Has Chaz been in Houston since May of 2009?

[Bunny M]

I don't think caffeine is the issue.  These people have serious coffee habits.  "Chemical dependency" is probably a better descriptor of their relationship with caffeine, rather than "avoidance."

*prods lifeless corpse* I believe you have killed my joke. May I see your license?

eh, I'm moving house this week.  my sarcasm detector is in a box somewhere.

Marked "Kitchen", no doubt, and containing no items you would normally find in a kitchen.

Certainly sounds like the vast majority of my moves. 

Really? Mine are generally filled with boxes marked "Books." Even the ones for the kitchen, since I recycle moving boxes.

Pfft. I don't bother marking the boxes of books. If a box has not-books in it then it needs to be marked as such, although really, trying to move the box is generally hint enough. 

[Cole]

That's the way moving is for me too. My books-to-everything-else ratio is crazy enough that I only need to label the non-book boxes.

[rekre8]

The majority of my moving boxes were copy-paper boxes with labels like "Asimov-Bujold" and "McCaffery-Niven" on them. 

[eschatonic]

I've moved so many times in the last few years that it's pointless to label the boxes now.  They all say something like "books kitchen books clothes books knitting books" I'll just open them when I get there.

[jennygadget]

That's the way moving is for me too. My books-to-everything-else ratio is crazy enough that I only need to label the non-book boxes.

I don't label the book boxes "books" so much as "scifi/fantasy,"  "ya lit,"  "ya scifi/fantasy," "picture books," "middle grades," "history/politics/sociology," "travel," "art/architecture," and the like.  It makes setting up my shelves so much easier.

And then there are books that are still in boxes because I don't have enough bookshelves.

Which lead to numbering boxes - rather than descriptive labeling - and then keeping track of the location of specific titles via excel spreadsheet.

[Jezabella49]

And then there are books that are still in boxes because I don't have enough bookshelves.

Which lead to numbering boxes - rather than descriptive labeling - and then keeping track of the location of specific titles via excel spreadsheet.

THIS!!!

This is what I'm dealing with,

*sigh* except I don't have the book titles in a spreadsheet.

[jennygadget]

And then there are books that are still in boxes because I don't have enough bookshelves.

Which lead to numbering boxes - rather than descriptive labeling - and then keeping track of the location of specific titles via excel spreadsheet.

THIS!!!

This is what I'm dealing with,

*sigh* except I don't have the book titles in a spreadsheet.

That is what led to the spreadsheet.  Having been in that situation, I mean.

[eschatonic]

And then there are books that are still in boxes because I don't have enough bookshelves.

Which lead to numbering boxes - rather than descriptive labeling - and then keeping track of the location of specific titles via excel spreadsheet.

THIS!!!

This is what I'm dealing with,

*sigh* except I don't have the book titles in a spreadsheet.

That is what led to the spreadsheet.  Having been in that situation, I mean.

it makes moving fun, see, because every box is a surprise. 

as in, surprise! that book is not in this box, this box only contains cookbooks and strange plastic things that you didn't throw away because you didn't know what they were. 

or, surprise! this box contains no books at all! this is actually the box you though you gave to Goodwill; now you can spend some time wondering what was in the box you did give to goodwill.

.... that spreadsheet is sounding better and better.

[Bunny M]

And then there are books that are still in boxes because I don't have enough bookshelves.

Which lead to numbering boxes - rather than descriptive labeling - and then keeping track of the location of specific titles via excel spreadsheet.

THIS!!!

This is what I'm dealing with,

*sigh* except I don't have the book titles in a spreadsheet.

That is what led to the spreadsheet.  Having been in that situation, I mean.

it makes moving fun, see, because every box is a surprise. 

as in, surprise! that book is not in this box, this box only contains cookbooks and strange plastic things that you didn't throw away because you didn't know what they were. 

or, surprise! this box contains no books at all! this is actually the box you though you gave to Goodwill; now you can spend some time wondering what was in the box you did give to goodwill.

.... that spreadsheet is sounding better and better.

Ahh, Schrödinger's Book, which is both in and not in the box simultaneously, until you finish emptying the box in question.