You'll have to forgive me .. but I've never done this before!!!

Freedom Shipping are shipping boxes over for us. We pack them. I'll be putting lots of our summer clothes in the boxes - can I put them loose? I'll be using vacum pack bags for some of them, but will the others be ok? ~I'm thinking of damp etc ..... thank you!!!!

hi

we were talking to pickfords at an expo this year and they said not to put clothes in those bags because they sweat and make clothes go mouldy

Yes i'm in agreement with that .Don't use those bags they obviously don't allow any air flow and almost guarantee mouldy clothes on arrival.
If you do a search you'll see that is the general concensus.
I think the two options are folded into boxes or hanging up in specialist boxes but if you're packing your self then get some of those silica gel sachets from ebay and chuck them in too that will help !!!
Good luck
Sunbound

Load of nonsense!

I packed all our clothes into Lakeland vacu bags, as well as all our towels, sheets, bedding, table cloths, cushions - a total of 30 jumbo vacu sacks. Into each sack I put a small (25g) sachet of silica gel and two "Bounce" tumble dryer sheets.

The removal guys wrapped their special paper round each sack, turning each into a big package.

The sacks didn't stay "vacu": When they arrived, they'd all gone "plump" again to a greater or lesser degree. But everything had stayed clean, dry and fresh smelling. No need to wash anything. Could just hang up or pack away into cupboards.

Gina

We packed all ours into the boxes without vacuum packing, when they arrived they had all shrunk to about half their size.

Let me dispel any myths.

We packed all of our clothes, table cloths, sheets etc. in vacuum bags, with no silica gel, bounce or anything.

10 weeks later everything arrived in perfect condition.

We were advised against packing clothes in these bags by the removals companies, but we decided to go ahead at our own risk.

It is my belief that removal companies advise against vacuum bags in order to increase the volume and thus the cost of your shipment.

Incidentally the vacuum bags we used were not branded but the cheapest we could find on ebay, and I'm not Scottish.

Our clothes, bedding etc were packed in boxes, with no vacuum packing.

Everything arrived normal, just abit creased, no mould or funny smells.

We left everything for the packers to do so nothing was in those bags. Everything arrived as it left. Simple answer is if you have the bags you may as well use them. If you don't, don't waste your money buying them.

If they are vacuum packed, surely that means they are in a vacuum and therefore would not go mouldy etc. I should think they be creased to hell but ok.

Never even thought of it, just packed ours in a case and gave it to the shippers.

Hope they are ok.

M

I put mine in those huge big blue/red cheap laundry bags,also put tumble dry sheets in,smelt lovely when they arrived.
donna

We used cheap vacuum bags from Wilkinsons, no gel or anything. Fascinating watching a duvet shrink to nothing.....

Anyway, we told the shipping company and they weren't fussed.

Everything arrived without any mould, just creased, so don't bother ironing it all first.

yeah well... when you let the air back into the bag they'll grow big again