What do you use and where did you get it
how do you keep your plates, cups and glasses in place, what do you use and where did you get it?
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Cups and glasses go into a shallow cabinet that holds them tightly when the cabinet is full. Plates stack in a flat drawer that latches itself when closed. Except for two or three coffee mugs, everything is hard tough plastics or shatter-resistant ceramics.
Flat things that like to rattle in a stack get sheets of plastic packing foam; that would be pans, griddles, etc but I would use it for ceramic plates if I wanted to carry the extra weight of ceramics. I am still using packing materials left over from a move 12 years ago, but you can find the sheet foam where moving supplies are sold, like U-Haul. It has largely replaced paper packing materials.
In deep cabinets when larger pans and other larger containers are kept, I will use my paper towel rolls to cushion things and limit movement. A general cabinet loading principle is to use softer things to separate harder things that knock together.
More than choosing and finding packing materials, the solution is more a matter of working out what safely stores where, and how to pack it in so that things have little freedom to move.
When we were RV shopping, my wife inspected the furnishings to work out how she would pack the kitchen, bathroom, wardrobes, where she would put the pantry foods, etc. This was a big factor in choosing the RV we did, we looked at many that did not have storage she would consider usable. She worked out where almost everything goes, for the inside, and since she died I haven't done much to change it.
Flat things that like to rattle in a stack get sheets of plastic packing foam; that would be pans, griddles, etc but I would use it for ceramic plates if I wanted to carry the extra weight of ceramics. I am still using packing materials left over from a move 12 years ago, but you can find the sheet foam where moving supplies are sold, like U-Haul. It has largely replaced paper packing materials.
In deep cabinets when larger pans and other larger containers are kept, I will use my paper towel rolls to cushion things and limit movement. A general cabinet loading principle is to use softer things to separate harder things that knock together.
More than choosing and finding packing materials, the solution is more a matter of working out what safely stores where, and how to pack it in so that things have little freedom to move.
When we were RV shopping, my wife inspected the furnishings to work out how she would pack the kitchen, bathroom, wardrobes, where she would put the pantry foods, etc. This was a big factor in choosing the RV we did, we looked at many that did not have storage she would consider usable. She worked out where almost everything goes, for the inside, and since she died I haven't done much to change it.