@phendrick my last move was 24 years ago, and answer is still yes. In attic or garage I think. Bigger worry is Meh and Sidedeal boxes by entryway. and a casemates 1/2 case showed up today. . Luckily protected from rain mostly and shielded from road view.
We moved 7 years ago after about 35 years in our last home. Mostly what is not unpacked are 35 mm slides. If they were unpacked they would go right back in the same boxes for storage.
@andyw I totally forgot I did 35mm slides in 80s. Also somewhere a binder or 2 of 35mm negatives I really want. My earlier 70s stuff was B&W I loved photography and still do but damn crazy phones these days. Not the same though. Joy of using an enlarger in a darkroom is something few can experience anymore. Also in 7th grade photography class in 1970s cut into my thumb using the big industrial paper cutter for photo paper in the darkroom, because it was, um, dark and I was probably, um, stupid.
@andyw@pmarin
Yes, working in a dark room was a joy. Film also made you be much more attentive to details when you were taking pictures (the little things like composition, exposure, framing…) It was expensive to purchase, process and print. I would estimated at least 98% of pictures people take with their phones never get looked at again.
@pmarin I did not enjoy the darkroom (in the 1960s) as much as you did, possibly because I had to set it up in a bathroom shared with my roommate. Then my enlarger and camera were stolen and I replaced the latter only. I’ve been taking photos since I was about 8 and still do (even with cameras!). I did slides initially since it was much less expensive than B&W film and processing. Now it is only digital and I can print at home without turning off the lights and monopolizing a bathroom!
@andyw Well over half of my slides from the '60s and '70 were on Kodachrome, and have faded terribly. The rolls shot on Ektachrome are still vivid. I have fully embraced digital camera usage, but I have not yet begun to try to salvage the faded slides via digital recovery. (Suggestions welcome.)
@werehatrack Mine were almost all Kodachrome and last I looked, there was at least some fading. If they are really important, you could get a scanner if there are a lot (I have thousands) and then do digital correction. If there are not many, you could pay to get them scanned. I suspect that few of mine are important enough to correct after scanning, but I’ll know more when I look at them!
@werehatrack I’ve investigated the scanners a little. For a large number of slides, the only ones that make sense to me are the automated ones like the Pacific Image which is now north of $1700! The ones that do single slides are out of the question for me due to the number I have. I don’t know about the software, but then there are things like Photoshop to help.
14 years since our last move, most of the unpacked items are stuff we meant to keep in storage. But we have a couple boxes of knick-knacks and fragile collectibles that we didn’t unpack because we didn’t have a safe way to display them… and then never got a cabinet for that.
I bet I hold the record at 1995. My wife is hoarding clothes insisting the grandkids will want them. It’s embarrassing but it’s easier to relent than fight. I’m hoping someday she goes on a trip with her friends. I’ll tell her we were burglarized by cross dressers who must have had no interest in any of my stuff.
@tweezak
Hey I bet you could sell some of the clothes on eBay, (or an a vintage shop for sure) especially if they’re nice. I see vintage stuff in stores and online all the time (and people want it). Christmas sweater will definitely get you money. Stuff that can be a vintage Halloween costume. Or just stuff in nice condition that you can’t buy anymore. I’m kinda interested what’s in the box.
@tweezak My friend just told about her 20-something daughter laying claim to a bunch of clothes she’d saved from the 80s, etc. so yes, sometimes the kids DO want them! They’re “vintage” now, so cool.
@Kidsandliz A friend’s sister died a year back; she had to do a last-minute estate sale. Heartbreakingly, almost nothing sold and had to be destroyed. (The auction house did not want to have “dumpster divers” digging through for valuables.)
16 years… But in fairness it’s old pictures and memories. We finally got down to one box left after I broke into the stuffies box around Christmas. What was it about the '80’s and '90’s and stuffed animals and people?
Yes.
24 years ago.
(And the sadder part is we filled a big dumpster with even worse crap when we moved. What we took with us was The Cream of the Crap.)
I get kitchy gifts when I visit my friends out of state (and that’s about two or three times a year).
We do the whole, “oh pick up that, pick that up”, but when I get home, those gifts remain in the bag. Just sadly leaning against the wall… or they would if I didn’t consistently get all that $#%. Over the decades, they started to creep onto the sofa like an army of encroaching garden gnomes and then the bed.
Instead of doing the adult thing and (throwing them away) organizing them, I threw a few towels over the ones on the bed and just slept through it.
Not mine, but yes, my kids have sh*t from 2020 hanging around the house.
I have a Retiring gentleman from work who solved his problem by inviting all of his kids over for a barbecue. He had a dumpster delivered, and when his kids arrived, he told them that they would eat,After the kids went thru all of the stuff in the attic they wanted saved and put it in their cars, or the dumpster.
About 3 boxes went home with the kids.
So, the question had me confused. My (mental) response was : “Nope, all of the unpacked boxes were broken down and taken to recycling. Why would I keep them, since I wasn’t planning to move again soon.” And then I kept reading, where people were talking about boxes with stuff in them. So - packed boxes that were never unpacked after a move? Up until a couple of years ago I still had some of those, but finally unpacked and sent contents off to Goodwill and boxes off to recycling. So why are all y’all + @mediocrebot calling boxes with stuff in 'em “unpacked” boxes?
I have I don’t even know how many boxes like that and I just cleaned the basement. Most are things I haven’t unpacked in 3 moves like childhood memories or nice things I don’t have a china cabinet for. I need to condense the boxes.
That was 5 yrs ago, so probably.
@phendrick my last move was 24 years ago, and answer is still yes. In attic or garage I think. Bigger worry is Meh and Sidedeal boxes by entryway. and a casemates 1/2 case showed up today. . Luckily protected from rain mostly and shielded from road view.
@phendrick @pmarin
Are the person that has unopened irks?
We moved 7 years ago after about 35 years in our last home. Mostly what is not unpacked are 35 mm slides. If they were unpacked they would go right back in the same boxes for storage.
@andyw I totally forgot I did 35mm slides in 80s. Also somewhere a binder or 2 of 35mm negatives I really want. My earlier 70s stuff was B&W I loved photography and still do but damn crazy phones these days. Not the same though. Joy of using an enlarger in a darkroom is something few can experience anymore. Also in 7th grade photography class in 1970s cut into my thumb using the big industrial paper cutter for photo paper in the darkroom, because it was, um, dark and I was probably, um, stupid.
@andyw @pmarin
Yes, working in a dark room was a joy. Film also made you be much more attentive to details when you were taking pictures (the little things like composition, exposure, framing…) It was expensive to purchase, process and print. I would estimated at least 98% of pictures people take with their phones never get looked at again.
@pmarin I did not enjoy the darkroom (in the 1960s) as much as you did, possibly because I had to set it up in a bathroom shared with my roommate. Then my enlarger and camera were stolen and I replaced the latter only. I’ve been taking photos since I was about 8 and still do (even with cameras!). I did slides initially since it was much less expensive than B&W film and processing. Now it is only digital and I can print at home without turning off the lights and monopolizing a bathroom!
@andyw Well over half of my slides from the '60s and '70 were on Kodachrome, and have faded terribly. The rolls shot on Ektachrome are still vivid. I have fully embraced digital camera usage, but I have not yet begun to try to salvage the faded slides via digital recovery. (Suggestions welcome.)
@werehatrack Mine were almost all Kodachrome and last I looked, there was at least some fading. If they are really important, you could get a scanner if there are a lot (I have thousands) and then do digital correction. If there are not many, you could pay to get them scanned. I suspect that few of mine are important enough to correct after scanning, but I’ll know more when I look at them!
@andyw I have a scanner. I just haven’t looked into the capabilities of the software yet.
@werehatrack I’ve investigated the scanners a little. For a large number of slides, the only ones that make sense to me are the automated ones like the Pacific Image which is now north of $1700! The ones that do single slides are out of the question for me due to the number I have. I don’t know about the software, but then there are things like Photoshop to help.
@andyw @werehatrack Just scrolling past and one word popped out triggering this in my head.
@werehatrack @yakkoTDI I still have the LP I bought when it came out!
Plenty left unpacked. And my move was 12 years ago!
Maybe I’ll get around to unpack them eventually.
@IndifferentDude yep just in time for the Next Ice Age, correct?
I don’t use boxes to move, so nothing to unpack. Now if I can just find the glue to put this wedding china back together again.
@hchavers hehehehe
I still have boxes that I haven’t opened since three moves ago in 1999.
14 years since our last move, most of the unpacked items are stuff we meant to keep in storage. But we have a couple boxes of knick-knacks and fragile collectibles that we didn’t unpack because we didn’t have a safe way to display them… and then never got a cabinet for that.
I bet I hold the record at 1995. My wife is hoarding clothes insisting the grandkids will want them. It’s embarrassing but it’s easier to relent than fight. I’m hoping someday she goes on a trip with her friends. I’ll tell her we were burglarized by cross dressers who must have had no interest in any of my stuff.
@tweezak My last move was in 1996. We just went through the last box less than 2 years ago
@tweezak Nope. See below.
@tweezak
Hey I bet you could sell some of the clothes on eBay, (or an a vintage shop for sure) especially if they’re nice. I see vintage stuff in stores and online all the time (and people want it). Christmas sweater will definitely get you money. Stuff that can be a vintage Halloween costume. Or just stuff in nice condition that you can’t buy anymore. I’m kinda interested what’s in the box.
@tweezak My friend just told about her 20-something daughter laying claim to a bunch of clothes she’d saved from the 80s, etc. so yes, sometimes the kids DO want them! They’re “vintage” now, so cool.
What move?
@werehatrack Better than 1984, I suppose.
Though that’s just because of the book, not the actual year.
@werehatrack
How many boxes?
@Star2236 On the advice of counsel, I shall decline to respond.
Yep. About 4 years. I also have a few unpacked boxes from the move before this.
2016…
yup from 1700sf to 525sf with 3 weeks warning. Slowly divesting myself of stuff but with no place for a garage sale it is harder to do so quickly.
@Kidsandliz A friend’s sister died a year back; she had to do a last-minute estate sale. Heartbreakingly, almost nothing sold and had to be destroyed. (The auction house did not want to have “dumpster divers” digging through for valuables.)
Embarrassingly too many. And we’re 7yrs in. Potentially looking to move again soon…
@kshayabusa Running away from your stuff?
11 years and I’m pretty sure I don’t need what might be in those boxes. But just in case …
@Ziggie
That’s always it, just in case.
Almost 8 years… must not really need it.
1993
12 years in, nothing left to unpack. Went from 3800sf to 1800sf, so no room for any extra boxes.
Yes, but it has only been a year and a half.
16 years… But in fairness it’s old pictures and memories. We finally got down to one box left after I broke into the stuffies box around Christmas. What was it about the '80’s and '90’s and stuffed animals and people?
And not even anything good like Teddy Ruckspin or Cabbage Patch…
Yes.
24 years ago.
(And the sadder part is we filled a big dumpster with even worse crap when we moved. What we took with us was The Cream of the Crap.)
@macromeh I’ll see your 24 and raise you 19…
2009
I get kitchy gifts when I visit my friends out of state (and that’s about two or three times a year).
We do the whole, “oh pick up that, pick that up”, but when I get home, those gifts remain in the bag. Just sadly leaning against the wall… or they would if I didn’t consistently get all that $#%. Over the decades, they started to creep onto the sofa like an army of encroaching garden gnomes and then the bed.
Instead of doing the adult thing and
(throwing them away)organizing them, I threw a few towels over the ones on the bed and just slept through it.Two months, but there’s one box that’s still with me from my last move three years ago. Bane of my existence.
30 years, nothing left to unpack. But so much Meh crap.
1999
Not mine, but yes, my kids have sh*t from 2020 hanging around the house.
I have a Retiring gentleman from work who solved his problem by inviting all of his kids over for a barbecue. He had a dumpster delivered, and when his kids arrived, he told them that they would eat,After the kids went thru all of the stuff in the attic they wanted saved and put it in their cars, or the dumpster.
About 3 boxes went home with the kids.
So, the question had me confused. My (mental) response was : “Nope, all of the unpacked boxes were broken down and taken to recycling. Why would I keep them, since I wasn’t planning to move again soon.” And then I kept reading, where people were talking about boxes with stuff in them. So - packed boxes that were never unpacked after a move? Up until a couple of years ago I still had some of those, but finally unpacked and sent contents off to Goodwill and boxes off to recycling. So why are all y’all + @mediocrebot calling boxes with stuff in 'em “unpacked” boxes?
@rockblossom Because inputs to meatware systems often produce nondeterminate results.
@werehatrack My interpretation: “Continuous immersion in the meh.com ecosphere has caused a short in your logic circuits. Need upgrade.”
My mom did that a while ago, I was the one that left with a zip lock bag bc I had already taken all my stuff years ago.
I have I don’t even know how many boxes like that and I just cleaned the basement. Most are things I haven’t unpacked in 3 moves like childhood memories or nice things I don’t have a china cabinet for. I need to condense the boxes.
Almost all of them, but it’s only been 2 years.