Sunday, July 22, 2007

The Minimalist Journey

Well after the first post I went on the search for formatting help. Turns out it's not as simple as I thought it might be but google has a document and spreadsheet thingy I think I'm going to like.

I tried to go back to my packing. The way that's supposed to work at least in my head is I unpacked all the kitchen boxes, brought them home and intend to reuse them. This was supposed to be a circle project of packing unpacking and repacking same boxes. Not so simple. The apartment has two closets. One in each bed room. The size of a normal clothes closet. Not tiny but not big. I currently have a decent sized closet plus another small one, both currently still full of stuff. Right now I'm only working on the things that have been piled on the furniture that was moved last weekend. So I have like 8 boxes worth of stuff on the floor plus who knows how much still in the closets. If you did the math your probably asking where it's all going to go. Good question. I paused to try to figure that out before continuing on the packing. I remember reading about a year ago about the minimalist life. How people only have the things they need. Problem is I'm a pack rat, my mother is a pack rat, she's embraced the "not keeping anything unnecessary" idea much better then I have. She seems to be good at packing. I've moved a couple times but in the process always moved back with more stuff then I left with. I still have about four boxes in the garage from when I was 20 that have yet to be unpacked. I do have an extra room for storage but only until January. I could push that deadline a little farther but i really don't want to. So now I just have to figure out how to be a minimalist before the day's over....

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