Consider this... (Score 1)

When I moved from Colorado to Florida, my wife and I itemized almost everyting we owned. We numbered every box and recorded (within reason) everything we put in the box. This served several purposes. First, imagine your house or apartment (or moving truck....IT HAPPENS!) burns to the ground, the insurance company (presuming you have it...) Asks you to list all your belongings so they can settle with you. They generally give you a couple of opportunities to revise the list. A statistic that I saw once stated that even after a third revision only half of the belongings get listed. It is a difficult time of tragedy and tough to remember everything. The packing list would serve as itemized proof of belongings. The second benefit came when we were holed up awaiting the construction of our house. Everything was in a storage unit for 8 months. When we needed something we looked it up and searched for that one box. 95% of the boxes were never opened because we didn't have to hunt it down. The third benefit was that we were able to spend an hour mapping where every box would go... Garage, Living Room, Family Room, each of the four bedrooms, three bath's and the kitchen. Made organizing the volunteer moving help a LOT easier!!!