10 ways not to pack

1. Start unpeeling the newsheets very slowly as you read ‘ooh, wow imagine that! he used to be a rockstar and now is into particle physics…’ ‘hey, I didn’t know that cauliflower was good for your heart’ ‘oh, look at those little pandas, so cute and panda-y..’
2. Decide that moving house is the perfect time to do all the filing and sorting of paperwork that you haven’t done for the last year or to sort out your photo storage system and catalogue those holiday photos that are still floating in boxes
3. Decide that before packing your books you might just read a couple quickly – you know those ones that people have leant you, or maybe just the ones you were SURE you were going to have finished by now – like maybe the move will be easier if you’ve read some last minute tome on philosophy that helps make you wiser and wittier and more, you know, knowledgeable and generally philosophical about moving.
4. Blog about moving approximately every five minutes.
5. Put all your cardboard boxes in the loungeroom, drink wine, healf heartedly pop a few things in one box, leave all the cupboard doors open, scare the cat with the rustling of newspapers as you read about pandas, make a cup of tea, move things around a bit, go to bed with loungeroom looking like modern art piece on the theme of moving
6. Try on every dress and lipstick before packing them – just to make sure you truly still love them and want them in your life
7. Decide to spend long hours cooking exotic dishes to use up those little jars of nuts and spices, because it JUST WOULDN’T MAKE SENSE to move them – despite the fact that they collectively probably weigh 50g and take up about as much room as a shoebox
8. Go out for dinner and lot and talk authoritatively on the intricacies of moving
9. Daydream about all the yoga classes, packed lunches for work and cards to your grandma you plan to do when in the new house rather than devising the world’s best labeling classification system for homewares (I look forward to much ‘shoes and plastic rabbit and clip on earrings’, ‘teapot, cook books, placemats, spices and fabric paints’, ‘electrical doodads, fan and cat brushes’)
10. Dance around the loungeroom and pretend you are a sneering rockstar to Pop Will Eat Itself