I did notice on the storage inventory sheet(s) from this move that the index numbers (of mostly boxes and some individual objects) ran to the high 700s. That's a LOT of boxes.
Ha! I. bet I have a few things still in boxes from a move back in 1972. (Surely the mantra, "But I might need it someday," has expired on those things. Nah; I'll give them a full 50 years. My new mantra: "If you haven't found a need for it in 50 years, throw it out.") In fact, I have some things my dad bought as actual war surplus back in the 1940s; neither of us have found a use for them yet. OTOH, I grew up using some of those things for various projects, so which would be useful and which would not was not obvious at the time of acquisition nor in the decades that followed. My play-pool as a toddler was made from a wing tank from some WWII fighter plane; hard, black, rubber (self-sealing), and a very odd shape.
You can see the rough edge where my dad hacksawed out an opening in the top of the tank.
I remember opening a box from that 1972 move about 20 years later and found it full of floor sweepings. Apparently one person had swept up and used the box to hold the sweepings; then another person came along, hefted the box, found it full, and neatly taped it up (so of course it got moved). I actually recalled some of the objects in the floor sweepings and was able to date the box from the exact move.
I even knew the exact location that had been swept up to fill the box. (Now that is some serious OCD and possibly ARD.)
