Here is a great idea to keep you organized while moving. At your current home, go through your kitchen making a note on a post-it of every item category you have in the kitchen, for example; Dry Goods, Canned Goods, Coffee Mugs, etc. Then at the new place these post-it notes on the appropriate cabinet, and unpack accordingly. When organizing your new kitchen for functionality it is a lot easier to move post-it notes around at the beginning than it is to move cupboard contents after the move in.
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