Packing, packing, packing

It seems like we spent weeks culling out, weeding, and disposing of unused, and unusable stuff. Why in the world we kept the stuff is beyond me, except it was probably laziness. Just not motivated to dispose of anything. For years we have been in a "we might need it, later" mode. I have been told recently by a long time friend, that she is moving from a 6000 sq. ft fully furnished house, so our challenge was no so great, even tho' our 2000 ft house contained memorabilia from 4 parents, at least 2 grandparents and our married life for the past 46 years, plus childhood memories from us both and our daughter.

At any rate, it was a little painful and very exhilarating to dispose of so much stuff. I would guess it was dumpster after dumpster load. I did keep ALL family pictures, even the ones from my mother’s past that I couldn’t identify (which is silly, but I kept them) I have 3 tubs of pictures. Visualize plastic WalMart tubs for storage. I have lots of pictures in NO PARTICULAR ORDER. I am guessing Nikki will deal with these someday—I’m pretty sure I won’t get around to organizing them . Perhaps I should at least identify them for future reference.

In the last post I mentioned auctioning antique furniture. One wonderful thing about that sort of furniture is that it has wonderful storage. Without the sideboard, or huge dresser, my stuff that was contained in it has no home (including my clothing). We are in the process now (in Arlington) of replacing the old furniture with something more suited to our lifestyle but obviously something with lots of storage.

I don’t know why, but we had saved some boxes from our move to Brownwood. We had told ourselves that we weren’t moving again, EVER. Don’t ever promise yourself anything like that, it will backfire. Anyway, we began with saved boxes and a church friend provided some more boxes from her husband’s business and N went on a tub buying spree. They are easier to carry, once they are packed, and we have them still for storage. We packed and packed and packed. At first we were organized and labeled and put like items in the same box, but as we got closer to the first U Haul date, we became less organized.