If you have special type of items, there are also special packing materials more appropriate for them. If you knew what are available in the market, you would be able to choose the packing materials more appropriately and avoid damaging your things. While some may cost more, using them could be worth especially if you value your things dearly.   For instance, if you want to ensure the highest safety for your glasses you could use glass packer boxes. Such boxes would have inserts so your glasses and stems are more protected. The glasses would not bump each other so they will not easily get broken. You could also even get foam pouches which individually wrap the glasses to provide extra protection to each glass. Even if the glasses bump, they would not get broken because of the foam.   Wine bottle boxes, on the other hand, have Styrofoam inserts. Each of these inserts are shaped into wine bottles so that when you pack the wine bottles in them the bottles would fit snugly into them. There would be not shifting and bumping during transit so you again breakage is avoided.    Quilted pads are great for protecting your furniture from scratches too. So even if shifting happens during transporting, the furniture will not easily get scratched because of the protection that the quilted pads provide.