Packing out -- Does it have to be awful?

Send us Fan MailFriends, no one likes packing out from their home.  It's stressful, emotionally draining, and just tiresome.  Some suggestions to make it maybe a little less awful, some funny (I think) pack-out stories, and hopefully some advice that will be useful to get through the process.  And don't forget the best part about packing out: the tape ball war once the boxes are all stacked up and all that is left is empty space and the ends of the tape rolls!