{"id":25693,"date":"2014-12-22T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-22T18:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/?p=25693"},"modified":"2019-08-05T06:19:14","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T13:19:14","slug":"packing-santas-bag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/22\/packing-santas-bag\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing Santa&#8217;s Bag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Claus.jpg\"><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-25765\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Claus.jpg\" alt=\"Santa's Bag\" width=\"717\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Claus.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Santa-Claus-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 717px) 100vw, 717px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Do you ever wonder how Santa&#8217;s bag gets packed for Christmas? Every year Santa has to deliver presents to millions of good little girls and boys around the world. I had the chance to meet Santa himself last year, so I asked him, &#8220;How do you make everything fit in your bag without breaking things?&#8221; &nbsp;He told me that to make all of those toys fit in one small red sack takes a little bit of magic and a lot of planning.<\/p>\n<h3>What You Need to Pack Santa&#8217;s Bag<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-25700\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Packing-Santas-Bag-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Packing Santa's Bag for Christmas\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Packing-Santas-Bag-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Packing-Santas-Bag-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>One bag small enough to fit on a sleigh in red or green<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"U-Haul Biodegradable Packing Peanuts\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Protective-stuff\/Biodegradable-Packing-Peanuts?id=730&amp;utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20141222-packingsantasbag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Packing peanuts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"U-Haul Enviro-Bubble Bubble Wrapt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Protective-stuff\/Enviro-Bubble-Box?mid=98&amp;utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20141222-packingsantasbag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bubble wrap<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"U-Haul Furniture Pads\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Protective-stuff\/Furniture-Pad?id=2670&amp;utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20141222-packingsantasbag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Furniture pads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"U-Haul Tie Down Rope\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingSupplies\/Rope-tie-downs\/Tie-Down-Sisal-Rope?id=3250&amp;utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movingsupplies&amp;utm_content=20141222-packingsantasbag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rope<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Elves or <a title=\"U-Haul Moving Help\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/MovingHelp\/?utm_campaign=uhaulsm&amp;utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=movinghelp&amp;utm_content=20141222-packingsantasbag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Moving Help<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Magic Dust<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Properly Wrap the Items<\/h3>\n<p>Santa and his elves are great at making sure your presents aren&#8217;t broken when you open them as a child on Christmas morning. Santa will use packing peanuts and bubble wrap on items that are fragile. For larger items and things that can be scratched, Santa will cover item with furniture pads. For more tips on packing almost anything check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/category\/packing-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">posts in our packing category<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Visiting-Santa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-25701\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Visiting-Santa-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Me visiting Santa Claus last year\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Visiting-Santa-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Visiting-Santa-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uhaul.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Visiting-Santa.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Separate According to Geography and Route<\/h3>\n<p>You can&#8217;t have everything all jumbled together. This is where the planning comes in. Santa&#8217;s bag is organized according to the route he takes, so that wherever he is, the toys he is delivering right now are easily accessible. To achieve this, the elves at the North Pole lay out everything ahead of time grouped by neighborhood. Once everything is grouped they begin the process of actually loading it into Santa&#8217;s bag.<\/p>\n<h3>Use Tiers<\/h3>\n<p>This is important. As <a title=\"How to Load a Moving Truck\" href=\"https:\/\/movinginsider.com\/2012\/08\/14\/how-to-load-a-moving-truck\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">when loading a moving truck<\/a>&nbsp;or sleigh, Santa&#8217;s elves&nbsp;want to use tiers and cells when packing Santa&#8217;s bag. Items are grouped within a bag. Heavier items are not placed on top of fragile items that they could crush or break, then when a section is all loaded up it gets secured in place with rope or straps. In between tiers Santa&#8217;s elves sprinkle magic dust. The magic dust shrinks the items until they are removed from the bag. Once all of the tiers are packed, the elves will also sprinkle magic dust on the outside of the bag so that it can be lifted by one person and shrink to go down a chimney. Unfortunately, this magic dust is not for sale anywhere yet, but I have heard a rumor that the top secret labs at U-Haul are working on it.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Do you have any tips or tricks that might make Santa&#8217;s job a bit easier? Let us know in the comments and we will pass them on to him with some added milk and cookies!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you ever wonder how Santa&#8217;s bag gets packed for Christmas? Every year Santa has to deliver presents to millions of good little girls and boys around the world. 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