We should know later today whether we've sold our house. However, Mrs Bugbear and I have been packing up in anticipation of the move anyway so that the house will look better to potential buyers. I rented two nominally 5x8x8' storage lockers. The company that I rented them picked them up yesterday so I could finally park in my own driveway again last night.
Item one on the packing agenda was my books. I have quite a few (two or three thousand) and they took up well over half of one storage unit. We also got rid of most of the stuff cluttering up our basement. The house now has that barren lifeless decor reminiscent of the pictures I see in my wife's architectural magazines.
I've decided to get an extra bin when we have the moving bins dropped off. This bin will come from the local waste management company rather than a storage company though.
It's past "later today" now. Well?
ReplyDelete"The house now has that barren lifeless decor reminiscent of the pictures I see in my wife's architectural magazines."
ReplyDeleteHa ha ha! This is both hilarious and true. I have other friends selling their $800K house and it looks lovely and spartan inside... because they too have shipped large containerloads of life stuff to storage.
I have only ever met one friend who has managed a true spartan existence. His fridge is usually half empty, his cupboards the same, his downstairs only has a couch and a couple of chairs and a dining room table, the basement a desk and TV. Not much in the way of bookshelves and all the other stuff.
Of course, he's single. But that can't be all there is to it... I'm single and I have enough crap to build a defensive wall when the Zombie Apocalypse comes....