From Cool Tools comes this tip:

Plastic Stretch Wrap Packing

If you are moving yourself, you don't need boxes for most non-fragile items such as books. Just stack the books, wind some stretch wrap around them, and you're done. This is a cheap, quick option and since the wrap is transparent, you can see what you've got -- a very useful feature when you have not yet unpacked but you need to find something. I even use stretch wrap to contain and protect clothes on hangers. When you unpack, you cut off the stretch wrap, and there's virtually nothing to throw away (no empty-box disposal problem).

-- Charles Platt

posted by mrflip at 10:02PM CST on September 29