How to Pack Dishes for Moving

These relocating tips will ease your concerns about moving your breakables. Using the right kind of box when relocating for packing china, glassware and breakables can ensure a safe move of this precious cargo. Yes, any kind of box will do when that's all you have - just use more packing material for thinner boxes. If you can get them, boxes built for moving china and dishes are the best for breakables.

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Before you begin packing in your dishes, prep the box by laying down one or two sheets of clean packing paper and also line the sides so that the packing paper extends out of the box. After you are done filling the box, you'll want to take the portion of packing paper that is extending out and bundle up the whole thing and then tape up the box. You'll want to make sure that you fill the box so that it neither bulges nor sags in the middle.

All the glass dishes must be double wrapped by white newsprint paper. If one of the glass items should break during the move, the broken item will stay trapped in the paper and avoid spreading all over the box. By the time of the unpacking, you will not be injured or cut with the broken pieces. Some people choose to save money and use old newspaper to wrap dishes. This is a very big mistake because the newspaper ink can run out and stain the dishes. If you still want to save money on white newsprint paper, make sure to use white newsprint paper to wrap your dishes for the first wrap (the one that are closer to the dish) and you can simply use the normal daily newspaper for the second wrap.

Take shredded paper and stuff it all over the box in such a way that it creates a protective cover from all sides. This should be stuffed well, so the dishes are immobilized by it. Before closing the box, add a sheet of styrofoam. Now the dishes are ensconced tightly into a shock-resistant box. Now, seal the box very carefully.

Take the marker and carefully write in large legible letters "FRAGILE" on all the sides and "THIS END UP" with a large arrow showing which end should be up. Make sure that you put this box on the top of any stacks you have set up in your current staging area.