So. I'm moving from the east coast to the west. Movers are doing most of the packing and all of the heavy lifting. However, I'm not sure how they plan to pack my polishes. What if they just toss them in a box?!
Any suggestions for pre-packing them? How have you moved them before? I was thinking wrapping them in newspaper or something similar.
Posted May 26, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC
Pack them like you would to ship them. Wrap in paper towels, bubble wrap, or tissue paper and bag them in twos or threes in zipping sandwich bags. Box those bags up with plastic grocery bags for padding.
If you have professional movers coming let then do it. They wrap anything glass in a ton of that grey packing paper.
Our movers did an excellent job, also cross country, the only thing that was broken was a thin fragile glass vase from Target...and the handle had already been splintering due to poor design.
That's really comforting to hear. I don't normally worry about things, but I've never had strangers move my things so it's just a little odd.
It's so nice and remember they do it for a living (kind of like a gynecologist) they've seen it alllll so no need to worry :)
Once you have people move you it's almost impossible to even think about moving yourself again, so welcome to the nice spoiled club!
Why thank you. Do we just sit wherever we like? :]
I lined a box with towels. Then I put each bottle of polish in a sock and rolled it in a ball. I alternated between layers of polish sock balls and another bath towel or two. Everything was perfectly fine when I unpacked.
I moved from Europe to Canada with about 200 polishes. I put them in a large plastic box, with a piece of cardboard making a second layer. I think the movers wrapped it in bubble wrap then put it in a cardboard box. None of them died but one spilled a little (prob my fault - cap not fully locked).
Yes, professional movers are the best, they do it so quickly. The worst thing that happened everything crossing the Atlantic was one knob broke off on a desk. Good luck with it!
So. My movers could not pack my polishes. Something about flammable. I ended up keeping about 1/3 of the collection and divvying the remaining 2/3 between two friends of mine. They were so excited about my going away gifts to them! Haha
I would put a piece of tape over the lid that attaches to the bottle and put them in a box that's padded with maybe some bubble wrap, but other than that I wouldn't worry about them.
Tape I do have. And bubble wrap and a box I can procure. Thanks!