You don’t know what you got until you try to put it in a box

As I prepare for the move into the new place I’ve started boxing things up.  Before I started packing I looked around my small studio apartment and thought, “this will take a few hours and a couple boxes”.  Then one box was full and it didn’t look any different.  Then 5 boxes and still there was stuff to be packed. The more I put in boxes the more I found.  This is also after multiple closet clean outs in the last few months and the occupying trips to Goodwill.  Books alone have filled multiple boxes (heavy boxes).  You look at a book shelve and think, “that will all fit in a box”, wrong.  You really don’t know what you got until you try to put it in a box.