Unpacking - Prioritize
When those boxes arrive at your new home on move day, make sure to prioritize your unpacking. When you decide you are tired and ready to quit for the day, you want to make sure your important items are accessible. Look for those boxes that have your essential items; medicines, food for the evening and next day, some utensils, and toiletries. Make sure you find and hang your shower curtain and make your bed. So instead of grabbing the box in front of you, or the fun box, look for and unpack those important boxes, the ones you packed last and labeled to be opened first.
Unpacking - Duplicate
As you unpack, you will be making a lot of decisions about where to keep things. Until you get used to your new home, I suggest that you duplicate as much as possible. For example, if you are accustomed to reaching for a particular item in a cupboard to the right of your refrigerator, and your new home has an appropriate cupboard to the right of the refrigerator, placing those same items in that cupboard will allow you to more habitually go to that some location. After you get used to your new surroundings and start to figure out your daily flow, you can make and adjust to the changes one at a time.
Unpacking - Consolidate
As you continue to unpack, consider keeping your items consolidated by category until you decide how to distribute the items throughout your new home. You will most likely need to consolidate anyway, due to downsizing, so keeping the items consolidated until you get used to your new home arrangement and the flow of your activities, will make it easier to find things. For example, picking one location to store all office supplies makes it easy to remember where to look for any office supply you need. After you have been in your new home for a while, you may decide there is a particular location in the home, away from the consolidated office supplies, where you are more likely to use envelopes and stamps. At that point, you may decide that you would like to move the envelopes and stamps to the new location. One change at a time, after figuring out what works best in your new home, will be easier in helping you remember where things are located.