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Notes on moving
Pack your own things, but unless you live in a studio and have only an IKEA futon and a twin bed to contend with, you are better off hiring someone to load, drive, and unload.
The nice people who will help you move can also wrap your closed shelves and drawer chests in plastic, and move them with all the contents still inside, so unless you have the contents carefully stacked and/or have fragile things inside, do not bother boxing those.
Do not attempt to move a 50" plasma screen from one place to the next all by yourself. You will break it.
That said, 2023 is not the worst time in the world to buy a new screen, now that decently prices OLEDs are widely available.
You may find, while packing, at the bottom of a never-used drawer, hidden under a decade-old abstract book and the 2011 ASH guidelines on idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, some medical instruments you used a few times during medical school and internship for a full neurologic exam and never again after that, said instruments being a brilliant white in you memory, or at the very worst a dull gray from all the lint collected in your white coat back when you still wore one, but now appearing old and yellow, like something you’d find in your dad’s office that looked like it was from the 1960s but was actually just a few years old only everyone back then smoked so the thing had no choice but to look and smell like it was made of nicotine, which now — the look, not the smell — come to mind when looking at that medical instrument of yours, only it couldn’t be nicotine because it’s not the 1990s and you are not in Serbia, so did something else go terribly wrong with the plastic? No, it did not; you are getting old.
The first objects to enter the new household, once you confirm there is running water and electricity, are a modem and one or more routers. Place them on the floor and arrange furniture around them.