How to Pack Bathroom Items for a Move

The professional movers at All My Sons Moving & Storage can help pack every room in your home, including the bathroom, with our special packing services. Will you be loading the bathroom into boxes yourself? Follow our 5 step guide for getting everything to your new home safely.

From your bathroom toiletries to your nautical-themed décor items, your bathroom is full of fresh scents, happy luxuries, and things you can’t really be comfortable without. All those bottles and basins need to find their way to your new home somehow, and you want to avoid spills and messes if possible. Pack with special care, and your new home’s bathroom will feel like a spa-like oasis in no time.

Cabinets full to the bursting and countertops cluttered with everything from skin care to shaving cream? The first thing you should do when prepping your bathroom for packing is to do some serious decluttering. Take careful stock of everything you have in your bathroom and ask yourself if you’re using it regularly or if maybe you should part with it.

Discard and throw out expired medications, half-used bottles of moisturizer you don’t like, and empty containers you aren’t using to store anything else.

If you’re aiming not to be wasteful, you might be able to donate unopened items like wrapped soap bars, shampoo bottles, and packaged toothbrushes to your local homeless shelter or domestic violence shelter.

Every home has essentials that make daily living possible. These are the items you should pack last and unload first. Having your bathroom essentials immediately on hand will make your first week in your new home so much more manageable. 

Put these items in either your bathroom essentials box or your essentials and emergencies bag:

• Soap:  Scrub those germs away with the soap you pack with your bathroom essentials. You’ll be able to wash your hands right as you settle in. 

• Toilet Paper: When you gotta go, you need toilet paper. You’ll be able to dash right into your new bathroom if you’ve got toilet paper to unload first.

• Toothpaste and Toothbrush: Do not skip your dental hygiene routine. Keep these in your essentials boxes so you can brush your teeth right after the post-move dinner.

• Towels: One set of hand towel and at least one bath towel so you can dry off after your post-move shower.

• Shower Curtain: There’s a high likelihood your new house or apartment does not come equipped with one of these. Pack one with your essentials so that you can wash off immediately at your new place.

• Shampoo and Conditioner: Greasy hair after the move? Not a problem if you’ve got your essentials for hair-washing in your essentials and emergencies bag.

• Medications: Your daily medicines and your emergency medicines should always be on your person during your move in your bag. 

If you have extra moving supplies then you can differentiate your essentials boxes from boxes that can wait to be unloaded by using brightly colored tape to label them. 

Tape lids of bottles shut and then tuck them into sealable plastic bags. This will help contain a mess should anything burst, leak, or otherwise spill while in your moving box. You can also bag any open soap bars. If you have open soap dispensers, transfer the contents into sealed bottles.

Line the bottoms of your boxes with bubble wrap and start packing the heaviest items, like your stone soap dish, first. Wrap sealed plastic bags in additional packing paper or bubble wrap for extra protection.

Once your box is comfortably full and not too heavy, pack lighter bathroom items like tissue boxes and towels over the heavy items. If you have run out of light items then pack the empty space in the box with additional packing material like packing paper or peanuts. This will help keep the box’s contents from shifting too much during transit. 

Make sure you can lift your box before you seal it. If you are unable to lift the box then repack the box with lighter items inside so that you do not run the risk of trying to transport an overloaded box.

Is the box ready? Seal it with packing tape and use a black permanent marker to label the box. In lieu of creating a full moving inventory, write out the contents of the box in as much detail as possible. Make sure to label if a box contains essentials so you remember to unpack it first at your new home.

Give the bathroom drawers and cabinets one more look before you head out with your bathroom boxes, and then proceed to take your bathroom items to your new home. 

Does packing the bathroom sound like a bore? You can get professional packing from All My Sons Moving & Storage and focus on the moving tasks that are more important to you. With 90+ locations nationwide, All My Sons has all the services you need to go local or long-distance. Use the online quote form to get started on your move right away.