We have made the plunge and are purchasing a townhouse. Luckily looking forward to the end result is exciting enough to go through the energy draining process of moving. Counting moves where we physically moved the majority of our belongings, since Randy and I got married, this will be move number 9.
Randy will be collecting our things from Kentucky where they have been in storage in our dear friends’ basement for 2 1/2 years. This is the stuff that we didn’t need or have room for in our aparment (e.g., washer & dryer, weed eater, china hutch, etc.) and when we finally open up all those boxes, it’ll be like Christmas. Or will it?
We’ve lived without this stuff for a long time. There is the school of thought that we just don’t need it all. We’ll try to employ the guidelines from Peter Walsh’s book “It’s All Too Much: An Easy Plan for Living a Richer Life with Less Stuff” which make a lot of sense. Over on 43 Folders, Merlin Mann is taking Walsh’s advice to heart and he has blogged about his journey to a richer life. I picked up my copy of this book from the side of my bed and am re-reading it in preparation for facing our stuff.
That aside, I am very excited to move into a new home with more room than our apartment, a patio where we can use our gas grill, and a kitchen that might hold most of my kitchen wares. And we won’t have to walk up three flights of stairs to get to our front door!
At the moment, my life is all about packing.
Oh and if this isn’t enough to do, the company I work for is moving to a new building the day before we move into our new home. When it rains, it pours.
I did the same thing when I moved from Arizona back to KY. Left all my stuff boxed with a friend. Finally I gave it all to them. I just didn’t need it anymore and I stayed in KY.
I can’t believe this is move number 9!!! I hope you like your new house. I can’t wait to see pictures. Joe is reading “It’s All Too Much” right now, and then it is my turn. When’s the moving day?
Got your “moving card”; very cute! Can I also say, April, you are the first internet celebrity I have known in person–your picture was linked at the MSN home page-I was looking at an article about grocery store savings which led to me reading about baby showers and there you were! A very good photo of you and onsie!