[78-L] Pack em up and move em out

[Geoffrey Wheeler]

When I moved five years ago, I self-packed and self-moved about 11,000 
78s and 10,000 LPs and other assorted musical media, magazines, books, 
etc. All the records were packed in sturdy boxes. I stacked the 78s 
(all in sleeves) horizontally, with dividers every 15 records or so. I 
did not fill the box to the top but left room for packing material at 
the top. Before putting anything in a box, I first put a divider on the 
bottom to smooth out any uneven areas and spread the weight of the 
records evenly. To pack the box, I used either newsprint packing paper, 
which I got from U-Haul, or newspapers. I would shape crude rolls of 
paper which I would then pack around the sides of each stack, from 
bottom to top. I would place another divider on top of the records and 
then pack in more paper so nothing could move in any direction. In 
essence, each box was a block. I then sealed each box with Post Office 
packing tape . With a felt-tip marking pen, I numbered each box and 
identified the general contents by label or principal artist. Only two 
78s broke. All the LPs arrived in perfect shape.