The spare space in our house is slowly filling with boxes in preparation for our house move. We don’t move for another two weeks though, so I’m strategizing and packing all the things that we won’t need to use before we move.
Funny thing is, that’s a whole lot of stuff.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a hoarder. And I’ve been getting rid of unwanted and unneeded things for the last few months. I’ve been pretty brutal, in fact. I even got rid of that pair of shoes I wore once and never wore again because they put blisters on my heels but I just couldn’t throw them out because boy did I ever remember how much I paid for them. It’s really not until I started emptying cupboards and putting their contents into boxes that I started to quantify how much stuff we have.
One big box for those things. One small box for those things. Several boxes for those other things.
How much stuff do we have that we don’t really need?
If I never opened the boxes again, I wonder if I would miss whatever lurked inside them?
Trouble is, I’m an organizer. A place for everything and everything in its place, so I think I’d be compelled to open those boxes and sort their contents. I couldn’t just leave them sitting there. Or could I?
Have you ever left a box for so long that you couldn’t even remember what was inside it? And when you came across it again, what did you do with it?
