During the packing process, you are reunited with all your things and at a more familiar level than before.
Reconsider each thing from different angles: how useful is it? Could it be something important for my future home? What memories does it bring me? Will I feel guilty if I discard it? Will it serve another person more than me?
Evaluating the use of your belongings is a great technique to rule out compulsive storage and will also make packing easier. When you employee Matco to pack your stuff the label must detail its contents. For you, just the simple “room” or “bathroom” label will suffice.
Here are tips to help you efficiently pack every room in the house:
Kitchen
Because the kitchen is full of things that are used regularly, there is not much that can be thrown away. It takes little time to decide what to stay with, so the kitchen is the fastest to pack. “My favorite packaging secret is to pack crockery, trays and the rest vertically, not horizontally, in boxes,” says certified professional organizer Amy Trager. “A lower pressure of boxes stacked on the surface of the crockery means that they are less likely to break or crack during transit.”
Boxes: use smaller boxes since the crockery and utensils are heavy.
Packaging materials: In terms of packaging materials, thin plates of plastic foam between the plates will suffice for the daily tableware, but porcelain and other more delicate ones go better with packaging material with bubbles. Cloth napkins, kitchen towels, and tablecloths will also help. On the other hand, the newspaper is annoying because of the ink stains, and you will have to wash every piece of crockery in the new house – and this is not the best way to get settled.
Bedrooms
Except for the sheets and blankets on the bed and the clothing you wear regularly, most things in the room can be packed a month before the move. This gives you time to decide if there are things you do not want to take away. For large things that are not salable, remember that the Salvation Army will withdraw them if you call ahead. Call the local branch a few days before the desired date so they can take things with you.
Boxes: the wardrobe boxes are the best. It is the simplest thing to pack because you only have to transfer the clothes hanging from the hangers from the closet to the box, as they were in the closet itself. If you keep the clothes on the hangers as they came from the dry cleaner, you can put most of your shirts, pants, and dresses in the wardrobe boxes. Medium-sized boxes are ideal for folded clothing because clothing is relatively light (compared to kitchen appliances and books).
Packaging material: folded clothing must be placed in a plastic garbage bag before putting in boxes, in case you get wet during the transfer.
Living / Entertainment room
The living has an advantage: If you pack decorative objects, books and other objects that are not used daily, it will be the fastest environment in the house. The people from the moving company will take care of most of the things here since furniture dominates this environment. DVDs, games, CDs and small A / V equipment are similar in size, which makes them easy to pack.
Boxes: how to pack the TV: keep the box of your flat screen TV because nothing protects your TV better than its original box. Moving experts say that flat-panel televisions are the most likely to break in transit if they are in a generic box different from the original.
Use small boxes for CDs and other things in the living room. Be careful because a box quickly becomes heavy. “Place heavier things at the bottom of the box and lighter near the top,” says Kerri Hart of Atlas Van Lines. “Do not exceed 50 pounds per box, so they will be easier to move.”
Office
If your office is disorganized, packing can be difficult, unless you want to stack papers and files in boxes indiscriminately. This is an environment where detailed labels can be very useful when unpacking.
“If there is a space in the house that only one person uses, such as the office, let that person pack or at least help pack,” says Trager. “They are the ideal person to pack their things in a way that makes sense for later use.”
Wait until the day before your move to pack your desktop, you’ll be surprised how many files you’ll want to access before moving You can carry the laptops in the car, so you should only put them in their cases.
Bathroom
Start with personal toiletries and discard the most used, never used or not going to use. Whatever remains, it can be packed in small boxes inside garbage bags, since these items can easily be dumped.
Have an empty box in your bathroom counter for the things you use every day. He will use them for his last shower or bath in the house and it is easier to have a box set aside just for that. Also, have a laundry bag on hand for the few dirty garments used the day before when you finished packing.
