Kitchen Packing Hacks That Save Time and Protect Your Belongings
Ask anyone who has moved house what gave them the most trouble and it is rarely the sofa or the wardrobe. It is the kitchen. The kitchen has your heaviest things, your most breakable things, your sharpest things, and your liquids — all in the same room, all needing different treatment. Pack it carelessly and you will arrive at the new place with broken plates, oil-soaked boxes, and a mixer grinder missing half its parts. These are the hacks that actually make a difference. Before You Pack Anything - Photograph Your Cabinets Take two minutes and photograph the inside of every cabinet and drawer before you start emptying them. It sounds unnecessary until you are standing in a new kitchen three days after moving trying to remember where everything lived. Those photos will save you a lot of guesswork. Use the Move to Cut Your Kitchen Down Open everything. Every cabinet, every drawer, every shelf at the back you have not touched in a year. You will find a pressure cooker...