[lkbm]

I moved a couple weeks ago, and was quite confused when--after repeatedly searching through every kitchen box--we were missing the flour, sugar, and pasta.

Turns out one kitchen box got placed at the bottom of in a pile of book boxes in the living room.

If you unpack in a day, it's no big deal, but if you spent a week unpacking, you may find yourself having to eat something other than spaghetti for lunch, which is normally fine, but not when you really want spaghetti and the lack of spaghetti merely makes you more determined to find it.

[layer8]

I put a colored sticker on each box, where the color corresponds to the room where the box should go. The destination rooms are marked with the same stickers during the move, so helpers have an easy time telling where to put each box.

In addition, I’m numbering the boxes, and when packing them keep a list mapping the numbers to what’s in each box. So when later searching for something, I know it should be in box number x. This can be helpful even years later when you don’t unpack all boxes.

[styfle]

> This can be helpful even years later when you don’t unpack all boxes.

Indeed, this is one of the biggest reasons I tracked this information to begin with.

[lostlogin]

> If you unpack in a day, it's no big deal

I think you’re supposed to unpack 80% on day one, and keep the rest boxed up for the next move?

[irrational]

Do your local grocery stores not sell spaghetti?

[lkbm]

I ended up buying spaghetti when I went to the store a couple days later, and now I have an abundance of spaghetti. But lunch that first day ended up being something else.

[bonki]

The good thing is, you can't have too much pasta.

[linsomniac]

>but if you spent a week unpacking

Look at you! I still have boxes packed from my move a decade ago. :-)

[aembleton]

Time to bin them

[overfeed]

"I wonder what ever happened to $VERY_IMPORTANT_DOCUMENT? It just disappeared"