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Old 01-19-2015, 08:11 AM
 
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There has to be an easier way to folding everything only to have to rehang things once we arrive at our new home?
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Old 01-19-2015, 08:25 AM
 
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Get a travel bag for suits or just lay them flat (with the hangers) on top of whatever boxes of stuff you have in the trunk or back seat or wherever.
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Old 01-19-2015, 08:30 AM
 
Location: Native of Any Beach/FL
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I buy huge heavy plastic bags at depot make a little hole on the top n drape the bag over my good clothe say 10 hangers at a time- and as they are the commercial bags long enough to tie at the bottom - this works great- and usually go in my car. But if you are using a commercial mover, not sure if they take that??I have a lot of nice clothe and end up with least 15 bags
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Old 01-19-2015, 08:51 AM
 
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You can get boxes that have a rod in them that you can hang clothes in, specifically for that purpose. If you don't want to do that, what I do is take a stack of clothing, like 5 or so items together, and fold the items over a couple times and lay them in a box. When they are in bundles like that they tend to not really wrinkle so much.
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Old 01-19-2015, 09:03 AM
 
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I've done what tinytrump does and it has worked well for shorter distance moves. Recently my family moved 3 hours from our home town and we had to fit a huge amount of stuff into a moving truck and I felt that the plastic bags would have just slid around in the truck and/or made the rest of the packed things unstable in the moving truck. So this time I found a bunch of large boxes and just pulled the clothes out of the closet leaving them on the hangers and packed them in the boxes. I put a group of them in at a time with the bottom of the clothes laying down flat in the box first and folding the top half over the bottom half with the hangers touching the side of the box and every time a put a new bunch in I switched the direction so that hangers were not all on one side of the box so the weight and thickest (hanger) part was staggered from one side to the other from the bottom to the top of the box. The boxes get heavy with all of those clothes in them so you have to be careful not to use boxes that are too big or they're hard to carry. When you go to unpack them you just grab the handfuls of hangers grouped together in bunches and pull them out and hang them up. You can also put the clothes in plastic bags before putting them in the boxes (which I did the first few boxes I packed) but it takes much longer, cost a lot for the bags and I found the clothes in bags versus not in bags didn't travel any better and took longer to unpack since you have to remove all of the bags.
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Old 01-19-2015, 10:56 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Those boxes designed specifically for hanging clothes were worth every penny on our 1k mile move. We fit hubby's suits, dress shirts, belts and dress shoes in one and most of my and daughters stuff in another. Open the box and take your stuff straight to the closest.
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Old 01-19-2015, 12:26 PM
 
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Thanks for all the tips. We will be moving out of state so the clothes may be packed away for up to a week.

Kab0906, do you remember what those boxes are called?
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Old 01-19-2015, 01:06 PM
 
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Thanks for all the tips. We will be moving out of state so the clothes may be packed away for up to a week.

Kab0906, do you remember what those boxes are called?
Wardrobe boxes
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Old 01-19-2015, 01:15 PM
 
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holly, google "wardrobe boxes for moving" and you'll find they're all over the place - you can buy or rent them. Good luck on your move.
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Old 01-19-2015, 03:11 PM
 
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Buy a wardrobe box or two. Hang your stuff in there and move it directly into your closet. Our stuff was on the truck 10 days - no problems. If you have plastic dry cleaner bags you should put them over your clothes to prevent too much wrinkling and crushing.
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