I hate moving.
Since the beginning of college, I’ve moved probably a dozen times between house moves with my family or moving back and forth from dormitories. This includes the process of deciding what crap to pack, throwing out crap I don’t need or don’t want anymore, the actual process of packing my crap, the physical moving of crap from one place to another, and then unpacking that crap, and figuring out where that piece of crap’s new home with be in the new location.
I DESPISE moving!
I’ve been in my current apartment for two years now and that’s by far the longest I’ve stayed in any one place for a very long time. That being said, I’m very eager to finally leave this place. My commute is a bit too long and being under the rule of a landlord isn’t exactly what I’d call ideal. It would also be a huge improvement to move to a place that gets an equal distribution of heat in all the rooms! 🙂
In preparation of the impending move, I’m beginning to mentally go over all of the items I’ve procured over the last few years. I could stand to do without some things; especially since Adam and I will be coming into the marriage with duplicate items like dressers and desks! I’m a little disheartened to part with my old wooden desk that matches my bedroom furniture, but I can’t see us having space in the new apartment for a desk that is mainly used for its drawer space.
In my lifelong quest to improve myself, as I’ve mentioned before, I’m an avid reader of blogs like LifeHacker. Today they posted a link to another blog outlining “Nine Quick Tips to Identify Clutter.” It’s good every once and a while (especially when moving!) to assess our material possessions and ask ourselves why we keep these things around?
I’m slightly envious of the minimalist home owners out there that are able to run their entire household on the very bare essentials. I’m a sentimental person and enjoy doing things like creating scrapbooks and am susceptible to holding on to mementos which in turn take up space. I also anthropomorphize objects easily which makes it hard to part with things, but that’s a problem unto itself.
I am so, so, SO with you on moving. I’ve been in my place for three years now. Also the longest amount of time I’ve spent in any one place. And for the past three months, my boyfriend has been living with me. Talk about clutter. My fish tank has been removed, but the spot has been taken up by boxes, which sucks. His “dresser”… is laundry baskets with clothes that just get on the floor. I’m tempted to tell him to go up to NH and get his dressers out of storage… I despise clothes on the floor because it’s so easy to… not let happen.
Vent complete… good luck with moving… don’t hurt yourself or Adam. Heh.
I also wish I could figure out the minimalist way of life. I think once in a while that I don’t really have all that much… but I do… Big stuff, like a couch, bed, desk, tooooo many art supplies… sigh.