I just bought 14 boxes of varying smallnesses.

Today I went to Japantown and did some small box shopping.

I have a weird assortment of smallish things that I need to pack up and take with me to Texas.  For example, I found out that I had somehow purchased literally 12 packages of small rubber squid toys, 2 squids per package.  I believe my thinking was, "when will I ever get another chance to buy small rubber squid toys?  I had better buy a lot now!"  Also, I have the world's largest collection of 1-inch pins, seemingly several of them in the back pocket of every pair of pants I own.  I do not wear 1-inch pins, but somehow I collect them in my pants.  Also, Animal Crossing zipper pulls. 

All of my other small boxes have already been filled and filed away into other, slightly larger boxes, but I still had more stuff.  More boxes were necessary.

Here is what I purchased:

4 x interlocking small toy boxes / display cases.  for small toys.

2 x large toy box / display case.  for slightly larger toys.

4 x tiny tupperware-type boxes. for stickers and pins and also for all those random little extra pieces that come with toys now.  also, those damned foreign coins that keep showing up in the change jar!  and any unused but keepable keychains. everything must have its place!

4 x cardboard "comic book" boxes for anime-sized books.  These will contain notebooks and smallish files of 3x5 cards, and also all of the above-listed boxes, as well as some other larger but not that much larger boxes still down on my desk.

I told Katie that my whole plan is that when we unpack, it will be an exciting adventure through recursion as we unpack interlocking boxes filled with boxes filled with boxes filled with boxes filled with tiny pieces of brightly colored plastic, and that every level of recursion will be its own variety of fun because all of the boxes, no matter what the size, will be clever and will contain either: a) smaller, cuter boxes, OR b) toys and/or office supplies. And everyone loves toys and office supplies and small boxes!  Or at least I do, and that's what's important. 

Katie was unimpressed.