There is packing, and then there is talking about packing. There is the intention to pack, the preparation for packing, the thinking about packing, and eventually — sometimes — the actual packing. The journey from ‘I should start packing’ to boxes taped and labeled is longer and stranger than it should be, and it is traveled by every person who has ever moved.
1. Day 1: The Planning Phase
You purchase a three-ring binder. You research the most efficient packing order on multiple websites, creating a nuanced understanding of the theoretical ideal packing sequence. You write a packing list. You write a second packing list that’s better organized than the first. You feel you have accomplished something meaningful. No boxes have been packed.
2. Day 3: The Supplies Acquisition Phase
You go to the Home Depot and purchase an optimistic quantity of boxes, tape, and packing paper. You stack them in the living room where they will live for the next seven days as a physical monument to your intention to pack. Guests will ask if you’re moving. You will say yes, you’re working on it.
3. Day 5: The Categorization Phase
You sort through your books, deciding which ones you’ll pack first. You find three books you’d forgotten you owned and read fourteen pages of each. No books are packed, but your reading list has been updated.
4. Day 7: The Rationalization Phase
You can’t start packing the kitchen yet because you still need it for meals. You can’t pack the bedroom yet because you need it for sleeping. The living room items are ‘too big’ to pack first. There appears to be no logical starting point for packing. This is fine.
5. Day 9: The Actual Packing
It is 11 PM. It is two days before the move. You have discovered, finally, the only true motivator for packing: the acute, clarifying panic of imminent deadline. You pack everything in four hours. You label nothing. You eat cereal from the mixing bowl. Cheep Cheep Movers arrives at 8 AM.
6. The Lesson
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