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| bboopster |
Posted - Apr 02 2006 : 09:29:50 AM
Hello,
I need suggestions on packing to move. I hate it and it always seems to be a bad experence. How to pack fragile items? Or just general heplful hints. Boxes what type work best? HELP!!!! I personly would rather leave it all behind and start over. Not practical but a cool thought.
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
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| bboopster |
Posted - Apr 02 2006 : 1:17:02 PM
Thanks Patti,
I can't believe that I have collected so much stuff again. 12 years ago I moved from an old farm house after a divorce and throw out a dumpster plus of stuff. 4 years ago when my three of my children moved out I again moved and I gave away ton's of stuff. Now I find I have just as much stuff in a much smaller place. I think my stuff need birth control. It just keeps multipling. This is my last move! The next time I move my kids will be left with the stuff as I will have pasted. I'm calling my local liquor store (I know the owners)for boxes love the Idea and will be calling to local radio station for moving boxs, they have a swap hour. One room at a time it will be. I wish you were here I would swap packing for something! Anything!
Looking forward to unpack.
Pray for our troops to come home safe and soon.
Enjoying the road to the simple life :>) |
| happymama58 |
Posted - Apr 02 2006 : 10:07:20 AM
Dh told me I counted wrong in my post about selling our house -- this will be our 16th move in 21 1/2 years of marriage. I love to pack and unpack!!!
Two types of boxes we love to get are banana boxes from the grocery store and liquor boxes (either grocery store or liquor store). Both of these are really strong. Banana boxes have a waxy coating over the cardboard and are really strong; liquor boxes have the dividers in them. After I pack all the glasses (sometimes they have a divider where you can stack the glasses two tall -- one on top of the other), I take the dividers out and separate them, then use them as dividers between framed pictures and other stuff like that that can scratch or break. Both of these types of boxes are very, very strong and they have handles built into them (cut out areas). **edited to explain -- I don't take out the dividers between the glasses. What I meant is that after I've packed all the glasses, I take the remaining dividers out of the rest of the boxes. Sorry about that.
Another thing to do is, if you have time, advertise in the Big Nickel or Thrifty Nickel type of paper that you're looking for packing boxes. On the last move, we got Uhaul boxes for free, including wardrobe boxes that had a hanging rod in them!!
You can get free mailing stuff, including bubble wrap, from store dumpsters. Two moves ago, dh saw an employee at a video store carrying out a huge roll of bubble wrap. He asked if he could have it and the manager said they could not give it to him, but if he drove the car around to the dumpster, he could get it out of the trash. The kid laid it on the ground next to the dumpster and told dh he'd put tons of the stuff in there in the last hour. It was all in perfect shape, didn't smell, etc., or anything!
If you're going to be storing stuff in a storage facility, label each box carefully and, if you have time, # them. Then keep a list on a notepad of each box by #, what room it goes in, and a brief summary (ex: DVDs and family videos) of what's in the box.
I do all my sorting when I'm packing. Right now, I'm packing one room at a time, and every item goes into 1 of 4 places -- packed in a box to be moved; priced (right then, so it's not overwhelming) and placed in the garage-sale room (we emptied out one room to put all that stuff there, ready to put out this coming Friday); in the trash (and I put it there right away, so I don't weaken and change my mind); and to be kept for use right up until the move.
I don't touch either of the kids' rooms and haven't since they've been 10 or so. THey love to pack up their own stuff!
As for breakage. I wrap everything breakable in bubble wrap, newspaper, or with cardboard dividers from the liquor boxes (works great with glasses and plates). It's been several moves since we've broken anything, and that was a move that involved a 24-hour drive in which someone ran into our Uhaul while we were stopped at a stoplight! Other than that, no problems.
Sorry for going on & on. I'm no expert, but after watching professionals move us my entire childhood (my dad was in the Navy) and again the first 6 years we were married (dh was in the Air Force), I learned alot.
Some people search for happiness; others create it.
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| akcowgirl |
Posted - Apr 02 2006 : 09:36:12 AM
My best suggestion is if you have a local book store go there to see if they have any boxes. They are a good size and good and sturdy. I packed my whole house into book boxes and it made a huge difference. I have no boxes that the bottom fell out of. I pack all my fragil items in sheets, towels, tshirts you name it. Them you don't have to possilbly pay for paper and that stuff all has to go anyway right. Good luck moveing I hate moveing also.
Valerie
Alaska Girl all the way
Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before.
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