My System for Moving

I’ve moved around a lot in these last eight or so years. Cincinnati to Dallas to Austin to Dallas to Cincinnati to Dallas to Chicago to Tampa to Dallas to Boulder back to Chicago back to Dallas. I have three main categories of things:

• Stuff that I use everyday and is important to my day-to-day work and relaxation.
• Stuff that I use weekly and is too expensive to replace.
• Stuff that I occasionally use but don’t want to replace.

For items in the first category, they are items that fit into my media bag, my laptop bag, or my electronics duffle. These are things that I usually take everywhere with me.

For items in the second category, they are placed in 27 gallon storage tubs and transported with me. Each tub has a QR code that is numbered and goes to a google drive document that contains what’s in each storage container.

For items in the last category, they go in storage (usually placed in 27 gallon storage tubs or their original box).

Is this ideal? No…but I know, at a glance, where everything is. It works for me, and that’s what’s important. No weird web applications, no logins other than your google drive, and it’s super easy to make QR codes with URL’s in them so that you can quickly open them from a phone. I usually print six labels – two for the lid and one for each side – and then cover those labels with a piece of clear heavy 3M shipping tape to minimize the risk of the label falling off.