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Leather bicycle seat. Never installed for 23 years, but it could
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“The things you own end up owning you. It's only after you lose
everything that you're free to do anything.” - Fight Club
To prepare for
our move onto a boat, I spent several years selling and donating things left
and right: eBay, craigslist, Amazon, and the Salvation Army were all familiar
stomping grounds. I have minimalism
in my blood and the thought of paring down our possessions to the essentials
makes me happy. Matt, not so much. Matt's
take is that I'm somewhat insane. You can draw your own conclusions.
Even though Matt is not
materialistic (except for the occasional lusting after camera equipment and
certain other gadget-y stuff), he is--to me--a hoarder. Okay, perhaps he is
just normal. But parting with
possessions that we might someday need was harder for him than it was for me. For
example, to me it was just a box of random, left over screws and fasteners. To Matt it was the potential solution to some
unknown problem we'd face in some part of the world where screws and nails were
yet to be invented. There were some
tears, pleading and some surreptitious trips to the garbage can, but in the
end, we were left with just a few boxes of possessions (quite a few, if you ask
me). Everything was loaded into one 6' x 7' x 8' moving pod, with room to
spare. We'll see how much of the contents will fit on the boat. There were some items that Matt didn't mind
parting with: we had a lot of fun drinking up the extra wine he had collected
through the years.
Visit The Monkey's Fist to find other posts on this
topic:
http://themonkeysfist.blogspot.com/2013/01/moving-aboard-transitions.html
I'm with Matt! You never know when you're going to need that....thing!
ReplyDeleteSo jealous of your Florida Christmas!
Will be watching for when you set sail!
Weren't you all supposed to be coming to Florida? Is that still happening?!
ReplyDeleteJim is getting a promotion at work (if all goes accordian (sc) to plan). So...they needed him back too quickly for us to go. The kids went down with Kristen and her Husband for a week. Now I'm suffering the consequences of piles of homework and whining. Almost makes me wish I could send my kids to boat school (as long as I wasn't the teacher!)
ReplyDeleteI'm writing this through a haze of laughter induced tears. My husband and I had just such a discussion about the 75 lbs of stainless steel screws, nuts and bolts that came with our boat. He wanted to trash them. I fought for them. It's not that we will be traveling to places where they have yet to be invented (giggle), it's that I have a diabolical plan to trade those little babies for beers in places where the stainless screw, nut or bolt is further away than the guy with the excess beers wishes to go for one.
ReplyDeleteYes, a method to the madness!
Ha, I didn't think about the beer value of stuff--point well taken. Funny thing is, Matt won't go digging through the stash for stuff he needs, preferring instead to head to the chandlery because it's easier and they only cost a few cents.
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