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[sorcyress]

I have too much stuff.

I say this all the damn time, but there's definitely a regular period in my life where I say it louder and more empathically than others. That time is whenever I have to pack, *especially* when I have to pack for an entire summer. I'm leaving Dock 18 (and Camberville itself) on May twelfth, I really ought to have my things sorted out and packed up before then.

I really really *really* want a permanent address. Toss everything into a uhaul or a minivan, drag it from the dorms to an apartment, and then have a place with real furniture, that I pick out (or scavange or whatever) and real bookshelves, and that I don't have to dissassemble eight months later.

The bookshelves are really the big ones. Milk Crate Shelving is incredibly cheap and quite simple to rearrange as necessary, but to have real shelves, to have a real *place* where I can put up shelves...oh man, do I want it.

I really ought to work on getting rid of things. Sigh, I've *never* been good at getting rid of things, I grow attached. Especially books, but really...everything. And yes, I do believe it's about time I started making proper packing lists of everything I own, and what I plan to do with it.

Expect this journal to be more rambly, hopefully more photobased, and more scattered than usual. I've got to put my life into tiny boxes for a while.

~Sor
MOOP!

Comments

[harena.livejournal.com]

Ohman, i totally know what you mean.. i am at heart a packrat (you've seen my house.. my craft room >.>) so it's really difficult for me to let go of Stuff as well.

Moving from NC to NV with 3 people, one a packrat worse than me, one an 11yo boy, & one a 9 month pregnant woman was a nightmare.. moving back four years later, with the same packrat worse than me, a 15yo boy, and yet again pregnant (well it was only 5 months this time but still) was even worse... it all comes down to packing and moving ALL your worldly possessions is a royal pain in the ass & i feel with you. Bring on the rambly posts, i can take 'em ^_^

*hguglesmuchly*

[thorog.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Saying "I have too much stuff" is one thing. Actually doing anything about it is a completely different thing that it looks like Rose and I are going to have to educate you on.

[herbertinc.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly good at getting rid of things, though not the impressive minimalist-with-style that my mother is.

I very much loved having an apartment this year (and next), with my own furniture and books and kitchen that I don't have to move. Though, it is a bit of a production to move everything (mostly clothes and my bike) to Boston for the summer. I could have easily just stayed here, but then no B.

Summer 2010 for us maybe?

[sonsashi.livejournal.com]

I used to feel that way when I was moving back and forth from home to dorm, to new home, to new room, to...well I still feel that way. I have too much crap, and I am sick of moving it around. I tried cleaning my room the other day, and I couldn't. I need bookshelves too. >.

[madbodger.livejournal.com]

I really ought to work on getting rid of things. Sigh, I've *never* been good at getting rid of things, I grow attached. Especially books, but really...everything.

I'm the same way. I tried to get out of it by selling stuff on eBay, but it's a bother. I tried to give stuff away (that stands, pretty much everything I have is "free to good home", but my friends are like me and don't need more stuff).

Want some books?