Lessons from my moving day:

Check to make sure that it won't be raining that day. (Note: it's not raining today, for example. Yesterday it just poured and poured and poured)

Apparently "move it all over" is not enough of a moving strategy for those of the male gender.

It's good to have friends who have access to vans.

In fact, it's just a good idea to have friends who are willing to show up on a rainy Saturday morning and spend 4 hours moving all your stuff from one point to another less than a mile away. And then come back the next day to get all the stuff that you didn't have packed in time for the day before (as well as the oogey stuff that was up in the rafters above the parking space).

It's also a good idea to keep stuff like soap, towels, bedding, silverware, tea, kettle and such close to the tops of boxes, so you can find them quickly in time of need. Otherwise, you tend to roam the apartment with a knife, cutting open every single box looking for the one thing you need right then. It's a good thing most of my boxes are rather shallow.