See? And here we thought we are all kinds of special in the "too much stuff" department.
So.... The house is on the market, and as soon as it sells, we get to hit the road. Finally. Seeing all of you do battle with the same Stuff demons that we do is so re-assuring. Having gotten down to the things that meant the most, and that all fit into a 4 horse trailer, 9 years ago and loving the light feeling of having little..... well - I really thought that I would always easily live that way. I'll tell you what though, I looked around a few weeks ago in absolute astonishment at all the stuff that now fills our home! Its insane! And there are just the three of us (2 peeps and a dawg).
I know that once I get going on the "toss-it" mode things will go quickly. The problem is all of the family stuff that I need to get to family members - a lot of which is furniture. We are in Alaska and everyone else is in or around the Midwest. I have to examine the feasibility of hauling it with us and just making a beeline when we take off. Most is either too big or too heavy to ship without spending a fortune.
That issue aside - I think we might just want to rent space in an antique store to sell a lot of things. Get everything together, make a nice display, rent space for maybe 2 months and hope that most everything sells in that time. Does that seem like it might work? There is so little up here in the way of nice antiques that the few shops in town do an incredible business.
Other things, including furniture can go with our kids living here in Alaska. They are all young and just finishing school and/or starting life on their own. This is such an undertaking that I am doing everything I can to avoid having all of it hit us at once, like when the house sells.
So - to all you paring downers out there - good luck and Happy Trails! I will stop babbling now and go read more posts.
