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The Simple Way to Track Your Boxes When Moving House
When your life is in transit, visibility is everything.
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Three weeks after the move, you’re still living around boxes.
Some rooms work. Others are stacked shoulder-high. You were sure you’d be unpacked by now.
Instead, you’re opening box after box trying to remember where you put things. The cables you need tonight, the folder you packed “somewhere safe,” the kitchen bits that didn’t make it into the first wave.
You know you packed carefully. You labelled most of it. You told yourself you’d remember.
But now everything is blending together.
Garage or hallway?
Storage unit or spare room?
You’re re-playing packing day in your head, trying to re-construct decisions you made under pressure.
And sometimes, instead of searching again, you just buy another one. Because it’s faster than digging.
Everything is somewhere. You just can’t see it.
The problem isn’t the boxes.
It’s that you can’t search them.
Storalla turns your boxes into a searchable inventory.
Before or during packing, you create Places. Your new house. Your storage unit. Your garage.
Inside each Place, you add containers and boxes with their contents. A photo. A name. That’s it.
It doesn’t have to be perfect. Just accurate enough to find later.
Then, when you need something, you search it.
The app tells you exactly which box it’s in. Which room. Which location.
No digging. No guessing. No replaying packing day in your head.
Each box can also generate its own QR code. Print it. Stick it on the outside.
Scan it and see everything inside. Without opening it.
Every box has context. Every item has a location.
Even when your life is in transit, you can see what you own.
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When we moved house recently, we had just over 30 boxes, all packed over a couple of long, tired days.
We logged each one in Storalla as we packed. Glassware 1, Glassware 2, Glassware 3. Food Cupboard 1, Food Cupboard 2. And so on.
The weekend we moved in, our new neighbours came round before we’d unpacked properly. Instead of opening box after box to find wine glasses, I searched “red wine glasses” in the app. It told me exactly which box they were in. Two minutes later, they were on the table.
When we started unpacking the kitchen, we scanned the QR code on each Food Cupboard box to see what was inside before deciding where things should go. No emptying. No guessing. Just a scan, a look, a decision.
At one point we nearly bought a new measuring tape because we couldn’t find it anywhere. A quick search showed it was already in one of the hallway boxes.
The boxes sat around for a few weeks while we waited for wardrobes and furniture. But nothing felt lost.
We could see what we owned. And where it was. Even before everything had a permanent home.
– Tommy & Jess, London.
★★★★★
I moved twice in twelve months. Storalla was the only reason I knew where anything was either time.
– Ciara, Dublin.
★★★★★
My stuff was split across three locations for six months. Storalla was the only thing stopping me from buying things I already owned.
– Beth, London.
★★★★★
I’ve moved six times in four years. Storalla is the first system that actually works when you’re packing at midnight under pressure.
– John, Phoenix, AZ.
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FAQs
A moving inventory is a searchable record of everything you’ve packed and where it’s stored during a move.
Rather than relying on box labels or memory, you log items into specific containers (individual boxes, rooms, or storage locations) so you can find them instantly later. A good inventory removes the guesswork from unpacking and means you never have to open three boxes to find one thing.
Yes. Storalla is built specifically for this.
You log what goes into each box as you pack, generate and attach a free QR code label to the outside, and search your inventory any time you need something. When you’re looking for an item, the app tells you exactly which box it’s in and where that box is located. When you’re unpacking, you can scan a box to see its full contents before opening it. It works during the move, after the move, and for anything you’ve put into storage.
Write the destination room on the outside and replace the handwritten contents list with a printed QR code.
Physical labels tell movers where a box goes. They don’t tell you what’s inside it. Scanning the QR code shows the full contents instantly, without opening the box. One label tells movers where it goes. One scan tells you what’s inside. This matters most when you’re looking for something specific among twenty boxes that all say “Kitchen.”
Log items as you pack them, not after.
Assign each item to a specific named box and each box to a specific location (new house, storage unit, garage). When everything has a recorded container, you can search for it later rather than relying on memory. The most common cause of lost items during a move is not carelessness. It is the absence of a system that works under pressure.
Yes. Storalla works for any location where you store belongings.
This includes storage units, garages, attics, spare rooms, or a combination of all of them. You create a separate Place for each location and log what’s stored in each one. This means you can see what’s in your storage unit from your phone without making a trip, track belongings split across multiple addresses, and manage everything in one searchable inventory. It is just as useful for long-term storage as it is for an active move.
No. A checklist helps you remember tasks. Storalla helps you remember where your belongings are.
Checklists are useful for planning a move. Storalla is useful for surviving one. The focus is item-level visibility. Knowing what you packed, which box it’s in, and where that box is, even weeks after moving day. If you’re looking for a free moving checklist to plan your move, click “Build my Move Plan” at top of this page.
Storalla is free to try for 14 days, no credit card required.
After that, it’s £49.99 per year, which works out to less than the cost of one coffee per month. For most people moving house, it pays for itself before the move is even finished. Re-buying a single item you couldn’t find typically costs more than the annual subscription. And the time saved not digging through unlabelled boxes is worth more still.
