Packing, Cleaning & Moving

I'm leaving for China in a week and I've spent the last few weeks slowly preparing lists of things to and not to take, both for myself as well as for the intended research I'll be doing while in China. Until now though, I'd done very little actual packing and cleaning; cleaning because I'll be moving out of my apartment and storing my precious free furniture and 'stuff' for my return in September. 

The packing has finally begun and this time I've managed to actually throw out the stuff I don't use - it's easiest to just store it all and plan to sort it later but I know I won't get around to doing it later either. So, piles and boxes are cluttering my apartment, I find I've already packed stuff I need now, let alone while I'm in China, and I haven't labelled any of the boxes (so much for good organization skills). 

No pics of the chaos, you can all imagine it.