

By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group
One of the first details that needs to be decided upon is the location to store your possessions. If your storage needs go along with with a household move, when you're drifting down the road wondering which storage facility is best for you, keep driving. You have already picked a mover for transporting your belongings to a new residence, why don’t you check with them to see if they provide storage, also? Many professional moving companies provide warehouse storage--with the same professional employees to assist you in organizing your stored boxes and furniture that packs the moving truck for your move.
If you are moving internationally, or your move is not long-term, you'll require a plan for any boats, jet skis, or motor homes that are too big to move with you. You can store those vehicles with your moving company, and again, you can simply park them on the premises or park them inside—it's your call.
Even if you are not moving, you might need extra space--if you have inherited some things, if you've got an adult child who is boomeranging back to your houseback in the nest—lots of things can happen that necessitates more space for a little bit. Or, if you are pondering moving and trying to declutter your house, you will want to form the appearance of hardly-lived in space, so everything on the counters, small furniture you fall over in the dark, and the things you need to generally live your life, all must go to storage until after your move in Little Rock.
After you have figured out where to store your items, the next task you should ponder is how to pack all of your things for safe storage. The trick to packing crystal, china, and other delicate things is to wrap everything individually. You could do that with a few different kinds of supplies or insulation, it's really your call which you prefer—as long as each piece is appropriately protected against knocking against each other, use what you like best. Newsprint (as opposed to newspaper, newsprint is the plain off-whiteish paper that comes in large sheets at any moving supply or big box store), bubble wrap, packing peanuts, foam padding--any and all will work, but you will find that mixing and matching determined by the individual item works best. Select small, heavy duty boxes for delicate items. Take care that you do not wrap too tightly; things require some air space inside the wrap.
Some additional things that require special consideration when going to storage aren't always things that you would realize.
Here is a short list:
And by all means, we are aware that you have great intentions of sorting through all those boxes of college papers and cancelled checks from 1996 and throwing out all the junk. However, A-1 Freeman Moving Group will always have storage in Little Rock for you, until you can get that done.