I own an antiques store in the heart of Texas and it’s become rather successful. So successful, in fact, that I needed to move to a more metropolitan area and reopen my shop in a larger facility. However, moving antiques is no small task. It requires a lot of patience and care. Some of the items that I deal with are virtually irreplaceable and it would be a shame to lose anything to carelessness. But I was determined that wasn’t going to happen. Fortunately, my business partner is a stickler for details and made it his job to figure out how to take care of the packing.

The first thing that he did was to consult with several specialty moving and packing companies that knew what they were doing when it came to  transporting delicate and valuable items. He actually went to visit these companies with his camera in order to get some examples of what needed to be done. This guy has our entire inventory committed to memory and knew exactly what type of questions to ask that would be relevant to our own stock of antiques. This meant that nothing was left to chance. The next step was to buy the proper packing materials.

This was a very big step, since it’s a fact that even the best packers are only as good as the packing materials that they use. I guess this is pretty much the same story with anyone who needs to use a tool in order to do something. But, in this case, we had a bit of an advantage. Because of what we now knew, we could get the right packing boxes and other supplies without having to spend a fortune. This was huge, since we had a ton of items to pack, but we weren’t making any money while we were in the process of moving.

We began contacting stores that sold the type of packing boxes that we needed and asked for their lowest quotes.Once it became clear that were shopping around, the lowest quotes were presented. There was no pressure, either, since they understood that we were an antique business and wouldn’t put up with any high pressure selling techniques. Once we had the materials that we needed, we began the process of packing some of the most hard to replace items. The rest of the antiques were packed by the moving company.