Stage 1: The Seldom-Used Stuff

Whether you’re packing up over a period of hours or weeks, this category includes everything that you won’t need any time soon-and probably haven’t used in months. In fact, some of it may still be in boxes from your last move! This includes off-season clothing, seasonal decorations, old photo albums, financial records from the past decade, that fondue set that’s been sitting there since your wedding. You get the picture. Anything that you haven’t touched in at least two months-and that you won’t need within the next couple of weeks-makes it into this category.