Purging

Even after getting rid of half of our belongings, we are finding that we STILL have a lot of stuff. You would think after moving 6 times (more then that if you count moving into and out of storage buildings and in with my parents) that we would be down to the bare essentials. Because of the situation, I found myself getting rid of things we need, example: our bed, and keeping things like a box of gift bags and wrapping paper or 8 jars of pasta sauce that I got for free (who thinks 8 jars of sauce will remain intact across 4,100 miles? ). I actually laughed out loud when I was packing it at the shear craziness. In all actuality those boxes probably won't even make it in the trailer because now that we have everything (well almost everything) packed and stacked in the living room we realize that we are going to have to purge just a little bit more. Like the 4 boxes of books that weigh about 60lbs each (for some reason it is just really hard to get rid of good books even when you haven't picked then up in 10 years). So, the things we "think" we just can't live without are really just things that will soon be forgotten when not in our presence. This has really been an eye opener of how attached we can become to our things.