Moving Tips Learn How to Organise an Interstate Move | Page 24

We divided my old apartment up into sectors and packed in sections, making
sure that the boxes we packed were both light and contained like items. Yes,
your bedroom stuff might fit in the kitchen box, but you're really just making
things complicated for yourself down the line.
Come up with a packing "plan" and stick to it. I hate packing, but when we broke
it up into sections it didn't seem nearly as bad. Packing for an hour each night
is a heck of a lot easier than frantically packing for the 12 hours leading up to
the movers' arrival.
Wrap Those Breakables
Wrapping every dish in your cabinet, and especially every pint glass (I think I
have 100) is obnoxious. It's also necessary. Pack those boxes with the idea that
they're going to get thrown around. They might get dropped. They might get
dropped down a flight of stairs.
Wrap things in bubble wrap, or kitchen towels, or something. We used liquor
boxes with dividends to move some glassware which made things a tiny bit
easier. The idea is to not leave anything up to chance. If it's important enough
to move then it's probably important enough to protect.
You'll want to remove the coffee pot from your coffee machine, as well (seems
obvious to me, but apparently some people don't do it), and you need to secure
the swinging arm in that grandfather clock you want to move. The big mirror
you have? Move it between a few mattresses.
Come Up With a System
Two friends of mine just made the trek from New York to San Francisco. Two
of the most organised people I know, they had created a spreadsheet of what
was in each box they moved. For instance, "Box 12" might be "dishes and the
punch bowl."
When it came time to unpack, they weren't digging through the 45 "kitchen"
boxes to find what they were looking for, they just had to look for the right box