

By Julie DeLong, A-1 Freeman Moving Group
Early on, a detail that must be attended to is a place to store your possessions. If your storage needs correspond with a household move, when you're coasting down the road wondering which storage facility is best for you, continue driving. You have already picked a mover for trucking your life to a new residence, why not verify with them to see if they offer storage, too? The majority of professional moving companies provide warehouse storage--with the same seasoned crew to help you organize 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 will require a spot for any boats, jet skis, or motor homes that are too big to move with you. You can store those large items with your moving company, and again, you can usually park them on the premises or garage them inside—it's up to you.
Even if you're not moving, you could benefit from putting items in storage--if you've inherited some things, if you have a son or daughter who's boomeranging back to your houseback in the nest—any number of things can happen that requires more space for some time. Or, if you are contemplating moving and trying to declutter your home, you will need to create the appearance of hardly-lived in space, so everything on the counters, small furniture you trip over in the dark, and the things you need to basically live your life, all must go to storage until after your move in Killeen.
Once you have picked where to store your stuff, the next task you need to consider is how to pack all of your things for safe storage. The secret to packing crystal, dishes, and other fragile items is to wrap everything individually. You could do that with several types of supplies or insulation, it's really for you to decide which you pick—as long as plates and glasses are sufficiently secured from bumping against each other, use what you like best. Newsprint (not newspaper, newsprint is the plain tan paper that is 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 realize that mixing and matching depending on the individual item works best. Choose small, heavy duty boxes for fragile items. Beware that you don't wrap too tightly; items require some air space inside the wrap.
Some additional things that must have special attention when going to storage aren't always things that you'd think about.
Here is a short list:
And indeed, we are aware that you have good intentions of picking through all those stacks of college papers and junk mail from 1995 and shredding all the junk. Fortunately, A-1 Freeman Moving Group will always have storage in Killeen for you, until you can get that done.