by D. Brent Miller
The big weekend finally arrived. The weekend of closing on our new house and the beginning of the move.
With last minute preparations, packing, trying to remember where all those documents were placed, we headed off to our closing Friday afternoon, and signed the papers on our new house. Immediately after that, the big move commenced.
Some people move every couple of years, perhaps to just weed out the accumulation of junk. Others avoid moving like the plague, and accumulate the kind of material items that overwhelms the executor of the estate after a death. Then there are the in-betweens–don’t move often enough to weed out the junk, and so boxes keep getting moved but never opened.
We’re kind of in that place. In the apartment was everything we needed for day to day living. In storage is the rest of our household from our previous home in South Bend, Indiana. Only a couple of times in the past nine months have we gone into the stored items to look for something we needed. Otherwise, all that stuff remains boxed up and unused. It will probably be that way when those items finally arrive at the new house–still boxed up, stored on shelves in the basement, and unused for who knows how long.
I have been thinking about weeding out some of those possessions, to thin out the material things, but some items are going to give me trouble. I have a love affair with books. I have boxes of books and three huge bookshelves full of books. I regularly go to the book store just to stroll through the aisles and look at books–how big they are, how they are bound, and to examine the quality of the printing. And, that’s all before reviewing the actual content! Thinning my book collection will be a huge task.
I almost forgot. The weekend has been so busy, I haven’t been to the book store yet to pick up my copy of the latest Harry Potter!
Yes, this is going to be a tough task.–DBrent
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