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PACKING FOR THE BIG MOVE!

Congrats on your new home! Now you just have to figure

out how you’re going to pack and move everything
without breaking the bank, your fragile lamp, or your
back. Good thing we put together this list of easy moving
and packing tips that will make your move dead simple

1 USE THE RIGHT SIZE BOXES. Put heavy items, like 2

books, in small boxes; light items, like linens and
pillows, in bigger ones. (Large boxes packed with Avoid mixing items from
different rooms in the same
heavy items are a common complaint of professional
box. It will make your packing
movers. They not only make the job harder but also
quicker and your unpacking a
have a better chance of breaking.) lot easier, too.

3 SPACES in the boxes. Fill 4 LABEL EACH BOX with the room it’s destined for and a
DON’T LEAVE EMPTY

in gaps with clothing, description of its contents. This will help you and your
movers know where every box belongs in your new
towels, or packing paper. place. Numbering each box and keeping an inventory
Movers often won’t move list in a small notebook is a good way to keep track of
boxes that feel loosely what you’ve packed―and to make sure you still have

packed or unbalanced. everything when you unpack.

5 PUT HEAVIER ITEMS ON THE BOTTOMS OF BOXES, lighter items on top. And if

you’re loading the truck yourself, pack heavier boxes first, toward the front of
the truck, for balance.

If you’re MOVING EXPENSIVE ART, ask
6 your mover about special crating. Never 7 BUNDLE BREAKABLES. As you pack your

wrap oil paintings in regular paper; it will dishes, put packing paper around each one,
stick. For pictures framed behind glass, then wrap bundles of five or six together

make an X with masking tape across the with more paper. Pack dishes on their sides,
glass to strengthen it and to hold it never flat. And use plenty of bunched-up
together if it shatters. Then wrap the paper as padding above and below. Cups
pictures in paper or bubble wrap and put and bowls can be placed inside one
them in a frame box, with a piece of
another, with paper in between, and
cardboard between each framed piece wrapped three or four in a bundle.
for protection.
8 Consider other items that will NEED SPECIAL TREATMENT. Movers treat TVs like any

other piece of furniture, wrapping them in quilted furniture pads. however, that plasma

TV requires special wooden crates for shipping if you don’t have the original box and can
be ruined if you lay them flat. If you’re packing yourself, double-box your TV, setting the
box containing the TV into another box that you’ve padded with packing paper.

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