May 18, 2013

So, I decided to set up this blog to document our efforts to leave Atlanta, our home of 24 years, for the wilds of New Hampshire. As you might imagine, in that timespan we have accumulated many, many things and despite my periodic attempts to purge, there is a LOT of crap in this house. Not to mention the storage locker filled with things from my parents' house that I haven't looked at in the 15 years they have been housed there. Or the storage locker Alan rented down the road to deal with the house being too full. Luckily, we are both determined to reduce, reduce, reduce. We're going to rent for a year, so we will get rid of alot of our furniture -- all the grad school stuff and anything with wear and tear. No point in paying to move bookshelves either. What is this blog supposed to accomplish? Mainly it's for me, to let me feel like I am actually accomplishing something even though it's hard to see the difference. We've basically been on this journey for a little less than two weeks and in that time, I have gone through my books and thoroughly purged them -- very little of grad school left. I've also gone through my clothes and selected those for good will or resale. If I haven't worn it in a year or it doesn't fit, out it goes. Today, I got the camping materials out of the attic, sorted through them, and got them boxed up. Then I filled up three suitcases with warm clothing; we can check those bags when we head up to Quimby's later this week. And I filled up three boxes of quilts and blankets. More to go but it's a start.