Stuff

Some of you remember George Carlin. He used to do a skit about stuff and how we tend to collect stuff and take it with us wherever we go.

We can relate. We have Windarra and our stuff on Windarra which is now in Emeryville, California. Some of our stuff is also with Jesse and Sarah in Portland, Oregon. In Seattle we had two storage units. Our stuff is spread over 3 states!

Originally we had one unit but when my parents moved into assisted living and we sold their house we put some of their things in another storage unit. Over the next few years we paired down their things but some of our things, like winter clothes, boat parts, charts, bicycles, etc found their way into this other storage unit.

On Thursday, Sept. 23, we flew up to Seattle to deal with our two storage units. First we took items to furniture consignment. Next we culled through boxes of boat parts. We sorted items into the following groups: take back to Windarra now, take back to Windarra before leaving the US, take to consignment, take to the dumpster fairy or just to the dumpster. Next we sorted through the remaining boxes. Many items went to Goodwill. We also sorted through the file cabinet and boxes of paperwork and took several bags to be shredded and destroyed.

At the end of nine days we cleared out one storage unit completely and the original unit has a lot more space in it that ever before.

We are now on our way back to Windarra. We still have stuff in three different states but less stuff than we had before.

No worries
SV Windarra