5 Tips for Labeling Your Moving Boxes
Moving is stressful for most people, even under the best circumstances. It’s helpful to find shortcuts to make your move easier and more efficient. Labeling your moving boxes is an easy way to simplify your move. Here are some techniques to make packing and unpacking easier when making your household move.
1. Color-Code Your Boxes
One simple way to label your boxes is to color-code them! All you need are colored stickers from an office supply or dollar store. Ways to help this technique succeed include:
- Choose a color for each room or type of content
- Label boxes with a designated color
- Place the sticker in the same visible spots on each box (all sides)
- Keep a list of what the color corresponds with
Color-coding your boxes is a simple way to label them since it makes it easier to place boxes in their correct room upon arrival at your new home.
2. Number Each of Your Boxes
Another technique is to number the boxes. Use a Sharpie or other heavy marker to mark each box with a number. Next, use a notepad to write down the number and list the contents inside each box. Keep this list safe so it’s not lost during the move. You can email it to yourself or text it to your household members.
3. Use a QR Code for Each Box
If you want to go with a more tech-oriented solution, use QR codes. Millions of businesses have used them daily for inventory, so why not your personal belongings? With an app, you can take a photo of your belongings and then print a QR code to secure onto each box. Then, upon arrival, simply scan the QR with your phone and instantly know what’s in it.
4. Pack and Label By Room
If inventorying each box is too much and you simply want to ensure boxes end up where they need to be, you can pack boxes and label them by room. You can do this one of two ways:
- Label each box with the name of the room it’ll go in
- Assign each room a number and then create a list of what room the number correlates to
This is probably one of the most simplified ways to label. It’s not highly detailed, but it’ll get the job done by ensuring boxes are in the correct rooms.
5. Use Visible Labeling for Fragile Items
Moving China sets, glassware, antiques, and other expensive, breakable, or irreplaceable items is always a little frightening. When boxing these items up, wrap and box them carefully. When you seal the box, label it “FRAGILE” in big, bold letterings on each side of the box, along with “THIS SIDE UP.”
For good measure, you can buy packing tape with a “fragile” denotation already printed on it and secure it around each box. If moving fragile and breakable items is worrying, you can also include packing and unpacking as part of your service with your professional movers.
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