Hum,
Is anal retentive hyphenated?
You could just touch a metal lamp/heater (plugged in ) or a central heating system to discharge the static... better still connect a piece of wire around your waste and tie it to said object..
I , on the other hand, would not bother and just pile everything together into a big box;
no precautions and I've never zapped anything...
but then again i don't live in a house with deep shag-pile carpets that transform me into a mutant miss magneto