Effectively Moving Clothes on Hangers

If you’re moving soon, you’re probably deep in the process of safely packing your belongings to get ready for the trip. Of course, that includes everything in your closet. It’s time-consuming to pack up your clothes on hangers for a move, so you’ll want to make sure that you’re doing it in a time-effective fashion that won’t damage anything. And if you’ve got lots of items hanging in your closet, you’ll want to take even greater care. Here are the ground rules of moving clothes on hangers.

Special Care for Special Clothes on Hangers

Perhaps the first thing you’ll want to make sure that your high-end clothes are traveling in safety. Expensive suits and dresses should travel in wardrobe boxes – specialty moving boxes with built-in rods for hanging clothes. These are available at many moving companies, as well as online retailers like Amazon. They’re usually quite sturdy and come with about two to three feet of rack space. However, they can be on the expensive end of moving boxes, costing $20 to $50 for each box. For this reason, you’ll probably only want to get as few of them as possible, just enough to create hanging room for the most expensive items in your closet.

The Common Hack for Clothes on Hangers

For any hanging items that don’t need the deluxe care of a wardrobe box, there’s a trick that many use to carry around bundles of clothes on hangers with relative ease. You’ll need some 30-gallon drawstring trash bags for this. Lay a group (no more than 10) of clothing items on the floor, make a small hole in the bottom of a trash bag, and then pull the tops of the hangers up through the hole. The drawstring will be at the bottom, and you can pull it closed to secure the clothes on hangers inside. At this point, it also helps to keep the hanger hooks together with a twist-tie to make sure no hangers slip back down into the trash bag. Before long, you’ll have everything bagged up to make moving clothes on hangers much simpler.

Extra Protection

If you’re willing to go the extra mile for protection when moving clothes on hangers, there are always garment bags. Usually classified as luggage, garment bags span a large range of sizes and styles. While more luxurious garment bags are made from canvas, leather, or vinyl, you can also ask your local dry cleaner if they have any free plastic ones.