom got me all of these and then those are three totes down there so today from my little moving plan list um I called in to work yesterday and then Sunday I literally didn't pack anything so I still have my kitchen to finish my living room bathroom literally everything so today I did pack the dog stuff yesterday though or last night so I need to mark that out so I did my vanity stuff the dog stuff um right now I think I'm going to work on my office stuff and packing up my business stuff to kind of get that out the way and then I'm going to start working on my clothes I also went to take Oreo to my parents house because he follows me around like crazy Prince due to sometimes with Prince who's just chilling kind of do his own thing Oreo on the other hand he literally follows you at the back of your heels and does not let me do anything so I took him to my parents house so he over there having fun with grandma and grandpa okay period and then I got Prince here just because you know usually sometimes to be a lot with two dogs so I didn't want to just throw both dogs over there on them like that so I kept Prince this time and took Oreo the past two times I used to take Prince to my parents house and then I would keep Oreo so we kind of like wrote it rotated this time so yeah I'm going to try to get a lot done like I said it's only 10 o'clock took this from my mom's house my parents house a little shower catty y'all why do my mama buy like 10 of these she said they were on sale for like a dollar or two why did she buy 10 what what could she possibly be using this for so they're just all sitting in the guest bedroom at their house but I decided to put my cleaning stuff in here tomorrow I'll go to the apartment get my keys pay the rent stuff like that so I just put all of my essential cleaning stuff in here because I don't know about y'all but when I move even if they said they clean I'm still gonna clean so these are like the cleaning products I got I got a big thing a light saw in the bag I'm also gonna be taking my vacuum cleaner my swifter mopper and the swifter like sweeper so we're gonna get to cleaning tomorrow but for today I don't want to bore you guys too much because I think when I was editing this vlog I already had like 25 minutes of just packing the kitchen and stuff alone so I'm just about to show a little bit more bit a little bit more bits and pieces of me like packing up the rest of the place so I'm about to go ahead and start on like I said all of my business supplies like the shipping stuff and then all of like the office stuff school stuff anything like that I'm gonna start packing I'm also gonna put that in a tote I find that putting it in a tote is a little bit more secure and it doesn't really like it isn't too heavy when I put all that stuff in the toe so I'm about to move all these boxes out the way and put them to the side I mean where the fuck should I really even start I got holes that I'm keeping in the dark I got my niggas cross large this literally still has the label from when I moved like last year school stuff and it says heavy so I'm just gonna keep it in there this is all the stuff that I'm gonna be packing for my like office supplies and then all the stuff under here and then the rest of my office stuff will be everything that's over here so this little office stuff just all of this this is like office and business I'm not taking none of this out this is all like my inventory and stuff so I'm just gonna take these and then I'm gonna plastic wrap all of that and then this is the rest of my business stuff so I'll probably just pack all this into a box because I want these cubicles clear and then this is my hair like this is the hair that I had in my head um I just shampooed and conditioned it and it is back to its original texture I had this hair in since January and it literally looks as good as new so I was just letting the air dry so I'm going to be taking this rag down and everything and then we're going to start on doing these clothes or tj max one of them just says trust in the lord with all your heart proverbs three five this is what I keep sunglasses and other little delicate stuff in this is literally just a random box I just liked what it had said but these aren't really my colors anymore like I'm not trying to have pink anything but this is a jewelry box I'm just gonna put that in here let's see if I can get in here these shoes is on the back of my door I'm about to put in this big box right here so all loose shoes is going to go in this box I have some loose heels right here um I'm also going to put all of my purses in there I want to stack the purses on top and then my hat is also going to go in that same box and that should take up Dana in this whole box probably if it doesn't then I will just add maybe I'll add some shoeboxes in there here and then we'll just stack that up these can be thrown out I don't know why I'm keeping these freaking toms like I haven't wore toms since I was in high school maybe I wore these like freshman year of college so that's like 2016 2015 like girl why am I still hanging onto these beat up toms like they are dirty I don't even know like does anybody wear toms comment down below if you still wear your toms girl this just ain't the I can't even fit these no more child yeah these are going in the trash I can't even put them on my foot this is when my foot used to be like really really skinny and had no meat on my bones so yeah I can't even put it on my foot so these are trash Akira give thumb and trash so that's trash pile these heels are actually my best friends but whatever these sandals are from charlie roose like am I really gonna ever wear these again like why do I have this I need to go sandal shopping though because you know summer is coming up and girl I need some more like flip-flop sandals and stuff like that I can still fit them but they just be down like here you write them back shoes these are still in pretty good shape it's just they're really really flat but I'll keep them I may need them these I would probably never wear again charlie roose is that story we're still open they closed ours down so they went bankrupt so I don't know let's see if I can fit these I may take these to play though take these to play those because these are still in pretty good oh these are pretty good shades Bonnie it's just who who's really still wearing shoes like this though you know maybe I can wear them and keep them for church yeah I'm gonna keep it for church you never know I'm definitely gonna keep don't care how dirty they are got these from pay less when I used to work there in like 2018 so I absolutely love these these shoes withhold anything you know you know take these to play those because I don't even like I'm not wearing these again I got them because Rihanna but you know these from my photo shoot but can't fit them got them from she and and they're like a size too small so I'm about to take these to play those too okay so I am cutting up those mailers again like I did previously in the video I am putting that over my glass I'm putting that over kind of the sensitive pieces in the sensitive spots of my furniture to kind of protect that so with doing that I am also wrapping it in the plastic wrap this particular past plastic wrap is from Walmart so I wrapped it in that and then I'm also going to be unscrewing this taking the top off and then I'm going to have the pieces separate so it can be moved really easily because I don't want to put the whole thing into like the moving you haul or whatever like that wanted to be as careful as possible this time I also wrapped a blanket over the glass just to protect it and I honestly may just transport this glass in my car like in the trunk and just be really really careful with driving and stuff and then put more blankets on the bottom in the top of this so I think I'm going to be transporting all the glass in my apartment just to be on the safe side just like this one take the glass off I'm going to also I'm not going to wrap that one because that one's pretty small I'm just going to put it in a blanket then moving on to this finally figured it out okay period talk to me nice so after I wrap this one in plastic wrap I am taking the same bubble miller taping it to the corners um the corners usually are the places that get hit and scratched up the most and with putting this on the bottom it kind of gives it a cushion to where I can like easily slide it around the room so I feel like this will help the moving process and make it so much easier so every time I move I always do the trash bag tricks so I have five right here we're going to see how many trash bags it takes to load up all my clothes I'm going to start from winter clothes with this bag here and then come all the way up here with I do got some jackets and stuff up here but I'm going to start from the back and then come up because these clothes are a lot thinner so if I need to I can just fold these up and throw these in a box because I will be taking my clothes to the apartment tomorrow so I'm going to immediately take them out as well maybe we'll see but yeah I have five bags I forgot to get some big bags for my job so that I could only probably use like three but we want to see how many I could fit in these update it is 6 29 in the afternoon I took a little like two hour nap so hold on I'm getting the phone call okay I look ridiculous I'll probably throw in my wig tomorrow because baby I just can't like my hair is not done but I just wouldn't kind of cleaned out my card I'm about to go ahead and put these clothes in my car to have it ready and packed for tomorrow morning this stuff down here I'm about to go through um I am going to have like a big bag to take the play-dohs but some of this stuff I've been taking like two and three times and they haven't did anything with it so the rest of the stuff I'm just going to throw out in these wig boxes like one two three four five six seven eight nine ten and I got another one out there I'm about to try to consolidate that and only have like maybe four of those and then once I get these clothes and stuff out here I feel like that'll free up a lot of space the next thing that I'm going to put in my car excuse me um I kind of want to go ahead and take my living room tv it's the smaller one I don't really think I'm going to buy another tv because I don't really sit in my living room but if my living room was like more cozy than I probably would see in it but I'm just going to go ahead and take that tv probably and put that in my back seat or I could wait to take the tv and then just load up all the other stuff so I plan to have me, Emmanuel, Josh and Jenae so that'd be like four cars maybe three because Josh ain't trying to drive so I don't know that's what I'm trying to plan and see because if I put my tv in my car then I'm going to have to use somebody else's car to put all the other stuff so yeah anyways these two boxes right here are clothes that's all of my purse accessories and stuff like that so I'm definitely going to need some more cars to put all of this stuff in because mine isn't going to fit all of this I'm about to go ahead and load up my clothes like I said and then whenever they get over here then I'll load up their cars for whatever I can fit honestly so my plan for my shoes I'm going to keep them in the shoeboxes for right now I know people it's either you like to keep shoeboxes or you don't there's really no in between I feel like and I happen to be one of the people that actually keep the shoeboxes in the new place I don't know I'll see if there's like a way that I can maybe buy some extra storage or I may keep them in the guest room or something but for right now I'm going to keep them in the shoeboxes until I kind of find a way that I would like to store them like I seen this one cool thing on amazon so where it's like a swivel type thing and you just put the shoes in there like it takes up less space because it's kind of like in a circle and you just spin it around um so yeah and some of those are heels like I think I'm going to try to find some cool cute way to like display my heels or something but for right now what I'm thinking is I'm going to take these boxes stack up about um four or five and then I'm just going to like plastic wrap them so literally they're like stuck in place so like these four Nike ones I'm going to take wrap a saran wrap and just do it like that instead of wasting a box because they're already in a box and I mean I don't really have too many more boxes to be wasting and I think it'll be more efficient to actually put them because like these boxes are small like these ain't about the whole none of that and then even I can put some in here I don't have a top for this one so I mean they're just shoes so I feel like this will be okay for some of them I'll probably put I don't know I'm going to stack a few in here fill this up and then we can just take this bin but I think it'll be more space saving like in the car wise because I'm not going to have a you haul or anything tomorrow this is just me and my friends cars like just regular cars and really they're not big enough for all this like we got no issue being no truck right now so I'm going to put these smaller Nike boxes um my Puma's and like some of the small heel boxes right there those white ones I'm going to go ahead and put those in that little tote and then the rest like I said I'm just going to stack about four or five up how they already stacked surround wrap them plastic wrap them in we're good plastic wrapping all of my shoes I stacked it up in a tier of five boxes this literally made my move so much easier just moved all these boxes yesterday girl chef's kiss definitely do this with your shoe boxes it makes it so much easier and it protects all of them so they don't tip over you'll see me kind of show you and test it out good morning um I am now in my new apartment as you can see it kind of looks a little bit different behind me okay period um if you're new here hey my name is Akira Jenae don't forget to subscribe and join the family before you leave don't know if I'm starting this is a new blog or put this into one but whatever so we're here um I kind of wanted to while I'm here it's 10 o'clock two in the morning I got here like eight about like 8 30 and then I got in here within like 30 minutes so pretty quick um little transition I guess um I did bring my cleaning supplies my everything that I need and then also they give you a checklist to feel like I got 48 hours to return this the tail whatever is you know broken or anything needs to be fixed any scratches bumps dumps whatever you write up on there and then she also gave me the stuff to set up for my alarm system and everything like that so just all the setup stuff um you won't be seeing the apartment in this vlog I know y'all gonna be mad but the vlog that'll be out on Sunday will be my empty apartment too I plan to post this vlog that you're watching on Thursday so tomorrow um Wednesday the 13th I mean Thursday the 13th so yeah that's not that you guys know I'm in here I am after I end this vlog I am literally about to start recording for the next vlog I'm about to show me cleaning the apartment and stuff like that it is 10-03 so I really only got an hour to like clean as much as I can because I do got to go meet with the cardiologist um at 11-15 which is only like five minutes of the road but hopefully I'm not in there for a while so that I can come back and like finish cleaning and then go to the old place and pack my car up again so I had all of this stuff in my back seat and then in my trunk I got like five bags of clothes that I gotta bring up so yeah it just it's an echo obviously echo but it just already feel like home I know I know I know y'all be whatever yes I'm living here I don't care say what you want I don't care it's my money I'm living here that's what I thought but this one I already you know walked through prayed over the apartment in the apartment about the you know just all of that um I do hope this will be home for the next couple years until you know I get a house or whatever me and bae eventually get married and stuff like that so this one is more than enough space get a little sneak peek or whatever but like I said I am in a two bed too bad like everything is just big in here so I have a lot more space to work with so super excited um yeah I think this video should already be pretty long enough um I just want to say thank you guys for the support and the love and I already know you guys congratulations and stuff is in the comments and I know it's gonna be the ones that say you know I move all the time literally one of my Instagram friends and said you move every month whatever mind your business so yeah I just want to say I'm happy already um I'm feeling it I'm about to get to cleaning I literally gotta mop vacuum the floors and like just do everything so into my next video y'all will probably be seeing me in my apartment empty apartment tour that'd be up in a few days so don't forget to like this video it helps me out a lot please like the video comment and subscribe if you haven't already by this time girl and I will see y'all in my next video bye guys