Our Life In Boxes... Again

It is interesting that we will have moved 3 times in less than 2 years and I had only moved one time in the previous 13 years before our move to Germany.
You would think that I had gotten better at this.  You would think that by now I could do this in my sleep.  Well, no.  When we were leaving Seattle we packed very little, I purged A LOT, and I was able to leave all of my furniture, my linens, my entire kitchen so that our renters could use our stuff.  And when we moved out of our first house in Berlin it was fully furnished, so everything but our small amount of personal stuff stayed in the house and we could use it right up until the last day.   All of that is really important when you think about the question of WHEN do you pack up your kitchen and things that you use on the daily when you

still need to use them on the daily?!?  It has been hard. 
I started in early May with all of our winter clothes.  Then I started "skimming the top" A box or a cupboard or a closet every day... OK, maybe not every day but often and just slowly dwindling our stuff down to the basics.  I have NO idea how we accumulated SOO much stuff when we flew here less than 2 years ago with a suitcase and a carry on each!!!  It is times like this where I want to live with less.  MUCH much less.
It is now SO messy, so disorganized, so overwhelming.  But on I go.  Box by box.
When we return from Seattle we will be moving into a new (to us) house that has a

yard and a proper guest room and we are building out the attic floor (which hasn't been touched since 1930's - it is a bit like a museum up there) and turning into a rental or an Airbnb.  Lots of work and lots of stress and hopefully it will all be worth it in the end.  But for now...chaos.