Every time you move to a new place, there’s always the opportunity to re-examine your possessions.
You have to/get to buy new stuff if the new place warrants it, or if something you have now doesn’t survive the move.
And you get to get rid of stuff. Because it won’t fit in the new place. Or because you really don’t want or need it and you want to save yourself the trouble of moving it. Sometimes you’re in a hurry and you box it up and move it anyway. At which point it will then still need to be thrown or given away, or it will sit in boxes, unpacked, likely until the next time you move. Or forever.
I’m giving up my apartment and moving into Missy’s house. I’m practically already living in Missy’s house. Without the vast majority of my stuff. It has impressed upon me just how much I don’t want or need most of what I have. I also have the luxury of moving gradually over the next couple months.
Hence the 30-day challenge. Every day, for 30 days (which began on Monday, October 1) we are required to pick something to give or throw away, which we will photograph before we toss them or set them aside to be given away en masse.
I’m embarking on this journey for the reasons given above. Missy’s embarking on this journey because it was easier for me if she did it, too. And because she has about 15 boxes of stuff in the garage that she could probably toss without ever even looking at again.
Hopefully, by then, I will have significantly lightened my load, both literally and figuratively. While tossing things, I’ll also be packing the rest. Once the remaining furniture items get moved, I can call in someone to clean it for me. I am so unwilling to clean it myself, it is definitely worth the money to me to pay someone to clean up my empty apartment before the security deposit monsters get in there.
I feel lighter already!
