At 07:35 PM 5/19/02, you wrote: >Ronn Blankenship wrote: > > > > At 01:22 PM 5/19/02, Julia Thompson asked: > > >Can anyone recommend a good way to pack sharp knives for moving? > > > > At 02:05 PM 5/19/02, Jon wrote: > > > > >2) For myself, I took chipboard, which are very thin pieces of cardboard > > >that usually can be purchased at a Mailboxes etc. (I got them from my > > >office) and cut and folded them around the blades into makeshift > > >sleeves, then taped them shut. Not as efficient, but I have a couple of > > >big butcher knives that couldn't be slipped easily into a vase. Vitally > > >important that the cardboard and not the tape faces the blade. > > > > This is what I did. I used corrugated cardboard obtained by cutting up > boxes. > >Cool. And we've determined that the few boxes held over from the *last* >move, which was about 8 years ago, aren't in good enough shape to be >used for packing much of anything, so I can cannibalize those.... > > Julia
The boxes I used in my last move aren't in very good shape, either. Problem is, there's still a lot of stuff in them. It doesn't help their condition that I have to periodically dig through some of them trying to find something . . . -- Ronn! :) Where The Heck Can I Put All This Junk? Maru
