Think of where you now live, is there a box that never got unpacked?

my elementary school homework… I told the teacher that I would do it later… I’m 33 years old now… and the weird part is now that I have time off… I’m actually doing some of it… I even have some university belongings that I have in totes.

I have a box with all my notes from University. I’ve moved them from house to house without ever opening it. Really I should bite the bullet and get shot of them, but I spent four years of my life writing the damn things.

Not that I have moved in 30+ years, but there are boxes of china, crystal, etc. that are packed away in the basement. And when I minimalized the decorations in the house several years ago, I packed up all the things I had out because people gave them to me, and not because I actually liked the item. I have enough items to decorate 3 christmas trees, camping gear when I never go camping, and leftover school/craft supplies.

There are some boxes in the loft containing some comics, some of them by now well over 30 years old. They’re not in good enough condition to sell, and after 25 years in the loft they’re probably not even good enough to read any more. I guess I should really put them in the recycling.

We have a crawl space type attic with lots of fiberglass insulation. It is large but very difficult to access.
I still have the boxes from when my father moved from our childhood home to the retirement community in Florida. When he was packing up he’d say, “Put it in your attic so I know where it is.” Years later he’d say, “Throw it out but don’t tell me.” The boxes are still up there. He moved in 1981 and died more than 10 years ago.
There they sit.

A lot. I have been packing to move for the last 3 weeks and the amount of stuff we never touched in the 8 years we lived here is staggering. What is worse is the boxes that made the 2 moves prior that havene’t been openee!! Sheesh!

Oh, so many.

@Cruiser, are you going to move it again, or get rid of it?

We have many unopened boxes.
When my mother-in-law died we packed her personal things, and put them in our loft.
Just not had the time or right emotions to look through them yet.

We just moved 16 years worth of items into our new home 5 months ago. We probably have 20 boxes that still need unpacking. I told myself that winter time would be the best time for me to get this done. What do I do instead? Fluther. :P

@BarnacleBill I have given a lot away and have a huge pile by the curb for Freecycle members to come a grab.

I have a Rubbermaid bin of towels. There’s no room in my linen closet or anywhere else for them. I have too many towels.

@downtide – I’d suggest you take the comics to a local shop. You might get a couple of bucks for them (or pounds, or quid, or whatever ;) ). People collect strange things!

No….my current philosophy is, if I don’t need it, get rid of it. Therefore any unpacked boxes are unpacked for a reason and would have gone by the wayside months ago :)

@Seelix if the comics were in better condition I would do that, but they are mostly very shabby.

@Seelix: The local Humane Society or animal shelters love towels. They are always begging for old linens…to line carriers, cages, etc.

@gailcalled – Before I moved, I got rid of a lot of old linens and donated them to the SPCA. Whenever I get around to going through what I still have, that’s what I’ll do with ‘em :)

I have a box with letters to and from my best friend in 10th grade.We were friends for about a year, then he wanted to make it a romantic thing. I really loved him, but not that way, and he got really angry and wouldn’t talk to me anymore. I never really got over it, and that is way I have one box that always moves with me without ever getting unpacked.

@ChloeReed That is such a lovely answer.
welcome to fluther

We moved in to our apartment in October. There is a corner with several boxes that have yet to be unpacked, because we lack shelf space.

We have several boxes in our garage that haven’t been unpacked. They’ve been in boxes for about 2 years now and will remain in boxes until we are in an area where we need them. Some of the are unneeded because of the area we live in (different climate from where we were) and some are unneeded because we don’t have space for them in the house we live in at this time. Since we know we will move again and eventually live in a climate where we need those things and in a house big enough to use the other things, we will continue to keep them and move them with us as we move from place to place.

I have so many things in boxes or on shelves! My children move in and out, my mother passed away and I brought many things here, and I “store” things. I need to give things away!

We have a few (scattered around the country, no less), though they are almost exclusively memorabilia and Important Documents. My diploma’s in there, as is Mom’s wedding dress, Dad’s coin collection, probably some copies of naturalization papers, and all of the photos that we’ve taken over the years, but don’t necessarily display. And all of the medical/therapeutic hardware that we’ve accumulated but is of no practical use when you’re not recovering from joint surgery.
On top of that, I have a less-than-wholly-irrational fear of one day needing to know something that I’ve learned and subsequently forgotten, and so have taken to storing my notebooks.

A box? There is a wall of boxes in our garage that are still a mystery even after a month in our new place. I’m going to take a tip from the “Hoarders” show and bring inside one box at a time so I can go through it under a/c and find a place for whatever’s in each. In a way, I think having lived without the mystery stuff for over a month means I don’t need any of it.