When Should You Start Packing for a Move?
Almost everyone starts packing too late. Not because they’re disorganised, but because a house looks perfectly manageable right up until you begin — and then the loft happens. Here’s a timeline that keeps it calm. Four weeks out: the clear-out Don’t pack anything yet. Get rid of things instead. This is the highest-value week of […]
How to Pack Fragile Items So Nothing Breaks
Most moving-day breakages aren’t dramatic. Nothing gets dropped. Things simply shift inside a box that had room to move, and rub against each other for twenty miles. Which is good news, because it means breakages are mostly preventable. Here’s how. The one principle behind all of it Nothing should be able to move inside the […]
How to Pack a House for Moving, Room by Room
Packing an entire house sounds enormous. It isn’t, really — it’s just a lot of small jobs that people try to do all at once, usually on the last night. Do it room by room, in the right order, and it becomes something you chip away at with the radio on. Here’s how. Get your […]