This is fantastic! I love it but hopefully I'll not need it anytime in the near future!

It's nice, but it's pretty simple to do this yourself--i.e. make custom labels with your computer. They have colored labels at the office supply store. (Surprise, surprise.)

My mom did this with different colors of colored masking tape. Stick a strip of tape on (color coded by room), write the name of the room on the tape.

When she helped her mom move to the different condo, she even posted signs near each room with the matching color so the movers knew where everything went (the condo was small enough that they could see all the signs from the door). They loved it.

I did the same thing with sharpies - wrote every room in a different color and circled it (plus a circled Fragile in red if it was breakable). Worked well for me.

The ultra helpful thing my mom did was put the tape on both the top and the end of the box - makes it much easier to identify the boxes when they're piled up.

a bit wasteful, you might fill up two boxes for the Bathroom, then what do you do with the rest of the tape. Print up thinks on the computer, as said above, or just write with a sharpie.
WC- Bathroom
MBR- Master Bedroom
1BR- 1 Bedroom
2BR- 2nd Bedroom
KC- Kitchen
If we can organize 50 states with two letter codes, we can do the same with moving boxes

I love it! I just moved, it totally sucks. I think it's easy to forget how awful it really is, unless you've done it recently. This tape would have been Great! I still can't find my good bra. Or the coffeemaker.

Save yourself the expense - I used colored post-it notes that I already had and each room was assigned a different color. I also wrote down the contents of each box on the post-it notes so that I could find something that I needed right away as I didn't have time to unpack all at once. Tape them down with your packing tape so they don't fall off!

I'm totally with you on the moving thing. I hate it. HATE it.

Fun gadgets like these would make it cooler, though. Sorta like how the coolest part of going back to school was always picking up fresh pens, notebooks, paper, etc.

I'd buy it. I never planned on being a nomad, but I am one now---10 residences in 14 years. Previously, I used blue painter's tape for marking everything---even furniture locations on the floor or wall so the movers will know where to put big things.

My most important tip is to pack the shower curtain/towel and coffee pot w/supplies in one tote bag, and keep it with your purse. Include your favorite bra, too :)

Sharpie for the win.

Having moved more times than I care to remember, I can say that you might start out really organized with box labels, but the minute that you start having helpers and trucks, it all falls apart. Every time. If the only tape in the relevant room was this stuff, you might have a chance. It's not much more expensive than plain and it could really help a lot, especially if you had to store anything long enough to kind of forget where that box you just knew you'd remember needs to go...

I have moved countless times and did, in fact, buy this tape a few years ago. Very handy for identifying boxes, but really poor quality - can't use it to actually secure them!

When I moved, I also just used different colored post-it's taped to the boxes, but I have to admit, the OCD part of me loves this tape.

The cheap and practical part of me, however, will stick to the post-its.

Regardless of which method used, color-coding the boxes is/was a huge help in the moving & unpacking process. Unless you have friends like mine, who missed the color-coded goodness and just piled all boxes in the living room. :)

I totally fail to see how being organized and using labeling is on par with a serious mental condition. I think it's pretty sad the flippant way that people use that term when it's a serious condition.

I love America. You can spend your money on just about anything.

When I move, I always mark the boxes by room, and usually contents, with a magic marker.

But the most important box I mark 'Last closed, first open.' This has the land line phone, coffee pot, address book, glasses and cups and stuff to make coffee, and a box opener. Oh, and a set of sheets. Everything I am going to need in the first 48 hours after the move should be in that box.

My movers ALWAYS leave that box on top.

silly.
a sharpie and/or not post-its will do the trick.
this is conspicuous consumption.

I think this is a pretty good idea, but then you can only use this tape for moving.

When we moved, I used colored masking tape and put a piece on each door of the corresponding room (along with a house layout drawing with colors on it).

Yes, you could WRITE words on each box...but the tape is soooo much easier to apply and read. Movers are usually quick and they love the simplicity of colors. And, not all of our movers have spoken English as their first language, so colors are much more straightforward.

@d4kk1tt3n: True. A greater effort should be made to differentiate between those with a true psychological condition and those who suffer from, say, mere unclinical uptightness.

Also, am I the only one reading the panicky comments about what to do with the leftover tape and thinking, um, use it to tape other stuff?

I've used this before, but I don't know that it makes things more organized.

I've found it better to put the furniture and appliances in their right places, but stack the boxes in the garage. I mark them by priority when packing (clothes and dishes= high, tzotchkes=low), and bring them inside a few at a time. That keeps the mess way down, because you look 'moved in' as soon as the furniture is in. Much less stressful that way.

My mom is an elementary school librarian. When they built a new school, she printed labels on colored paper for each section (fiction, non-fiction, biography, etc.), then taped the sheets to the boxes. Each page had a space to then write more detailed notes on what was inside (i.e. Easy Fiction Aa-Ad). She was able to get the movers to put the boxes in the right area of the new library and then she was able to line up the boxes and unpack them in the correct order.

My mom used to let us buy a new lunchbox each new school year in a sweet attempt to get us excited about heading back to school.

This sort of falls into that category for me... if this helps make the act of moving any more fun to you, go for it! I don't find it outrageously wasteful, excessive, or expensive, in the grand scheme of things.

Instead of spending all that time writing on boxes, I make a spreadsheet and just number the boxes. It's much faster to scribble a number on several sides. Copies of the spreadsheet means everyone knows where everything goes, and each box isn't a total mystery. I know it sounds a little crazy, but it really doesn't take more time.

At Tellus Self Storage, we love the pre-labeled tape. It makes searching through your storage unit so much easier! Great article.