A big part of any move is.....

....letting go!

We’ve lived in our home for over 26 years and even though we make regular trips to thrift stores and the Good Will, once we decided to move we knew we would have to get rid of a lot of stuff. Besides an older manufactured home on three quarters of an acre, there are two sheds on the property that we turned into our own storage facility.

After talking about it, we decided to get rid of everything in the two sheds. We figured if we hadn’t even looked at much of it for almost 26 years and hadn’t missed it, we didn’t need to move it to Arizona. Having a yard sale wasn’t in the picture for various reasons and the thought of pulling everything out, assessing it, and then making several trips to the Good Will or dump didn’t make a lot of sense.

We found a small local company that would come out, load up, and take everything away. Some things would get recycled and others would go to the dump - their call, their decision. We took a collective big breath and signed them up.

I drew the short straw. The rainy February day of the big haul-away, I oversaw the excavation of the sheds. I watched three men and one of their teenage sons hauling various parts of our lives out of the sheds, putting everything in a trailer to be hauled away. It was surreal. I had decided I would not ask questions or stop the process in any way no matter what I saw being put in the trailer, even things I had forgotten we had. I didn’t allow myself any second guessing. Everything went.

Did I mention we also had them remove an old spa that had seen better days many moons ago? The teen son did most of this himself and did a great job.

It felt a bit like the television show hoarders where everything is removed from the home while the hoarder goes through things doing their best to keep as much as they can. The difference was we didn’t go through anything and kept nothing.

Once the day was done, I felt we had truly made our first step to moving. It was amazing to go into the sheds and see them as they had been the day we moved in: empty. It felt like we were beginning our process with a huge first step. Little did we know how many other steps were still in front of us.

Moving with grace and ease -

Krysta