PLAN YOUR MOVE INTELLIGENTLY

Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20920, 27 September 1939, Page 4

PLAN YOUR MOVE INTELLIGENTLY

ENGAGE AN EXPERT REMOVAL FIRM Try to fix your moving day for mid-week; at week-ends shopping

is difficult and delivery uncertain. Help may be hard to get, too, if anything goes wrong with the lights or the plumbing. Arrange with your removal firm in good time, so that you can pick your own date. And remember that although the little greengrocer round the comer offers to do the job for half what the regular removal firm quotes, you’ll probably be in pocket if you engage the latter. It is expert handling and packing that counts, and the men whose sole job it is “know how.” Having engaged your experts, leave them to do the job. They seldom appreciate advice from householders while lifting furniture or crating china, and so long as you let them alone they are responsible for any damage. But there are things you can do to help. For instance, lock all wardrobe and portable-cupboard doors, so that they can’t fly open at critical moments. Take out the keys and slip them on a ring, taking charge of these yourself. Don’t lock drawers, though. These may be packed with clothes (cover them well with a dust-cover or with newspaper) but don’t fill them up with fragile things or small objects liable to drop out easily. The bedding off each bed should be rolled into an individual bundle, of course. It is a useful plan to put into this clean sheets and pillowcases, ready for making up the bed quickly at the other end. Slip in a clean towel, too; it will save hunting for household linen at bedtime in the new house. Prepare Your New Home Beforehand Tie a coloured label to each bundle, matching one on its bedstead; if you have already tied a similar label to the door of the room into which the bed is to go, so much the better. The rest of the furniture for the same room can be marked to match. If you use coloured luggage labels these can be thriftily retrieved afterwards for putting to their original purpose. When having your new home cleaned down ready for the move, arrange to have cupboard and other shelves papered, to save time in putting stores away. Have fires laid, if any are needed. If possible put up curtain fixtures, or at least cup-hooks and temporary rods. Opinions are divided about laying carpets beforehand; the only time I did this I had to take them up afterwards for sending to the cleaners, the moving day having been a wet one. Allot one room as a refuge room, putting into it enough furniture to make it look homely and comfortable, and a rug or two on the floor. Not a single packing case or parcel is to go into it. Make this your living-room until the worst of the chaos is resolved. In your Wanted-on-Arrival luggage put a new and very becoming overall, and don’t do a stroke of work until you’ve got it on. Believe it or not, the work you do in it won’t seem nearly so hard ! **sX2Xs)<sXs>®®®®®<s^ THOUGHTS Loganberries in an ice-blue dish, Wreaths of pale grey smoke, and sails unfurled, The pungent smell of moss, orchids, friend fish, A baby s smile, a fern frond tightly curled . The vibrant whisperings of the world by day, The vital music of the skies, the seas, And breathless fragrance of green grass and hay, A crystal snowflake, and the might of trees.

Velvet shadows, sunlight on auburn hair, A puppys soulful eyes, a kitten’s paw, A dancer streaming through the soft cool air, Small things that keep us sane when nations war. —URSULA STUART LAIRD.