Arrive knowing which box the kettle is in.
Packing is the one time everything you own passes through your hands. Spend the extra ten seconds a box, and unpacking stops being an excavation.
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Every move produces the same two evenings: the one where you cannot find the bedding, and the one three weeks later where you are still living out of boxes because nobody knows which ones matter. Both come from the same gap — the knowledge of what is in a box exists only while the box is open.
A numbered box with a photograph and a short list closes that gap, and it costs almost nothing at the moment you are already holding the tape gun.
What it gives you
Number as you pack
Boxes auto-number in order, so you are never inventing a naming scheme at eleven at night with a marker in your teeth.
One photo per open box
Shoot the box before you tape it. On the other end, you recognise a box from its photo far faster than from anything you wrote on the side.
Pack by room, unpack by priority
Each room is a location, so you can see everything from the kitchen in one list — and mark the handful of boxes that need opening on night one.
The list the movers ask for
Removals companies and their insurers want a box count and a contents summary. Export it as a spreadsheet instead of writing it out on the day.
Proof if something breaks
A dated photo of an intact item, in a numbered box, is the difference between a paid claim and an argument about whether it was already chipped.
Whoever is helping can look
Share a location read-only and the person carrying boxes can check where something goes without ringing you about it.
How to start
A location per room
Kitchen, main bedroom, garage. Pack out of a room and into its list so nothing gets orphaned.
Number, photograph, tape
The box gets its number, one photo of it open, and then the lid. Ten seconds, once.
Flag the night-one boxes
Kettle, bedding, chargers, the tools to rebuild a bed. Mark them so they come off the van last and open first.
Questions people ask
- When is it too late to start?
- The moment the box is taped it is too late for that box, but not for the rest. Starting halfway through a pack still saves you the second half, and a partly-inventoried move beats an entirely uninventoried one.
- Is this quicker than writing on the box?
- Writing "kitchen — misc" on a box takes five seconds and tells you nothing in three weeks. A photo and a number takes about ten and gives you the whole contents. Where it wins outright is searching — no amount of marker pen lets you type "cake tin" and get a box number.
- What does a removals company actually want?
- Usually a box count, a room-by-room breakdown and a declared value, with special mention of anything fragile or high value. All of that comes out of a spreadsheet export; the guide below covers exactly what to hand over.
- Can I keep using it after the move?
- That is where it earns its keep. The boxes that never quite get unpacked — the loft, the garage, the ones in the spare room — stay inventoried instead of becoming mystery boxes you carry to the next house.
Read more about it
Guides that go into the detail this page skips.
Make unpacking the easy half of the move.
Start with a single location and the bins you can see from where you are standing.