Your parents, if you’re lucky, spent a vast majority of their adult years raising you right and caring for you. By the time we are teenagers we resent them for any and all reasons, re-discover our love for them once we get over ourselves, and spend many years after knowing that everyone can (hopefully) take care of themselves. However, when our parents begin entering their twilight years, things begin to change. Read More...

If you thought moving with a significant other was hard, try doing it with children. Whether it be one, or four, of them, it’s certainly no easy task. With young children, it’s hard to get them excited for a move. This is especially true if they have lived in the same place for their entire lives. All they know is the town or city they grew up in, and while you as the parent might look at the move as a major positive, your children likely despise the entire process. Read More...

Making the decision to move is exciting and terrifying all at once. On the one hand, you’re changing scenery! Even if you’re moving within the same state, or town, your home setting will change. On the other hand, everything you see around your current living space must be transferred to the new one. It’s at that moment you often feel the trickle of dread begin to creep down between your shoulder blades. Read More...

If you’ve had the luxury of living in New England for a majority of your life, you know just how bad winters can get here. It’s always a toss-up. Sometimes the season lulls you into a sense of complacency with only cold weather, and then two days later there is almost two feet of snow on top of everything. The winter months certainly keep us guessing, and since they seem to take up most of the year, a lot of people move in the winter time. Read More...

Moving around the Greater Boston area can be a tough process for anyone, especially if you have a large amount of possessions and furniture to move. Whether you are moving to a small apartment right in the North End, or skipping town for greener pastures in Western Massachusetts every move comes with it’s specific challenges. There are a few things you can do to ease the tension before a trusted moving company even arrives on moving day. Read More...

All the sudden you just landed a new job. Perhaps they are going to foot your moving expenses, but they didn’t give you and your family much time to pick up and leave. You and your spouse have now found yourselves scrambling to put in your two week’s notice, look for a new home, find a new school for the kids and reroute your mail. There’s so much to do and so little time before you’re supposed to be in a new town or city that you don’t possibly have any time to pack. Read More...

A move is exciting! There is a journey ahead of you that is full of adventures and decisions. Whether you are moving across the country or simply down the street, you should be aware of these common moving mistakes, and create a plan to deal with such issues to keep you stress free! You may feel like renting out your old home, but you need to be smart about it. Read More...

As much as we love Massachusetts and the greater Boston area (and we hope you do too!) we understand that sometimes people need to leave the Bay State for one reason or another. Luckily our long distance moving company is ready to go the distance with you. Our moving trucks have racked up some serious miles in the past; we’ve completed moves as far away as California and Florida and as close as Connecticut, New York and Rhode Island. Read More...

Earlier this month, the full service moving company helped a Natick local move into their new assisted living home in Wayland, MA Mastodon Moving LLC worked extensively with the entire family to move their loved one safely from her Natick condo to a new assisted living condo in Wayland. The job called for full service moving, which started with move management services. Owner JJ Przybylski worked with the family and their loved one to determine what possessions were to move, to be donated and to be tossed. Read More...

While many families and college graduates are moving zip code to zip code, some are moving long distance instead. State to state moves can be hectic because if you forget an item in your old living space, you can’t exactly head back and get it! If you misplace something, it can be tough to find in a truck that you’ve packed yourself and simply just tried to fit everything inside by piling things on top of the other. Read More...