subject: Use High Quality Materials For Packing Your Home. [print this page] You may find it very beneficial to involve your children in the packing of your home, you can have them pack up their own toys, or books while you focus on other areas of their home. Once they have packed the parts of their own home which they can pack you will need to keep them entertained so that they arent constantly under your feet interrupting your packing time. You will find a cardboard playhouse which is the perfect tool, they can spend time colouring it in to their own tastes before being able to play in it to their hearts content.
You will need to spend a lot of time packing because without realising it we collect a lot of items over the years we spend in a home, and often you leave with more than what you started with, even if you have cleared out many times throughout the years. When you are moving home, it is another opportunity to have a clear out of your home, why pack the items that you have no use for when at the same time you could pack them in a different box to go to charity, or for friends and family to have dibs at, or to the tip if theyre broken or of no use to anyone. By sorting out your belongings while you are packing you wont be taking any unnecessary items with you which will clutter up your new home. You will be able to move into your own home knowing that you have all the belongings you need and no unnecessary clutter which you will only need to clear out at some point.
It is very important to find the right packing materials when moving home, it is all too easy to decide that you will just use what you have available, cardboard boxes free from the supermarket, and any boxes family or friends have from buying large products. Often you wont have bubble wrap or marker pens on hand; newspaper and biros dont quite do as good a job. You can use all of these materials for packing your home however they are weaker and you are much more likely to encounter difficulty, whether you cant see the writing clearly on the boxes, or your boxes fall apart in the middle of moving, both are things which you dont want to happen.
If you search online you will find that there are many different boxes available which are created exactly for moving, these boxes are made of a much higher quality of cardboard and are designed to withstand the weight of your belongings. You will also find that there are many different sizes and types of boxes available, and by buying them from the same supplier you will usually discover that they all slot together very well making the loading of a van a much easier task.
We all have games consoles and DVD players and one thing we dont want is for them to become damaged during the move, now you dont need to worry about that with DVD player boxes available which are the perfect size for packing most games consoles, satellite boxes, and DVD players. You may also find CD/DVD boxes as a useful way to pack all of your CDs, DVDs and video games. One box not to forget about is the wardrobe box, you will find this a very beneficial box to have when you move into your new home, as there will be no immediate rush to get your furniture set up and your clothes unpacked. While you are focusing on other more important areas of your home you will be able to use your wardrobe packing box as a temporary wardrobe, leaving your clothes with few creases. Standard sized cardboard boxes and square boxes are the ones which are needed most to pack most belongings in, one thing to remember is not to fill your box with heavy items, put your heavy items at the bottom and then fill the top with lighter items so that it doesnt become too heavy to lift or cause any injury.
