Downsizing
Since we were getting ready to move to Richmond, VA, this week I had off from work. In fact, I was unemployed. Our POD with most of our belongings was going to be picked up on Thursday the 28th, so this left very little time to get everything packed and loaded.
During this process, it was interesting to me, to see how much stuff you accumulate of time. We had lived in our house in Belding for 12 years. There is so much stuff that is on the boardline of keeping it or not. Of course there are "no brainer" things like the kids school pictures, etc., that there was not question that we were keeping. And there are the other "no brainers", like broken kids toys that we had lost years ago, only to be found again, that had no problem finding their way to the garbage.
What was hard to get rid of were the boarderline items. Most of these were my things. Things like a padlock, a set of hinges, a box of screws, wood shims, fishing lures,....on and on. Things that would some day come in handy, so I kept them, yet when would that some day be?
I threw away or sold in a yard sale boxes and boxes of nails and screws. What was one of the first things we had to buy when we arrived in Richmond????....Two boxes of screws. I had an awesome cafeteria dining table I salvaged from a prison. It had 8 seats and a stainless steel top. Then whole thing was made of steel with plastic seats. I had visions of this sitting on our lower patio in Michigan. I must have moved thing thing in the garage and from the garage to the shed a dozen times over 3-4 years. I could have had it put together in an hour. Ultimately, Jenny had to practically beg someone to buy the damn thing for $25.
It sure stinks having to leave your "treasures" behind, those "treasures" you pick up along the way, but I guess it was a good thing to ultimately purge this junk so I can start accumulating more. Who knows, maybe I'll end up with a picknic table I'll actually put together and use.
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