Carefully planning how you pack, you can avoid unnecessary costs and hassles that can make an already stressful event even more frustrating

1. Packing Up:
Making Your
Move Easier

2. Overview
Planning for a move requires more than just throwing all your stuff in a few boxes
and waiting for the movers to pile it in a truck.
If you organize your items and think about how they’ll fit into your new home, the
packing process can actually make your move easier.
By carefully planning how you pack, you can avoid unnecessary costs and hassles
that can make an already stressful event even more frustrating.

3. Why Planning Is Needed
For Packing and Moving
Homeowners lose substantial amounts of money
each year in additional moving fees and damages
to their possessions because they fail to properly
pack and plan their move.
Taking a few minutes to plan your move –
deciding how items need to be packed and where
they should go when you arrive – will help you
reap significant savings in labor costs for movers
and in lost or broken items.

4. Develop A
Checklist
When planning your move, develop
a checklist of all the items you are
moving. This will help you keep track
of your items and ensure that
nothing is damaged or goes missing.
A checklist also helps to organize
your items into groups, making
sorting them for packing and
transferring them to the appropriate
place in your new home easier.

5. Label Your Boxes
For items you are packing, label
your boxes so that you can keep
up with the contents of each box
as the movers are loading the
truck.
Labeled boxes also make it easier
to stay organized when you arrive
at your new home. You can use
the labels to determine where
each box should go, saving you a
lot of time.

6. Develop A Floor Plan
To save time and trouble when you arrive
at your new home, develop a floor plan of
the new residence and list which boxes
and furniture need to go where.
A floor plan will reduce the amount of
time you or your movers will spend
putting your items in the right place at the
new residence.

7. Think About What You’re Putting In Boxes
By optimizing how you fill your boxes, you can ensure that your items aren’t damaged,
that you or your movers aren’t stuck moving boxes that are too heavy or awkward and
that everything is easily accessible when you arrive at your new home.
Be sure to:
• Limit boxes to no more than 35 lbs., if possible.
• Use sturdy boxes that close.
• Avoid mixing items from different rooms in the same box.
• Provide cushioning within the box.

8. Professional Packing
If the prospect of sorting all your worldly goods, wrapping the fragile items in
newspaper or Styrofoam, boxing up everything and labeling boxes doesn’t sound
like the ideal way to spend your time, you may want to consider letting your mover
handle the organization and packing of your items.
Moving professionals can help ensure your items are safely and securely stored
and can organize your move to make it go much more smoothly. It also saves you
much of the grunt work involved in moving.

9. About Kloke
Kloke Group offers moving and storage options for clients in the Northern Virginia,
Richmond, and Tidewater areas.
Whether you’re moving your home or business, moving around the corner or
across the world, Kloke can provide moving solutions that fit your individual needs.
Visit us at http://www.kloke.com or call us today at a location nearest to you:
Tidewater - 757-320-1189
Manassas - 571-921-4563
Richmond - 804-201-9221
Fredericksburg - 540-322-2270