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Packing Tips
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1. Select your moving company well in
advance.
2. Purchase insurance coverage on movables.
3. If you need to store some of your goods, it's a good idea to tour
the warehouse of the mover you're planning to use. Look for
cleanliness, organization, security, etc.
4. At the time of residential moves take inventory of your home.
Decide what to keep what to give away. Donate items you no longer
want or have a garage sale.
5. Create a file for all-important moving-related documents.
6. Start packing belongings that you don't often use.
7. Discard or give away all your absolutely inessential items before
moving.
8. Pack your current phone book to take with you. You may need to
make calls to residents or businesses back in your former hometown.
9. Pack heavy items in small boxes, light items in larger boxes.
10. Place pictures and glasses in boxes between sheets and blankets
to give them added protection.
11. Plates and record albums should be packed on end vertically,
rather than placed flat and stacked.
12. Finish packing your personal items and make sure all boxes are
appropriately labeled.
13. Before the mover’s leave for your destination residence, give
them a phone number where you can be reached. It is also a good idea
to provide him with an alternate contact in case you can't be
reached.
14. Toilet paper, telephone, toothpaste and brushes, snacks, coffee
and coffee pot, soap, flashlight, screwdriver, pliers, can opener,
paper plates, cups and utensils, a couple of pans, and paper towels
are some of the essentials you may need upon arrival at your new
home. Pack a box with these types of items and ask your movers to
load it on the van last so that it will be unloaded at your new home
first.
15. Leave the rest to the professional movers, sit back and
relax, and look forward to the new opportunities, new friends, new
experiences, etc. that are part of any move.
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