If you are one of the forty million Americans who will move this year, you know the task can seem overwhelming. Now, there's help. How to Survive A Move by Hundreds of Happy People Who Did (and some things to avoid, from a few who haven’t unpacked yet), offers hundreds of helpful and entertaining stories on moving from the real "pros"—everyday people who have moved and survived to tell their stories. "Moving is one of the most challenging things you can do: Take your daily life and everything that’s familiar, throw it all in the blender known as a moving truck, and see what comes out when you get to the other side. Yet it’s precisely what 1 in every 7 Americans do every year," write the book’s editors, Jamie Allen and Kazz Regelman. "We wanted to create a book that offered the best tips on everything from moving your pets to making friends with your new neighbors." How to Survive A Move offers a truckload of valuable relocating advice, including: • Packing Up—it actually starts with "trashing"

• Professional Movers vs. Inexpensive Friends

• Baby on Board—Advice for Parents

• Saying Goodbye to Family and Friends

• Pets—how to move a fish and calm a cat

• Settling in—getting unpacked and making your new place "home"

• Worst Moves Ever (what to avoid!) Just in time for the busy summer moving months—when families with school-aged children are most likely to pick up stakes— How to Survive A Move offers quick tips for harried movers. Unlike other moving books that give the opinion of one or two experts, How to Survive A Move includes words of wisdom from hundreds of people— both singles and families, nationwide—who have "been there, done that" (many of them have moved over a dozen times!). Millions of people have survived moving, and so can you!