8 Tips for Packing Your Home
Do you need to move? Whatever the reason is, you will need to pack up your things before relocating. This can be hectic and you may feel the urge to hire to do it. Should that always be the case? No, you can pack yourself. After all, they’re your belongings and only you know how best to handle them. Think about the cost you will have to incur on hiring the packers yet it is a task that requires nothing but a few basics put in place. Here are a few tips to help you pack your things yourself:
1. Start Early:
When moving, time matters. The earlier you start packing the better, especially if you are moving from a big house which has a lot of things. You could even dedicate a day for each room. This will help you pack peacefully and with the required detail because there is not the panic and stuffing things in boxes that would likely be the case if you do it in the last minutes with the adrenaline rush working you out. When packing yourself, rushing should be avoided at all costs and starting early is the key.
2. Use the Right Boxes:
When you want to move, go to a local store and ask for boxes designed for moving. This will be essential for packing your property because they are meant for the job. The boxes come in uniform sizes and can therefore be packed and stacked easily. Furthermore, they can take the more weight than the boxes for carrying shop merchandise that some people reuse.
3. Labeling the Boxes:
Labeling the boxes makes it easy to retrieve the items when you get to your destination. This is very helpful especially if you are not the one receiving them on the other side. How then do you make the labels? It all depends on the mode of packing. Labelling according to the rooms is preferred by most movers. Of course it is applicable if you packed room by room. However, there are those who prefer packing similar items together. With this, your labels will have to follow suit.
4. The Essentials come last:
There are some things you use frequently. If you have a box with personal effects, you have to load it last and unload it first therefore its place is undisputedly on top of the rest. This is applied not only to personal effects but whatever you consider essential. If you love music, let the sound systems be wrapped up last.
5. Small Items in Small Boxes:
Small items can be difficult to deal with. They are likely to get lost as you move. The best way is to have them packed in small boxes then put these boxes in one larger box. This way you will save yourself the work of frantically looking for small treasures when you arrive at your new place.
6. Important Documents are Safer with you:
There are documents you don’t want to lose. Such things as passports or certificates are best handled by yourself. Just find a good hand bag and pack them well. They don’t need to be transported in a truck with all the other things.
7. Give Some Things Up:
When moving, you have to give up some of the things. Not everything is important and there is a lot of junk you have been longing to get rid of. This is the right moment. You could give away some stuff to neighbors and friends or even sell others prior to the day of moving. This is a good way of reducing the load you have to carry along.
8. Make a Packing List:
When moving, drafting a simple packing list is good practice. It will ease the delivery process. Because all the items in the house can be quite many, you have to make it as simple as possible. Just have the broad categories and give priority to the important belongings. For example, simply write toys. You don’t have to go naming each of them. In fact, using the boxes’ labels is the best thing to do so that anyone unpacking or receiving the items knows that there’s a box for toys or clothes. It is easy to know if anything is missing when you have a packing list.
Consider all these tips when packing things and you will find it an easy task that can be done by anyone.