Have you learned anything from the move?

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If you’ve learned anything during this move that will help with the next move, please add it to our wiki page.

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I would open up this topic to any non-members that help(ed).

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If you are unpacking be prepared to be told you are doing it wrong. This is a common thing I encountered as I helped unpack after the move.

  • Most of the stuff comes in on pallets with stuff about 3-4ft high.

  • Most of the space is occupied by pallets.

  • Rest of the stuff is put into a big pile in whatever space is left available.

  • Most of it is somewhat categorized, but completely disorganized.

  • The pallet with all the lazer cutter stuff is going to be in the kitchen area.

  • The pallet with all the kitchen stuff will be in the soldering area.

Since all of the stuff is in the wrong areas, and you don’t have enough work space to actually begin organizing stuff you have to make room. The only way to accomplish this is by setting up shelves. You’ll have lots of people telling you that the shelves are in the wrong place when you do this.

They will point out that they are suppose to go over in “that area”.

You’ll have to point out “that area” is full of stuff.

They will point out “this area” is suppose to be for “this type of stuff”.

You’ll have to point out you can’t find “this type of stuff” because everything is still on pallets, and its why you must use “this area” for organizing.

Brace yourself for this frustration, and don’t expect any thanks for it (you won’t get it). But somebody’s gotta do it, right? So once you’ve set up a shelf, unloaded a pallet and tossed the pallet outside you’ll have some more space to work. Keep doing this until you’ve got enough space and can actually start organizing stuff. (You’ll still get lots unappreciative comments unfortunately.)

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put stuff in a box, label the box on the side. that way when it’s stacked on a pallet the box contents can be read from the outside. Makes finding that thing we didn’t know we’d need a lot easier.

We have too much stuff?