my husband has packed and moved our last two moves. all i do is clean.

but 2 friends helped me pack my deceased husband's stuff, over weeks, and I finally paid mover to pack kitchen stuff I couldn't face.

I don't obsess over stuff tho, so that helps me.

When I moved from the home of my deceased father, everything was organized and it was very easy for me to determine what I needed to unpack without wasting much time afterwards.

When I left my apartment in Irving, it was one of those situations that you described, most things were packed in a disorderly fashion and I'm constantly having to search for smaller items. I've eliminated about 70% of my possessions since October of last year so that the largest items that I have are two footlockers, the boxes for my computer and printer, one bookshelf and a bicycle. I'll have about 18 plastic bins and the two footlockers wherever I get settled next. I could probably stack my possessions in about a 40 square foot room and the heaviest items are a few plastic bins with books and my grandmother's set of china. Nothing weighs more than about 50 pounds.

Along the way, I eventually dumped a washer/dryer set since I didn't have WD connections, a sleeper sofa, the old dining room table, and the queen size box spring/mattress since they were over 20 years old. I donated about 4 plastic bins of clothing to the Red Cross and have another bin to donate.

and visit brother every week...try
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take a box , bring a box
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if pressed for time now, just pack everything, and every week take a box from storage at your brother's, take it home, catalog it..make as detailed list as you want
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next week when you go to brother's house...switch the catalogued box with a new one

Blue sticker = bathroom, etc. Then number in order of importance!

I am by nature an organizer, but not obsessively so.