Organize Your Moving & Storage

Useful tips to help make your
storage easy and efficient.

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Storage Tips

  • Write down an inventory list and keep in a separate safe location
  • Protect your valuables with packing materials, towels, and moving blankets
  • Place items that you may need to access often in the front
  • Don’t store any food, perishables, toxins, or flammables
  • Label all boxes, make lists of what's in them, and even take photos. It will make your search easier when you urgently need something
  • Fill empty spaces in boxes with packing paper
  • Put lighter boxes on top of heavier ones. Use uniform size boxes for easy stacking
  • Declutter before packing
  • Choose clear storage bins if you will need easy access before unpacking

Furniture

  • Disassemble the furniture
  • Furniture with drawers can be utilized as additional storage places for items
  • Label all the parts and take photos to remember how to assemble them back together
  • Put hardware in bags and label them too
  • Wrap all parts to protect from scratches
  • Secure the furniture inside the storage containers
  • Load furniture vertically to save space

Fragile items

  • Store vertically, not horizontally
  • Use specialty boxes
  • Wrap with paper or foam
  • Label 'Fragile'

Clothes, Curtains and Electronic

  • Keep clothes on hangers and group with zip ties;
  • Pack either in garment bags, wardrobe boxes, or upside-down garbage bags;
  • Put smaller clothing in drawers;
  • Take pictures of connections beforehand
  • Label all cords and store them together with the appliances (preferably in the original boxes)
  • Protect with bubble wrap and moving blankets

When You Need a Portable Storage Container

  • Moving or between homes.
  • Staging your home for sale.
  • Extra space during remodeling.
  • Goods transportation.
  • Business relocation.

Create Space Storage has flexible storage solutions for all these and more life situations. Contact us to get your quote now!