To take our minds off the tragedy which has so recently occurred, we have something which will keep us busy indeed. Here is what is no doubt typical of the preparation for translocating decades of junk possessions to the cover of a new roof or rooves, as the case may be. As a game ranger friend of ours used to say – with a different meaning! – this is a time to box carefully. 
The DP Photo Challenge: Containers.
When we moved I labeled the boxes, not known words, because I did not want to tempt the movers into helping themselves to my treasures. I used nicknames for stuff because in a smaller place and 100 boxes it can be tricky finding what you need.
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Good tip, indeed. Put the videos labelled soediv, and the tools as sloot, maybe?
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Yip!
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The mundane chores demand attention and so often they are the best medicine.
Wish you a smooth move, Mister N. Hope you and yours have fair winds and the Family Boat sets on an even keel asap.
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Thanks! I think some baling may be needed, though.
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I can imagine. Life is just too damn short.
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‘Tis.
Would you believe it; I spelt that ‘baling’ instead of ‘bailing’! I’m losing it.
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I’ve given countless boxes and bags of ‘stuff’ to my sister to rifle through. What she doesn’t want, she takes to the SPCA. It’s quite a job sorting the wheat from the chaff, but I’m getting there. Good luck with yours.
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It chore is an awful shore!
And yours – hey, that’s an idea! We should delegate to sister – only she gets out of it by diving downstairs. *sigh*
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After our last move we swore we’ll pare down to the bare essentials . . . we’ll see if we’ll be able to do it.
meanwhile . . . good luck.
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Good luck in sticking to that resolution … but things get added one by one by two by four by eight by …
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P.s – are you moving far?
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Up the road apiece – and no, a transition of Death Valley is not involved.
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Sometimes the practicalities demand attention. All the best with the rationalisation…
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One does wish one could make suggestions to practicalities about what they should do to themselves, but …
Thanks!
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I also have the problem with the what if l need it. Can never throw away stuff. We have a lot of goodies around. Esp fabrics and threads.
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But you USE all of those!
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He he yes l do use some of the stuff but have lots more in holders that l haven’t looked at in years. Sigh but someday soon l will!
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Gosh, that’s a big job….but as you say a welcome distraction
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The job is daunting in the egg stream – as in ostrich and Amazon.
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I am very sentimental when it comes to clearing out…the only way of looking at it , is that it will make room for all the new stuff you want to buy.
Like dresses( sure that this does not apply to you) I want to dispose of them because they are too small, too old fashioned, too long, too short.or just plain too something! But then I think, I shall slim, I shall shorten it, it might come back in fashion.
So it stays in the cupboard, pushed to the back. Never to be seen again….but throw it out..never..i might need it one day !!!!
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I’m sorry to hear of your tragedy. Packing and moving is a monumental tasks. Hope you find a better place.
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Thank you.
I wish it were better. It is a home, however, and it can be made manageable. The present one is spinning out of control!
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Not an easy task, thinking of you. If you throw something out today you’re bound to need it tomorrow
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Inevitable!
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I know the feeling! I still regret having parted with some of my “stuff”. C’est la vie.
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The battle is how to choose!
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That was us, this time last year, moving from biiiig 5-bed house and garden to wee house with a hearthrug for a garden. The garage is a bit full of boxes, but we managed to squeeze the car in before the first frost.
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It takes mental discipline which I am not going to find it easy to summon. I dislike throwing away so much as a piece of string – if such a thing can be found these days!
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We gave an awful lot away and sold a few things. The only thing that went in the re-cycling was clothes.
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With the latter, we have some chance of gaining some much-needed funds in a garage sale. Glad rags and sad rags both go down well in those here.
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Ours went to an organization which gives work to unemployed people cleaning, repairing, preparing used clothes for re-sale. They don’t do garage sales here, but villages have Vide Greniers (empty lofts) so I suppose that’s similar.
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I do wish we did Bar Coot Sales here to the same extent as they have in UK. We join our addicted daughter in visiting them every time we go over.
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