Last updated on October 30, 2023
It may be a state of anxiety when you would have to undertake packing your belongings before moving to another city, state or country. We understand that we should pack things in such a way that they can be taken out again in an organised way and easily; however, all of us need not necessarily know how to do that. Therefore, professional Balmain Removalists thought to give some excellent tips with which you may find the daunting task of packing much easier.
1. Don’t Remove Hangers from Clothes and Pack them in Trash Bags
Instead of removing clothes from hangers and packing them in suitcases, you can keep them as they are and directly pack them in trash bags and tie the hangers together to keep them together to avoid mess.
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2. Roll Clothes, Don’t Fold Them
This is another great trick to save a lot of your packing space. Instead of folding clothes, roll them. This will also save clothes from creases.
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3. Drag Heavy Furniture Items on a Thick Cloth
While moving heavy furniture items, place thick cloth like towels, or old curtains under them and drag the cloth. This will save your floor from getting damaged and the furniture will move much easier.
4. Toilet Paper for Organising Wires
While packing electronic appliances, their wires always make you confused about what to do with them. But toilet paper rolls come to help you here! Use these rolls to keep your wires organised. You can wrap each wire with them and also can stuff them inside an empty roll.
5. Sandwich Bags for Packing Screws
Just like wires and screws to make you confused. They are extremely important because if you misplace them, you cannot assemble your electronics unless you find a replacement. At the same time, they are so small and so, easy to get misplaced. Use sandwich bags to pack these small guys and other small-size hardware items.
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6. Cotton Balls for Fragile Cosmetic Items
Cotton balls work wonders while packing fragile cosmetic items of small size which cannot be packed in bubble wraps or other big cushions. Cotton balls being small-sized go well with these miniature items like compacts, eye shadow boxes or a small makeup mirror.
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7. Wrap Bottles of Liquids in Plastic
Bottles of liquids like oil, shampoo, hair color and cleaning supplies should be wrapped in plastic to avoid messy situations of the liquids inside spilling out and spoiling and/or damaging their neighboring items.
8. Defreeze Your Refrigerator before One Day
One day before you move, defrost your refrigerator to avoid any leaks or odors while transporting.
9. Heaviest Items in Wheeled Suitcases
Small-sized but heaviest items can be packed in wheeled suitcases will make it easy for transporting them.
10. Use Old Clothes to Pack Delicate Crockery
When preparing to move fragile items such as crockery, it can be helpful to repurpose soft clothing items that you plan to donate or sell. By keeping these soft items, such as clothing or linens, you can use them as a protective layer when packing your delicate crockery. This approach not only helps you save money on bubble wrap but also provides an effective and sustainable way to protect your fragile items during the move.
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11. Make Lifting Cardboard Boxes Easy by Cutting Handles
This is a simple yet effective idea to make cardboard boxes easy to lift – you just have to cut rectangular shapes on two opposite sides of cardboard boxes and lifting them becomes much easier.
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12. Don’t Forget to Pack the Essentials in One or Two Separate Small Bag/s
After reaching your new home, you might not unpack all the items immediately. But you will need some items at once. Don’t forget to pack them in separate small bags so that you can get them easily right upon reaching the new home. These may contain face wash, napkins, warm clothes, bed sheets etc.
Author Bio: Bill Chen received a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce majoring in Business Administration from the University of Sydney. Currently, he is a businessman and running his international – interstate removal company named Bill Removalists Sydney. He is also an active blogger for his website and other sites in the industry.