Tips on packing awkward items!

ccskitten

Hi all

Looks like I'm moving on Friday. We've been packing for the last 8 months and I've got all the awkward items left to pack.

How would you pack board games? If I don't box them the lids could come off and spill but if I do pack them I can only fit 3-4 in a box! Any tips?

My tip for anyone who is interested is using draw string bin bags to bag up clothes in the wardrobe. Just bag from the bottom (about 7 hangers at a time) whilst they are still hanging and tie the draw string tight around the top of the hanger. It's saved me loads of time packing and unpacking is going to be even easier.

Any more top tips?

Callie22

Board games are light, so use them to fill up heavier boxes - for example, I normally use archive boxes to move, and whilst they're great (and stackable) they generally get too heavy to lift comfortably if you put more than one layer of books in them (I pack books spine up so it's easier to see what they are when unpacking). So, I usually fill the boxes up with lighter stuff - DVDs, board games etc.

Rosemary7391

You could use elastic bands, hair ties, bits of string/ribbon or sellotape (if you don't mind potentially ripping the box) to keep the boxes closed? I'd do that anyway tbh even if I was putting them in a box. So many of my things are closed with hair ties!

kinger101

8 months to pack! My top tip would be make a few visits to the local council tip. Moving is an opportunity to declutter. Start with the board games.

concrete_kid

Cling film, I use it loads when packing, for wrapping plates, sharp knives, ensuring small boxes stay closed, covering half opened jars and bottles so they don't spill and many other things.

googler

ccskitten wrote: »

How would you pack board games? If I don't box them the lids could come off and spill but if I do pack them I can only fit 3-4 in a box! Any tips?

Elastic bands or string? Put three or four together, put them in a bin bag and wrap the bin bag tight with brown vinyl packing tape, vertically, and in both horizontal dimensions


My tip for anyone who is interested is using draw string bin bags to bag up clothes in the wardrobe. Just bag from the bottom (about 7 hangers at a time) whilst they are still hanging and tie the draw string tight around the top of the hanger. It's saved me loads of time packing and unpacking is going to be even easier.

Any more top tips?

Don't even need the draw string ones? Poke a hole in the base of a regular one, and ....

elverson

I get empty cardboard crates (look in the fruit and veg section) from the supermarket. They work great for DVDs (spine up), board games, larger books, kitchen stuff...

DaftyDuck

As concrete_kid suggests; clingfilm is wondrous stuff, especially if used in quantity. You can buy huge catering rolls. Wrap round unwrappable objects and they are .... wrapped! Try using it to hold wooden bedframes together when collapsed, and it'll keep all the bits together, with no sticky marks. You can use it around opening furniture cupboard doord to keep them closed (twisting one layer helps strengthen it), and all those drawers of small items can stay unpacked; just wrap the whole drawer, and stick it back in the furniture. Cutlery racks, open boxes, baskets, all get the clingfilm treatment.

Mind you, concrete_kid, I've never tried concrete!

pinkteapot

We have an epic board game collection so had LOADS of boxes filled with board games. Definitely pack them, even though it uses lots of boxes. Not worth risking lids coming off and parts going everywhere. The board game boxes themselves will also be protected from getting bumped/squashed.

LE3

kinger101 wrote: »

8 months to pack! My top tip would be make a few visits to the local council tip. Moving is an opportunity to declutter. Start with the board games.

You may not like board games but some of us enjoy playing them & don't consider them as "clutter". I'd rather have my pile of board games than a TV!


To the OP - you could definitely use cling film or elastic bands & maybe pack a bunch into bin bags if you are moving yourself, or as another poster says, to balance out weight of books etc in other boxes. Board games are light & bulky, and I often mix them in with books which are small & heavy, to make the boxes more manageable