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How to Pack Dishes and Glasses for Moving

Once you have prepared your dish boxes and your fragile packing materials, it is time to begin packing. For optimal success the first time, we recommend that you follow these simple steps:

  1. Items to pack – Plates, bowls, glasses, cups, stemware, and other breakables.
  2. Make sure that you boxes are set up properly. Tape the corners and edges with reinforced packing tape for added strength.
  3. Buy lots of boxes! You don’t want to pack a lot of items in one box. Allow room for padding. Evaluate how much you want to place in a single box. Don’t overfill any boxes or make them too heavy. These are the boxes that you wont want to drop!
  4. Pack all the glassware from one room into the same box or boxes. This makes unpacking and placing them in the new home much easier.
  5. Crumple up paper and place it in the bottom of the box. You know that there is enough paper if you cannot feel the bottom of the box when you press down. Make sure to crumple up paper and pack it into the corners as well.
  6. Stuff crumpled up packing paper inside the glasses. Make sure the paper is packed gently but firmly in the bowl of the glass. Crumple up more paper and wrap it around handles and stems. Insert paper into the open end, roll and tuck. Make sure that the sides and top of the box are also padded. A few layers of paper can absorb some of those bumps that are bound to happen with toy move.
  1. Place all glassware in an upright position. Do not lay them on their sides or place them upside down. Cushion them with plenty of crumpled packing paper.
  2. When packing plates, lay out a stack of wrapping paper an inch or so thick. Place a plate in the center, then grab the corners of a few sheets of the wrapping paper and bend them into the center of the plate. Place the next plate on top of this.
  3. When the paper has been used, flip the stack of plates over. There should be three or four plates, depending on how much wrapping paper was used. Re-wrap all of the plates with more wrapping paper and secure it with packing tape.
  4. Place the bundle of plates on its side in a small box on the layer of crumpled paper. Add more bundles of plates until everything is snug, then stuff corners with crumpled paper and cover everything with more layers of paper.
  5. Remember the most basic rule of packing, placing the heaviest items on the bottom and the lighter objects at the top. When your packaged bundles are 3 inches from the top of the box, fill the rest with additional crumpled paper.
  6. Tape the box shut and add a label that reads, “Fragile: This Side Up.”
  7. If you are storing the boxes, place fragile items on top of other items.