How to pack up a house efficiently
MOVING HOUSE HACKS! PACKING HACKS & TIPS FOR MOVING | Emily Norris
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hi guys welcome back to my channel in
today's video i'm going to be sharing
with you the best packing hacks for
moving house that i found
i have been speaking to all my friends
and family i have scoured the internet
and found some amazing hacks
and even though we still don't have a
move date it is going to happen very
soon and i am packing up the house i'm
carrying on
and manifesting this move so that it
does happen
and these hacks are so good i still
thought it was worth sharing them with
you
so i hope you really enjoy them if you
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and with all that said let's get into my
hacks
so first off if you're moving house you
are going to need boxes and as a guide i
found online that you should average
10 boxes per room and then an extra 10
as well so you can roughly
work out how many boxes you're gonna
need and so many people have said to me
don't pay for boxes there are so many
supermarkets
shops friends family that are trying to
get rid of boxes and if you go to the
supermarket and you just
ask they will give it to you of course
you may be using a removals firm
we actually are going to and they will
supply the boxes
but if you're doing it yourself make
sure you don't pay for them
and with all the free boxes that you do
get you might find that they don't have
handles so a really good hack is to take
an x-acto knife
and just cut two slits in it and create
your own handle
this makes it so much easier to carry
and you can either do it in a triangle
or a rectangle like this i personally
found
that the triangular way actually was a
lot easier and worked
even better and a huge tip that so many
people told me when i said i was moving
was to start decluttering now
we've been quite fortunate that during
quarantine we have had time to declutter
like crazy but
you would be amazed at how much you can
accumulate over the years
we've actually got a skip at the moment
to make sure we don't move with any
unwanted things
and once you have gone through every
room and donated or got rid of things
that you don't want anymore it's time to
get packing
and a really cool packing hack is to use
a vacuum pack bags
you can pick these up so cheaply from
poundland or
amazon and various other places i'm sure
you guys have seen these before but you
basically put your belongings into the
bag close it up and then using
your vacuum you suck out all the extra
air that is in the clothes
around the clothes and you wouldn't
believe how much this goes down it makes
it so much smaller
and it also protects your clothes and
something really cool which i didn't
realize you could do
is you can create these yourselves if
you just have a
bin bag you can put in things like large
jumpers or chunky knitwear or even
duvets or throws or blankets
and then just stick the vacuum into the
black bag
hold the edges around it and it works so
well i was shocked when we did this
at how much my big chunky knitwear
shrunk down
and when it comes to hanging clothes a
lot of removal companies will actually
have railings in their truck or even
big boxes that have railings in them and
they'll just grab your stuff on a hanger
and then stick it into the truck but if
you want to protect your clothes
from any dirt when they're being handled
a cool hack is to just stick a bin bag
up from underneath them and tie it at
the top where the hangers are
you can do this in groups maybe 10 items
at a time
and it just means they're that bit more
protected
and this next hack i thought was
completely genius
and that was to pack a basket or box or
handbag whatever you have with
essentials for
the bathroom so that when you get to
your new destination
if anyone needs to use the loo you'll
have things like
hand wash a hand towel first aid kit
maybe even toothbrushes
toilet roll and essentials like that so
whether it's you or your removal man
anyone can use the loo straight away and
you want to pack that into your car
along with a little suitcase with your
essentials for the evening
you basically want to pack a bag like
you're going away for a night
because when you move all of your
worldly belongings
it will make it quite difficult to find
things like pajamas
your child's favorite blanket and so on
and you can even do an essential box for
your kitchen so you might want to pack
things like your kettle
some coffee some tea some
mugs so that you can have that maybe
some bowls some plates to eat off of
a surface spray a cloth in case things
need to be wiped down
straight away some tea towels anything
essential
maybe even your chargers because you
don't want to be scrambling around
looking for those
and pack these essential boxes in your
car so you know exactly where they are
and this next hack is a really cool way
to help protect your plates that
little bit more and cushion them with
party plates
i always have so many of these left over
in our garage from birthdays and various
events so as you can see here i'm just
putting them
in between our plates this is so quick
and easy to do
and just gives them that bit more
padding i've also seen people
online using coffee filters for this as
well
and when it comes to packing photo
frames or any artwork that you've had
framed
make sure that you pack it in your boxes
horizontally
rather than vertically when you pack
frames on top of each other there's more
chance of them breaking
from the impact of everything on top of
them whereas if you pack them
horizontally and then make sure you
really fill up
any of the gaps within the box then they
will be more protected
and you can use things that you just
have around the house it might be
clothes
it might be towels here i'm using this
big
giant fluffy throw and i saw one quote
online
that said if it don't shake it don't
break
so give your box a shake and if you hear
anything you might need to pack it
even tighter and of course label your
fragile boxes
with fragile tape i was really pleased
that i managed to pick up a huge roll of
this
from poundland and while we're talking
about tape a really good hack is to make
sure that you fold
over the end before you put it onto your
box
this will save you so much time because
it will be easier to take the tape off
when you get to your new house and more
importantly than that it will save
your manicure because you will have a
lot of boxes to open
and i don't want to sound like a health
and safety expert here or anything but
if you have scales at home and they're
really easy to use
consider using them to weigh your boxes
when you're packing them
i found an article online that said
ideally your boxes won't weigh more
than 15 kilograms or 30 pounds
so if it's easy enough stick them on the
scale and you could maybe
save someone's back and for heavier
items like
books a really good hack is to use your
suitcases
suitcases can be wheeled and they can
also protect and store
your big items better than boxes can and
i found so many hacks online of just
really clever ways to use things that
you already have
a great way to pack up your sharp knives
or
sharp scissors is to use an oven mitt
you can pack these in and then they are
protected
they're so very padded and this is just
such a genius one
that works really well and another one i
saw
was if you're packing glassware wine
glasses maybe champagne flutes or just
glasses in general
consider using your cozy socks or in
this case i was using matt's socks as
well
these fit over champagne flutes really
easily
and give them a little bit more padding
so that i don't have to use as much
newspaper and just generally using
everything and anything that you have
available
handbags plastic bags baskets here i'm
using a big pot
to pack up some of the things from our
pantry like our spices
and this worked so well and of course
you'll want to label your boxes because
you might have four or five other people
helping you and they will need to know
where to put the boxes down and you
really don't want to get it in the wrong
place so you can either do it the
traditional way
or i've seen some really cool things
online where people actually color code
the boxes
so maybe you make red for kitchen
yellow for bedroom blue for lou whatever
it is
you can color code it or you can just
use simple labels
where you write what is actually in the
boxes on it so it's just really
straightforward
and easy to find things at the other end
i think that's the main thing that you
want to do
and this next hack is such a good one if
you've spent loads of time
curating some shelves in your home and
you want to set
them up the same when you move just take
some quick photos so that you can
reference them
and set them up the same when you get to
your new house and when you are taking
things down
like shelves or toys or beds or drawers
or anything
make sure that you save the screws and
anything else wall brackets or anything
and put them
into a little ziploc baggie and tape
them to the item so that you don't lose
them
you can just write on the bag what
they're actually for and make sure on
move day
that you have some screwdrivers close to
you i'm actually sticking them into this
bag
but you could put them into your handbag
but you'll want to
i think you'll definitely need
screwdrivers on the day because you may
have to take down some last minute light
fixtures
or you may want to start building things
when you do get to your new house
and the last hack i thought was a really
good one for those bigger items
like your table legs or your kitchen
stool legs
consider putting some newspaper onto the
bottom of the legs and then taping them
this way when you do get to your new
house it will be easier to slide these
across the floor
without scratching your brand new floor
right so is it for this video i really
hope you enjoyed it let me know in the
comments below
which one was your favorite and i'll see
you in my next one
bye guys
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