How to pack for a move in one day

Packing for moving is about planning and preparations. But sometimes you may not have enough time to do that. When you are short of time for packing for a moving, one of the best options is to hire professional packers. You can find such services on the website of Paradise Move & Storage.

If you don’t want to hire professional packers, you can pack your property by yourself. It will be challenging, you will spend a lot of energy and should be fast. But it is still possible. In this article we prepared some pieces of advice on how to pack your belongings for a move in one day.

Recruit as many helpers as possible

If you need to pack stuff in one day, you have to be ready for plenty of tasks. It will be hard to handle everything alone. The more people, the faster the work will be done. Try to find as many helpers as you can. Of course, if you don't find helpers, professional packers from Paradise Move & Storage will easily help you to pack your belongings.

What you can do to find helpers:

• ask your family, including kids;
• ask your friends, you can buy some coffee or other drinks to thank them;
• ask your close friend or relatives to look after small children while you pack your belongings.

Of course, you need to ask people to help you a bit in advance, so they can plan their day and you will not lose time to find helpers on the day you need to pack. When the team is ready, give a task to each member. Ask one person to take things out of wardrobes, shelves, drawers, another — to wrap items with packing paper or plastic wrap, nextone - to put stuff in boxes. You also can divide people by territory. Make one person in charge of one room or part of the room.

Start as early as possible

It is obvious that you need to start packing as early as you can. Make sure you set an alarm at an early hour. You can set several alarms and if you fall asleep after first, the next one will wake you up.

Have a quick breakfast and start packing. Try to cook some food for dinner in advance on the day before to save time while packing. Don't be distracted during the day, don't watch TV or skroll Instagram. Take a short coffee break and continue to pack your stuff. The day or two before packing, make sure you have all supplies. If you run out of boxes or packing paper, you will have to go to the shop and will lose some time.

Pack your essentials and your most valuable items first

When you are in a hurry there are more chances you can get tired, lose or break something. Pack your essential items first. The list of essentials contains documents, clothes, mobile devices and chargers, medicine, hygiene products etc. Pack them separately while you are fresh and remember everything you need to pack to essentials. Think also about the last night before moving and the first day and night after moving. All your property will be packed and you need to prepare things to use before you unpack everything.

Think over what valuable things you have. It may be jewelry, branded clothes or some valuable and memorable things you want to save. Try to pack them right after essentials while they are not lost in a mess of packing.

Skip the sorting

If you had more time, you would sort your stuff and get rid of what you don't need. But you can't do everything in one day, so it is better to skip sorting and start to pack. So will not have time to sort your stuff properly.

What you should do is to try to art it while you pack. When you find any item you think you don't need anymore, check if it is damaged. If so, put it in the box that you will take away. Once you finish with packing you can take this bow to the recycling center. Prepare one more box for things you just don't want to take with you. Maybe you have some old good-quality clothes, but you don't like it now — donate it to some volunteer centers.