The Best Supplies and Packing Advice for Making Moving ...

When possible&#;especially if you&#;re packing up several rooms&#; worth of boxes&#;buy the best-quality tape you can: You&#;ll need approximately one roll of tape for every 15 to 20 boxes.

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For most moves, the standard Scotch Tough Grip Moving Packaging Tape is great. You can get a good price on a multipack, and I&#;ve used it in hundreds of moves. At 1½ inches wide, it secures boxes weighing up to 80 pounds and usually costs under $3 a roll.

If you know some of your boxes are going into long-term storage, or you anticipate a very fraught move, consider using stronger Scotch Storage Tape. This tape is similar to Scotch Tough Grip Moving Packaging Tape (above). But this one has a heavier adhesive, which stays stuck through temperature fluctuations from -25 to 160 degrees Fahrenheit.

If you have large boxes&#;or you simply want the toughest (and most expensive) tape&#;Gorilla  Tape Tough & Wide Shipping Tape seals most boxes with just one strip. (Note that it&#;s pricey and won&#;t fit standard tape dispensers.) For very heavy boxes (over 100 pounds), try reinforced strapping tape.

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Seal boxes faster with a tape gun

Based both on my own and on previous testing for this guide, the Uline H-150 Tape Dispenser is Wirecutter&#;s favorite tape gun. The H-150 was easier to load and more efficient at cutting tape than two other, popular dispensers: the Tape King TX100 Packing Tape Dispenser Gun and the Scotch Commercial Grade Shipping Tape Dispenser. In tests, the Uline dispenser&#;s finer teeth cut tape quickly, without a lot of pressure. And a lever folds down and stays down, so you can easily thread tape through the roller. The other dispensers struggled to tear through tape.

Organizing with Sharpie markers, labels, and apps

To know what&#;s what during a move, you should label every box, bin, and bag. The best way to do that is to have plenty of Sharpie markers on hand. They&#;re inexpensive, so go nuts&#;one per person or one in each room, one at the door, and another in the truck. That way no one is tempted to &#;label it later&#; or to label only a couple sides of a box just to save ink. And by using Sharpie markers, you&#;ll end up with big, legible labels (such as &#;hand towels, shower stuff, toiletries&#; or at least &#;bathroom&#;), so you won&#;t have to decode a stack of mystery boxes at your new home. If you hire movers, this makes unloading easier for them as well.

To label plastic bins or odd boxes or items, try Scotch Masking Tape, which you can write on. Some people also prefer to use a system of labels. Already marked, these sticker labels make it a breeze to organize each room. Put them all in the same location on every box, and color-code them by room (this is especially important if you&#;re reusing older boxes with outdated content labels all over them). First you should write the destination room, and then note the contents underneath that (if the label is too small, just write that info on the box itself).

If you have a particularly complicated move (some boxes going into storage and others to a new house, for example), or you prefer to know exactly where everything is at all times, consider using an organizing app. Some apps, like Encircle, are designed for home inventory but easily work for moving. Or keep track of every box with a tracking app, such as Moving Organizer Lite. If you like, you can also piece together your own tracking system with apps like Evernote.

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