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Moving can be quite a daunting task if you are moving locally, coast to coast or even overseas. A research on moving companies in New York has revealed that packing is one of the stress contributors to the process of moving. Packing is a process which reflects on how you organize things. Here are some smart tips which can off-set some of your stress when you move and especially during the packing process:

  1. Pack in advance. If you have three televisions sets and two music systems, start packing the ones that you do not use. You can very well do with a music system and a television for the rest of the remaining days of your stay in the old home which can be barely a month. This means that packing should be initiated a month before the actual move.
  2. Items of extraordinary high value like important documents, antique pieces and fragile items must not be given to the movers. Pack them properly and seal them securely. Important papers and documents like birth-certificates, rental papers of the new home, your financial documents and bill-receipts should be appropriately filed and kept in a folder, which should be with you or your family member at all times.
  3. Insist on keeping things together when movers are packing boxes. Little or loose parts should be attached or stuck to the item they belong to with a tape or hard glue. You can keep things like cords in a ziplock bag and link it to the underside of the item, of which they are a part. Try to pair items of the same type together or connect a smaller part to the mother item. You can keep all the cords, cables, nails, detached important pieces of an appliance and label them accordingly before putting them in a box.
  4. Every family member should stack items of their interest in different colored boxes and list the contents as well. You can even name these boxes.
  5. You should make a list of the number of the boxes that you will be packing and the content therein. You can either take a print-out of the kind of boxes with columns for the items to be packed and the quantity. You can even keep a record of the items that you pack in a big notebook.
  6. You should keep packing supplies and miscellaneous items like scotch tape, pens, felt-pens, markers and labels in a separate box and give it a suitable name.
  7. You should keep around 8 to 10 boxes for last minute packing. You can keep sanitary items, toys, cleaning supplies, bedding items in them.
  8. Check with the moving company for the right size and quantity of wardrobe boxes. They are good for blankets, clothing and other lightweight bulky items. These boxes also serve as closet storage boxes, shoe boxes and large baskets.
  9. You should give a specific color for each room in the new home like blue for bathroom, pink for bedroom, white for kitchen etc. Applied stickers of the relevant color on the boxes that needed to be carried and put in the specific room. You can even put a matching colored sticker on the door of each room of the new apartment to guide the movers exactly about how they can carry the boxes in the respective rooms.

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