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Use Quality Cardboard Boxes When Moving

Posted in When Moving on the August 18, 2008

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Most people don’t think very much about cardboard boxes. Even if they are moving, putting things in storage, or filing their possessions, they don’t really bother to plan. They simply grab whatever happens to be at hand. You can get free cardboard boxes in a wide variety of places if you aren’t particular. You can get them in convenience stores, furniture stores basically any place that sells things. All you have to do is go in, ask if they have any boxes in the back, and carry them home with you. If you stop by two or three stores, you are almost guaranteed to find a cardboard box or two for nothing. Given this fact, why would anyone pay for cardboard moving boxes?

The answer is simple. The cardboard boxes that you get from food stores are generally of a pretty low quality. A lot of them have already been torn open, with little care being given to the integrity of the box. Of course, when you are packing up small boxes of durable, lightweight things like clothes, this doesn’t matter. You put your clothes pretty much anywhere and they will get to the destination intact. When you are moving books, furniture, expensive electronic equipment, and other heavy or fragile materials, however, the type of cardboard boxes you use can make a huge difference.

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Buying high-quality cardboard moving boxes perhaps at a packing store or a U-Haul rental place is always a good idea in my opinion. Of course, there is the durability issue that we already talked about, but there are other reasons besides that. One of the biggest reasons is that they are all of uniform size and shape. This can make it tremendously easier to pack particularly if you have a lot of stuff. If you are only taking a few things, it doesn’t really matter.

Of course, moving isn’t the only use for cardboard boxes. Cardboard storage boxes are also extremely important. Sometimes, they actually make a lot more sense than using file cabinets. You can still sort files in them, and they are cheap, light weight, and easy to move around. Of course, having the right cardboard shipping boxes is important, but not quite as important as having the correct packing materials.

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All About Moving Truck Rentals

Posted in When Moving on the June 11, 2008

We have numerous other articles written on this very subject. Each one tackles a different aspect of Moving Truck Rentals.

When you think of things that you do not like to do what tops your list? For me it has to be moving. We have moved four times since we were married and each time I swear will be the last. When we were first married we rented a duplex. My husband moved in the first of the month. I was on a lease in my apartment until the first of the next month so I slowly brought things over and put them away with each trip we made. After we lived there a year we bought a small farm house. We had not accumulated too many things so this move was not all that bad. Our friends and family helped us move. We loaded up pickups and cars and drove everything the twenty miles from the duplex to the country home. After we lived there for four years we found a house that was much newer and larger and that had more acreage with it. We again packed up trucks and cars and made several trips back and forth. That time we moved thirteen miles so the back and forth was not difficult. Twelve years later we decided to move again.

After being in a house that was quite large for twelve years we had accumulated many things. We were down sizing a great deal in both space of the house and outdoor space. We were moving from a twenty acre five bedroom home with a full basement into a two story three broom house with a partial basement and one acre of land. We were moving because this smaller home was on a beautiful lake. Prior to moving we took many of our belongings to a flea market and sold them. We needed to downsize a great deal. This move was forty miles and it needed to be done in a short time span because of the spacing of the closings. We decided that we needed to contact moving truck rentals to get a truck so we could get everything in one trip.

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Our closing on our existing home was at ten o’clock in the morning and the closing on the lake home was at two in the afternoon. The first one was in a town forty five miles from our home and the second closing was ten miles from the home we sold. When we called the moving truck rentals we wanted to pick up the truck early in the morning so it could be parked in the yard and ready to go when we came back from the second closing. We had from the time of the closing until ten the next morning to be out of the house.

We took one large load of outdoor things to the lake house when we did the walk through the day before, but this only touched the tip of everything that needed to be moved. The moving truck rentals had the truck ready for us at six o’clock in the morning. We had the truck until noon the next day or we would have additional fees. The moving truck rentals came with a dolly, packing materials and covers. It made the process much easier. Everything went smoothly and we had everything moved in the time frame. We agreed we will not move again for a very long time.

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