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Yea moving house is a great opportunity to have a good clean out!

I'm amazed it has taken so long though, it will be a whole year since you first started this thread by the time you complete?

Eh you'd be surprised how many boxes it can end up filling - esp books. Course depends on the books. Papaback novels are fairly light; hardbacks and anything textbook or heavy on images tends to get heavy very quickly

 Kroem wrote:
Yea moving house is a great opportunity to have a good clean out!

I'm amazed it has taken so long though, it will be a whole year since you first started this thread by the time you complete?

Chunk of it was waiting for Dad’s place to sell, which would give me a firm budget and let me decide if I wanted a small mortgage. Which I didn’t. All in as a cash buyer. But, only because I found a nice place for my budget.

From acceptance of offer to completion will be a relatively svelte 3 months. I’d definitely recommend my conveyancer!


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 Overread wrote:
Eh you'd be surprised how many boxes it can end up filling - esp books. Course depends on the books. Papaback novels are fairly light; hardbacks and anything textbook or heavy on images tends to get heavy very quickly

290 Judge Dredd and 2000AD Hardback volumes. 50+ assorted GW hardback books.

This….is why I pay for professionals!

Last time 2 times I moved I packed all the boxes myself, but hired professionals to do all the lifting. I’m past the age where I could gather up some friends to do it for pizza and beer. Someone would end up dead or in the hospital with all our health issues.

+1 to packing your own boxes!

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:


290 Judge Dredd and 2000AD Hardback volumes. 50+ assorted GW hardback books.

This….is why I pay for professionals!

For novels/light paperbacks or dvd/video games use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTKK739?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

For hardbacks/artbooks/thick comics/textbooks - basically any heavier books - use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTKLZZZ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
They don't look big but that kind of book gets heavy fast, and whilst you can load heavier boxes up I honestly found this size about the right compromise between storing and comfortable carrying/stacking/moving

For smaller stuff that isn't books, odds and sods and stuff use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTJCJDS?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1


And use this for taping up the bottoms of those boxes https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002ZXV57C?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

Don’t forget it’s the bank holiday at the end of August, so there may well be sales on at furniture and appliance shops. I moved into my first house in May and made judicious use of holiday sales; I don’t think I paid full price for a single major item!

 Overread wrote:


For novels/light paperbacks or dvd/video games use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTKK739?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

For hardbacks/artbooks/thick comics/textbooks - basically any heavier books - use these https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DKTKLZZZ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1
They don't look big but that kind of book gets heavy fast, and whilst you can load heavier boxes up I honestly found this size about the right compromise between storing and comfortable carrying/stacking/moving

I found any of the cardboard boxes just felt precarious with any real volume of books in them, so went for smaller boxes.

Though I largely went to town on various sizes of hard plastic crates like these: https://www.diy.com/departments/strata-heavy-duty-black-60l-plastic-stackable-storage-box-lid/5021711050080_BQ.prd

Packed everything myself and then let some professionals do the hard work, and it was pretty effortless.


My previous moves were all done myself in the car, but that was when I was younger, had more time and a lot less stuff.

@MDG how far are you moving? I assume it's only a few miles within the local area?

The double-wall cardboard work well and books are fairly easy to pack since they fit into boxes and end up fairly solid in form on their own.

Single wall boxes are way more precarious and risky and only any good for light stuff.

I've also been stocking up on Really Useful Boxes but that is mostly for storing models inside. I've no chance of getting magnets up to standard on everything so a lot of them will end up filled with packing peanuts for my travel; but then I'm heading "into the north" so its a good 4 hour drive away

Moving about a mile or two up the road. Same town, different end.

Honestly depending on dates you might even be able to move a bunch of stuff over in bits instead of with removal.

Removal is ideal for the big bulky stuff, but models and such you might be able to just car over a day or so in bits.

As I have far more models then foam/magnet boxes I had to improvise.

I used towels and low wide boxes. Just alternate soft fluffy and fragile. Drove them myself, in multiple loads (as the moves were less then an hour drive)

Set up a folding table out of the way of the movers, and did it in multiple trips. Once the display cabinets were moved by people paid to lift heavy things, they all moved back into their spots.

Only worked because I had some overlap in time between the new/old places and they were not far. But it worked for high volumes of minis.

I moved a lot of minis cross-country using a similar method as the one listed above. Low height but wide plastic boxes with lids, like the kind you slide under a bed for storage.

I then used copious amount of paper towels to make walls, wrapped some of the more delicate pieces individually, and then filled any airspace at the top with more paper towels. Then I snapped the lids on and stacked them up in the back of the car.

I drove 16 hours including up and down mountain passes and it worked great with minimal damage that was easily fixed with some super glue on arrival and display.