Big truck full of our stuff is gone, we are spending last night in San Mateo with good friends, hit the road tomorrow, sale of 3408 closes on Thursday. It's been a whirlwind.
I thought we lived light, sort of minimalist, but boy was I wrong. Even after an extended process of cleaning out, giving away, recycling responsibly or just plain hauling stuff to the dump we still shipped 10820 pounds. That is 280+ individually numbered boxes, or crates, or furniture items, or drill press (and table saw, and band saw) or whatever. Wow.Never expected I would agree with this guy about anything, but in this case I can sort of understand his thinking: "... I'm going to spend my evenings by a fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned." -- Richard M. Nixon
Well, maybe I still con't actually relate to him, but ... we have over 5 tons of stuff??? How did that happen?
Check out this website when you have a chance, a photographer went around the world and took pictures of families in front of their homes with all of their possessions: http://menzelphoto.photoshelter.com/gallery/Material-World-Family-Portraits/G0000Ip09fSBViW8/C0000d0DI3dBy4mQ
ReplyDeleteExcellent site! Mali photo is my platonic ideal re possesions. Of course, that family's platonic ideal would probably be our house.
DeleteStuff breeds in dark closets and under beds. the 5 tons will actually increases while in the truck. Safe travels.
ReplyDeleteIf stuff does breed in the dark... with 5 tons and 3000 miles, who knows, we might have a new baby grand when we unpack!
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