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Clothink and Bedding

It's hard to go wrong packing clothing. Just fold the stuff and lay it in a box. Wrap shoes in packing paper so they don't soil clothing.

We recommend packing clothing in new boxes. Used moving boxes are, really, not very clean. Personal effects, even from clean, healthy people, contain an amazing amount of bacteria, and assorted mites and parasites. If you would feel uncomfortable about wearing someone else's unwashed clothing, think twice about used moving boxes.

If wrinkling or crushing is a concern, we recommend the use of lay down wardrobe boxes. Carefully folded clothing ought to get through a move in good shape in these boxes. There is a popular belief that use of hanging wardrobe boxes prevents wrinkling and crushing. This belief is wrong. Actually, if the clothing is packed tight enough into a hanging wardrobe box to prevent its falling off the bar, it will be packed tight enough to be crushed. Hanging wardrobe boxes are easy to pack, but because of all the space left in the bottom of the box, they waste space in the truck.

Clothing and bedding can. Itself, be used as packing material. If you're working on a budget, use clothing and bedding to pack fragile items like lamps, vases, and electronics. Clothing uses as padding can be protected a bit by placing it in plastic bags before packing it around he fragile stuff.

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