Vacuosity

Slim fast

In order to make the move to Winnipeg in one shot, we've got to get all our worldly possessions into one tiny 14 foot cube van.

I'm working hard to maximize that space; we're packing as densly as possible, and I'm putting a tier into the upper two feet of the van to house a level of boxes. That buys us an extra 24 Rough Totes. Ths fact remains, though, that a good deal of what we've got can't come.

We've spent the past five days deciding what absolutely has to be on the truck, what we can just throw away, and what we can sell at a garage sale, which I hope to have tomorrow, weather permitting.

It's strange to me to be actively eliminating our things when we have spent the past few years accumulating them. It goes against the nature of our society, I think. It's our nature to acquire. We like to shop, receive gifts, find, win, get. It's an ingrained behaviour to have more. And now we have to fight that tendency to keep. It's not easy. And even still, today I went and bought new clothes for the kids at Old Navy.

posted by David @ 12:17 a.m.