Junk Drawer – Packing Tip of The Month

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In a recent HireAHelper blog post we dove into the subject of getting organized – with a picture of a drawer that serves as the perfect segue into our packing tip for January. If you’ve been on enough pack jobs – or even if you’ve been on just one – you may have come across a kitchen or desk or night stand drawer full of a mishmash of items that need to go into a box. After the initial lump in the gut at such a prospect you may have then felt tempted to dump the contents of the drawer into a book box, found some dish towels or other linens and such to fill the carton and taped it shut. (This kind of urge is really only theoretical, right?…)

You’re right, we aren’t professional drawer organizers, we are movers. But a few extra seconds and a few sheets of packing paper can make your customer think you are some kind of organizational wizard, Or at least a careful mover, not to mention a pretty cool guy. It might even influence an awesome review.

I came across this bit of fun on a recent pack. ‘Lots of important memorabilia in there,’ the woman told me, which clearly was a nice way of saying I’d better take care of these things.

Admittedly, this was a bit of a lay-up as far as packing boxes of random drawer items goes. A half dozen stacks of similarly-sized cards and papers and I was good to go (after I found a couple of towels from a nearby linen closet to fill the carton). The stuff in the drawer in the photo from the blog post poses, on the surface, a bit more of a challenge. Still, this should only take a few moments.

You might:

• Wrap those big square-ish items on the left in one sheet of paper
• Stack those business cards and other smaller square-ish bits in another
• Put pens, screwdrivers, leatherman (that silver plier-esque tool thing) and any other long skinny items together
• Gently encourage the rest into a wrapped bundle or two of what we’ll call ‘miscellaneous miscellany’

And lo and behold, these few neatly-wrapped bundles turn that mess into a presentable package your customer will appreciate.

People pay us to pack because they really, really, really don’t want to do it themselves. But if we are simply dumping their things into a carton they might think they made a mistake. ‘Well heck, I could have done that.’ Instead, make the customer feel that not only are they glad someone else did the packing, they are delighted that it turned out to be you.

next: Our Pro Tip for January –>