Moving with hats

[anon`]

Anybody have some good advice on packing them into as small an area as possible? I've got about fifteen that I'd like to take on an interstate move, but the boxes both take up a lot of room, and are unwieldy. I'd hoped to find a larger box that I could stack four or five into, but nobody seems to make a nice, tall box with 18" to each base side.

So... thoughts? No, I don't need to bring the boxes, necessarily, but I still have to be able to protect the hats, regardless...

 

[Benzadmiral]

Anybody have some good advice on packing them into as small an area as possible? I've got about fifteen that I'd like to take on an interstate move, but the boxes both take up a lot of room, and are unwieldy. I'd hoped to find a larger box that I could stack four or five into, but nobody seems to make a nice, tall box with 18" to each base side.

So... thoughts? No, I don't need to bring the boxes, necessarily, but I still have to be able to protect the hats, regardless...

If you have a hat shop near you, ask 'em if they'll give you some of their old five- or six-hat shipping boxes. These are tall boxes with the round-the-crown rings (I don't know what they're called) inside, to keep the hats separate and prevent them from losing their shape or being crushed all together. The big hat boxes such as the ones modern Stetsons come in won't go inside, no, but the hats will travel just fine.

Meyer the Hatter gave me a couple when I was moving to CO, and when I asked a few months ago, they said they'd be glad to give me some more.

 

[anon`]

I knew some box maker, somewhere, had to make something like that. Cheers!

 

[John in Covina]

If you are careful you can stack some hats one on top of the other and you can get 2 or more in one box.
Be careful not to "scrunch" them and screw up the ribbons.
Also don't leave them stacked for very long, time is the enemy.

 

[anon`]

Already looked into that, and it's not economical in my case. I'm bascially left with a stack of hats that's... two hats high. So, I gain no space, lose stabilization, and still need a bigger box!

 

[TomS]

Just a thought... would it be possible to go to a "UPS store", and get them boxed-up there? Those folks do custom boxes, and its fairly reasonable. Also, rather than "move" them, maybe you could ship them out, and pick them up when you arrive?

Best of luck with the move!!