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A storage unit is a monthly bill attached to a pile of decisions you have not made yet. Here is how to empty one deliberately.

Books are heavy and mostly worthless. A twenty-minute pass per shelf finds the few that are not.

Sturdy boxes are the first thing you run out of and the last thing you think to buy. Small boxes get heavy fast; big boxes get impossible fast.

Paper that has to be kept needs to be dry, dark and findable. A cardboard box in a damp basement is none of those.

A box with no label is a box you open twice. Label the side, not the lid, so you can read it when the boxes are stacked.