Packing Supplies

For every recipe, you need a list of ingredients. So think about what you are going to use for the job.

• Boxes: These can be purchased at a moving supply company (check your yellow pages). These folks also sell used boxes at a reduced rate. You can also go to liquor stores for their boxes. Keep in mind that you do not need to get huge boxes, because they will be too hard to lift when filled. So keep them manageable. 
  
• Packing Tape: Be sure and get plenty of tape to seal the box top flaps. It is not that expensive and is worth having enough so you don't have to stop and run out an buy more. Also get the dispensers to hold the tape and have more than one if there will be more people helping pack.
  
• Scissors: If you don't get the dispensers, you will need scissors, just remember, scissors are hard to keep up with while you are packing. LOL
  
• Garbage bags: Preferably, the kind that you can see through. That way you will not have to reopen the bags to see if it is trash or something you packed that would not fit in a box. Get very strong ones. Mark them with colored ribbons for code.
  
• Colored Magic Markers: I use colored ones so that I can give each room a different color and that way, when we are unloading the truck, all I have to say is: "Yellow boxes go in the kitchen, green in the bedroom, purple in the living room, etc". Then you can post the color of boxes over the top of the doorway to that room. I have also used colored ribbon to tie around the garbage bags. Stickers and markers usually don't work, because they either fall off, or you can't see them. Clothes are usually in these bags, so raid your sewing stash for old ribbon or your Christmas stash for Christmas ribbon. It is cheap and easy to recognize. Decide ahead of time what your color codes are going to be and put those supplies in the room. Just don't label all the boxes "Misc" (or "Stuff" and "More Stuff")! You can also give the boxes a number and put the contents of that box on your notepad, so you can find where the item is without tearing open each and every box - and creating even more CHAOS!
  
  As far as labeling the boxes, if you start packing up the things that you will not need, and start at 1 and label in ascending order, you will know that the boxes with the lowest numbers can be unpacked last. The higher numbered boxes are the ones with the stuff you use the most. 
  
• Newspapers: This is for packing your dishes and other breakable items. You can never have enough newspapers. Go to the recycle bins and get some. You may have to ask permission. LOL

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