The giants are great for lampshades, or-- flattened-- they make great mirror boxes. And those smaller boxes are great to hold small items safely, inside larger boxes of similar items-- for example, A BOX FOR jewelry and accessories: Necklaces carefully folded, each, into paper to prevent tangles, together inside a small Amazon-size box; loose pins in another small box; the rack they are all on and will be on in Ohio; of that in one larger box labeled HOUSE: JEWELRY/ACC.

For books and files, I have a great local source for small-enough-to-carry but all uniformly sized. Since a lot of the eventually-moved stuff will be heavy and in those, I'll be able to label them like I did when we moved here, for easy finding of garaged stuff.

I already went thru some of the oldest of the older archived boxes I wrote about when these threads were young, but the remainder is destined for a garage spot; their labeling is already accurate. On top of those will be younger archived material-- to continue handling like the older archives.

Now, happily, I have a great fone app to list contents of each box when we get to that point-- the last move-- which I can email myself for a running inventory keyed to box-label number. With this system, the movers will know which boxes go into the house (and which room), and which ones go into the garage (and which wall). I moved us here that way, combining two large households and two large offices, into a house and a church. Only one box ever went missing, and this was due to a teenager who lied about a box in her room we never opened til she moved out-- missing deep dish pizza pan, voila!

When we leave here, a lot will be yard-saled and/or donated to the annual church yard sale... a lot of which is already designated. In Ohio, when the better stuff arrives there will be a yard sale there.

I love it that my S$S will pay me to "retire" Hardi, and move us. This is the sh*t I'm GOOD at!

~S~