(Another old post I’m getting out of my drafts)

The house we are moving moved to is around the same size as our current house, but with much less storage space. That in itself doesn’t bug me–I want a house to live in, after all, not just a place to store our stuff. But over the years, Geoff and I have accumulated lots and lots of stuff. We’ve done a pretty good job of getting rid of some things, but there is still so much. And as we get got closer to the moving date, I am finding myself less able to consider each individual item and make a decision about getting rid of it or not. Compounding the problem is the fact that much (most?) the stuff isn’t mine. It’s really hard and energy draining to debate about keeping or getting rid of stuff with Geoff, especially when we are already stressed with the move, so it goes into a box.

It’s not that I don’t have useless crap of my own, but in the interest of reducing the crap in my life, I’m a little more ruthless about getting rid of stuff.

Anyway, I have a feeling what will happen is we’ll move all this stuff to the new place  and then we’ll end up getting rid of more as we figure out what just doesn’t fit. Seems a very inefficient way to do things but oh well.

Postnote- this is indeed how it is working. The more Geoff unpacks, the more willing he is to get rid of stuff. But I’ve been doing most of the unpacking, which may not be the best idea, now that I think about it.