More, More, More!

It's been another productive day around the sticks and bricks, filled with more purging, more packing and more craigslist.

We scheduled yet another charity pickup for today. With our "staging" scheduled for later in the week, these people hit the jackpot. We got up early and started filling the driveway. In the end, they made a nice haul. And, we were free of lots more stuff.

We've packed a few boxes in the last few weeks, but today we got serious. Boris made a very interesting and adventurous trip in the early a.m. to pick up more moving boxes, and we filled them up. The china and crystal and lots of other stuff we think we can't live without is packed up in more boxes than we thought we'd have. We have a feeling this is how the whole thing works!

We are ready to part with a significant amount of our furnishings this week, so we took pictures and measurements of everything and started putting it on craigslist. Yes, we still love craigslist. But, today, it feels like a whole lotta work! We'll work into the night to get everything posted. Hopefully a good chunk will be gone by the end of the weekend. Then, we'll leave the rest to yet another lucky charity.

Through it all, the process has been tiring, energizing and a wee bit emotional. We're parting with some stuff we've had for a very long time. It has served us well. And, after all, it is just "stuff".

More to come.