Our move consisted of two days, a first day for packing up all the stuff in cardboard boxes and a second day for loading them onto a container.  Originally, it was scheduled for January 25 and 26.  But on Friday January 22, I asked the movers to come a day later since we were so behind in organizing our stuff.  Thank god they accommodated us.  On the 26th, a professional crew of four worked pretty solidly for a whole day, wrapping almost everything in brown paper and placing them in boxes or building custom-shaped boxes.

I cannot imagine the mess of paper and boxes that we will create when they are unwrapped or unpacked.