Have you ever ever discovered your self questioning tips on how to pack your jewellery when you may have a LOT of jewellery?? This dilemma was very actual for me when Mr. DitL and I purchased our new home a short time in the past. Right here’s what I did to maintain my treasures secure in transit.
My jewellery assortment has grown fairly a bit within the decade since I final wrote about tips on how to pack your jewellery for a transfer. That’s excellent news for the collector in me, however packing a jewellery assortment does turn into exponentially tougher when you may have extra jewellery to maneuver.
One thing that was new this time was that I couldn’t instantly unpack my assortment: I truly waited MORE THAN A YEAR to get my pretties again out, as a result of that’s how lengthy it took for Mr. DitL and I to perform the work on our new home that required contractors coming out and in. I didn’t need my treasures on show till our house was carried out being a piece website.
Fortunately, every part is now out and I’ll have one other submit for you quickly about my spectacular new jewellery storage and show setup. It’s GLORIOUS, if I do say so myself.
So how do you pack your jewellery when you may have a LOT of jewellery? Fastidiously, slowly, and strategically.
First I put every part particularly fragile or that I wished easy accessibility to in jewellery journey circumstances. Fortunately, being a jewellery author means I’ve fairly just a few jewellery journey circumstances available (listed below are some good ones, should you want recs).
Subsequent, I went to my stash of jewellery packaging (all these small cardboard packing containers and tiny plastic baggage that any jewellery lover finally ends up buying) and used them to pack every part else that wants the help of a field. Fragile/vintage pendants, delicate earrings, and so on. Massive items like assertion necklaces and cuff bracelets went in jewellery pouches.
As soon as all of the little packing containers and pouches had been packed, I bundled all of them in shoeboxes.
Not probably the most glamorous supplies, however I’m proud to say that I didn’t want to purchase a single factor to pack my jewellery for this transfer: it’s all issues I already owned and repurposed jewellery packaging I saved from previous purchases.
Subsequent, I packed my pendant necklaces utilizing the drawer liner technique of packing necklaces! Fortunately I had drawer liner left over from my final transfer. I’ve a complete submit on this method right here, so I’m not going to go over it in depth, besides to say that it’s nonetheless the easiest way I’ve ever tried to pack numerous necklaces rapidly and safely.
As soon as my necklaces had been all safely rolled up in drawer liner, I stacked the rolls in shoeboxes.
As a result of I’ve too many earrings for any jewellery journey case in existence, I used two plastic bead organizers (additionally leftover from my final transfer, however initially from a craft retailer) to pack all of them up. I used scraps of drawer liner to cushion the earrings that wanted delicate padding.
After that, I stacked all of the shoeboxes and jewellery journey circumstances in some plastic packing containers from the Container Retailer (in case your jewellery gained’t be unpacked instantly, it’s good to preserve air, mud, and water out!) and drove every part over to a relative’s home till the contractors had been carried out at our new place.
You may see how my reduction at ending the packing instantly transitioned to extreme separation nervousness when it was time to drop every part off at a relative’s home for safekeeping. I nonetheless can’t consider my assortment was caught in these packing containers for over A YEAR. I missed my pretties a lot!!
That stated, it was completely value it to know that my jewellery assortment was secure. If you happen to be taught nothing else from this submit, be taught this: your jewellery ought to by no means ever EVER be within the fingers of movers.
You will discover hyperlinks for every part I used to pack my jewellery right here, on this ShopMy listing.
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