Before you bust out the weight belts and hit the heavy lifting, there is plenty of leg work even the women-folk can help with to get each room ready for moving day. Renting the truck can be expensive, no matter which company you choose, so you will want to make sure you get started as soon as you know you’re on the move. Despite what might have worked for your Intro to Literature exam on Seis de Mayo, waiting until the night before or morning of your big move to start preparing will cost you dearly. For those of you whose first time it is packing up the house or apartment, here are some helpful tips to make sure your place is ready:Tip 1: You can never have too many boxes. Try your local grocery store. They probably have more boxes than they know what to do with. It’s not like they are mailing in those bananas from Guatemala in little white envelopes. The last thing you want to do is come up few boxes short. Loose items in the back of a moving truck are the recipe for personal effects jambalaya, a bitter dish that takes a long time to digest and sort out.Tip 2: This may seem like common sense to some of you, but when packing the boxes make sure the heavier items are on the bottom. Think back to the pyramid of cheerleaders at the high school half time show. Wasn’t there a good reason Suzy Sweatstains didn’t scale the peak? Also, try not to put your 16 lbs. bowling ball side by side with your lady’s porcelain doll collection. If the space is a must, you can always use the endless supply of clothes in her closet as a buffer.Tip 3: Label your boxes. You’ve seen the scoreboard animation with 3 hats and the baseball where you have to track the ball and pick a hat at the end. This is a lot like that, except there are 30 different hats filled with 30 various contents and you have to track each one over the course of days, maybe weeks. Make it easy on yourself and just be complete and descriptive when writing down what you put in each box.