Before you pack, you need to ready this Moving Tip: How to Safely Pack and Move Plates!
Planning a move?? Our family recently moved, and with a big move comes a whole lot of packing, so I put this simple moving tip to use from frugal friend Kendra!
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Moving Tip: How to Safely Pack and Move Plates
To help your plates arrive safely when moving, simply purchase a pack of foam plates… check your local dollar store!
Then… place a foam plate between each of your plates…
You’ll want to wrap and pad in addition to this, but this simple trick will help to keep your plates from clinking and clanking around during the move! 😉
How easy is that?!?
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Larry Weaver says
The idea to use foam plates between each plate when packing is a really neat idea! Unfortunately, I have some plates that are far too large to work with foam plates. Perhaps I’ll look into using fabricated foam as a way to pack my large plates during my move as a solution.
Cheryl says
We moved cross country in August. We packed a ton of stuff and had Public Moving Company move us. Everything I packed arrived in perfect condition except one glass bowl & one picture frame. EVERYTHING the moving company packed was broken. People, DO NOT use Public Moving & Storage Company for your move unless you fully purchase the extremely high insurance package which we did not. In the end we didn’t recoup any money for broken items because in the very tiny print that you don’t read on the back of the sheets they have you sign, it says that to get any money back you have to have 3 written estimates, the original receipt & everything has to have a notary on each estimate. Now, how many places will come out to look at your brand new $2,800.00 fridge to give you an estimate and have it notarized? None…same with all of our stuff. We had 3 electric fire places which two were brand new and all were broken. Our table, love seat, 2 recliners were all broken. Vacuum, ironing board, you guessed it BROKEN. Thank God we packed most of our regular stuff. The company was suppose to have our stuff delivered on August 11th but we didn’t see the truck until the last day of August. All we were told was our stuff had been off loaded into one of their storage stations and when a truck was coming this way, we would get our stuff. When the truck was almost here the driver called, it was just him and he wanted my husband (who’s 65 & had 3 heart attacks) to help him unpack it. We told him no way especially since they DOUBLED our price (we were told if we didn’t pay the items would be put in storage and we’d have to pay for the storage until it could be worked out). The guy made a call and got 3 guys to meet him here and it took them 7 hours to unload the truck. The guys scratched the crap out of my new wood floors, didn’t put the boxes in the correct rooms (which we paid for) and was standing on our boxes to get higher up boxes in the truck. All in all it was a horrible ordeal so people, do yourself a favor and do not hire these people and help spread the word. I think they took advantage of seniors and knew what they were doing when they had the packing guy go over the paperwork so fast with us….this was 4 days AFTER we were suppose to be out of the house. They never called us to tell us they were running late or that the truck broke down or that one of the guys got sick so they didn’t have extra people to pack the truck. Thanks to the people who bought our house for letting us stay until the movers finally showed up!
Terry says
I’ve seen comments on other sites about packing plates vertically is bad idea: then why do manufacturers pack them that way for sale? I too use dish towels and washcloths to wrap and I also use socks for glassware before putting in wine boxes. Small sports socks are also great for packing the lightbulbs removed from lamps. Just wish I could find a great way to pack lampshades…seems mine always seem to get smushed no matter how carefully I pack them!
Joan Smith says
Really clever tip! Last time I moved it was a great disaster and I had a box full of broken plates when I finished unpacking. Definitely NOT a good idea to pile all your plates in one box with no dividing between each of them. It was not such a problem, because I made a lovely mosaic table from the broken pieces, and also bought new beautiful plates, that I really like. I’m moving again and this time I’ll pay more attention on packing. Thank you for this great idea!
Kristyn says
I’ve shared this tip with every client who has even mentioned packing their kitchen! Love it so much I’m including it in a round up of favorite moving tips on my blog soon!