Rather spend that night in a hotel or with friends and lower your stress levels. These are called fillers. Bedding, duvets, pillows, soft toys and inexpensive clothing such as T-shirts are ideal fillers. It is a good idea to look for these before the packing teams arrive as it really helps to speed up the pack-out if these items are readily available. In a total household move, you can pack some items yourself and we are happy to provide cartons for this.
Many clients like to pack their own clothing, for example.
If you want to pack your books please only pack them into the small book cartons as standard cartons full of books are generally too heavy to handle. You should not pack anything breakable as owner-packed goods cannot be insured against breakage. For a small move, many clients pack themselves and we are happy to provide packing materials for this. The same insurance conditions apply. This is the South African value.