Yup, I'm going to post pictures of our move.
Why?
(Shoulder shrug) ... because we have them.
I've divided it all into phases for you.
Phase 1: This phase lasted the longest and was by far the most fun for this aspiring minimalist. It was the "get rid of everything you don't want to move" phase.
Here are a few (random) casualties.
Phase 2: Assess what's left. What a depressing phase! Even after loading cars and dropping items off at the dump and Goodwill again, and again, and again, we still moved a lot of stuff.
I blame the kids.
Pulling the couch out was particularly exciting (ahem, disheartening)! I'm pretty sure we found at least twenty of their books.
Phase 3: Pack boxes. This phase continually kept me laughing, because we Ashbaughs are kind of ghetto (cheap) when it comes to moving supplies, and so the majority of our belongings were stowed in boxes rounded up at the local liquor store. Our house looked like, well, a liquor store.
(Actually, it looks like this picture was taken before all the liquor boxes showed up. You'll have to take my word it.)
Phase 4: Load and unload. The truck that is. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to track down the photo taken of our moving truck's jack digging into the road outside our new house and getting stuck there.
And for some reason, it slipped all our minds to snap a shot of the USAA tow truck un-sticking the moving truck from the road outside our new house or to take a pic of the long divot dug into the road outside our new house by our moving truck. Oh well!
Friends, it was a sight to see.
Phase 5: Deal with the wreckage. If it always seems like there's too much to pack when you move, unpacking is even worse.
What is all that stuff? Say it with me. "Goodwill. Goodwill. Goodwill."
We're still sitting somewhere around here.
But there's been progress.
Lesson Learned: I really thought we had majorly cut back on our possessions. Turns out, I didn't have a clue.
* Linked up at Living Well, Spending Less and Ivy and Eleplants
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