Boxes of Boxes

28 - 30 July 2017

So before packing is (should be) thinning. I could only take a couple hours of the should I stay or should I go game before I had to do something else, like take a load to Goodwill or the storage unit. It was exhausting to look at each and every thing that you own and decide if it was worth keeping for at least a while longer. Or even what the hell it was.

We started off buying office boxes at Costco. Standard size boxes pack easier, and I had played the game of filling a large box with books and such heavy things before. My back couldn't do that again.

We started buying three boxes of 10 boxes each every day. We knew we were getting closer when we only bought 2 boxes of 10. By the time we only bought one box of 10 for the day the house was looking pretty empty.

Did I mention that we had lived in this house for 26 years? We had done a little too good a job stashing stuff in every nook and corner.

Our next AirBnB was a little studio apartment that had been finished on the second story at the back of a house. The place was bordered on two sides by one of those little man made lakes. It had an outside entrance via a set of stairs so it was pretty private, and it had obviously been done pretty recently. A nice, quiet little spot which was a little better than our first place.

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