Slowly our house is emptying. It looks like it’s in a serious state of chaos at the moment. I’m having a hard time dealing with this. I like things in order. Organized. I know it’s temporary. Purging feels good. We are both hoping that moving into a smaller space will bring us this “liberating feeling”. Isn’t it funny how that is contradictory: we will be confined to a smaller space and yet we should feel liberated.
Every time we go to the condo I do feel this feeling that it will be our new home. I feel excited as well as a little panicky. Yesterday, as we were leaving it, I told Hubby that I felt as I did when we were on vacation, when we use our timeshare. A small but practical place awaits us. His answer: “Good, you’ll feel like you’re on vacation while at home!” – huh… not quite what I meant, but hey, it’s a good way to see things.
We had a nice house that we made our home. As I was taking down pictures today, I was a little sad. I will miss this place where we first lived together. I love our current house, if it wasn’t for the stink factor... At times I wonder if we made the right decision to move downtown. It’s not the idea of being in town that scares me; it’s the fact of being in a smaller space… Here’s a good reason to lose weight; I’ll have to fit in our new condo – now that’s what I call incentive!
5 comments:
Good luck with the adjustment. Sentimentality/Nostalgia just wreaks with your life at time doesn't it?
I think you'll be glad to be done with the smell. And if you hate it, you can always move again. Ooh did I say that? Hang in there... and nice attitude!
Good luck with the moving! I hate, hate, hate having stuff sitting around in boxes, so when I move I am incredibly motivated. I barely eat or sleep until everything's unpacked and put away. It's exhausting. But it feels good when it's all done!
We're getting ready for a big purge as well (although we're not moving).
I was stumbling around in the storage area of the basement the other day, and found boxes of crap that haven't seen the light of day since we moved in. Stuff like rusty old pans.
Whatever were we thinking? LOL
Good luck, girl. All will work out for you. Think of it as moving forward, not losing the stuff in past. =)
wreckless: Thanks! Emotions runs my life at times. And I agree with you, if we don't like it, we can move again, anyway, we know this is not where we want to finish our lives.
lizgwiz: Thanks, I hate having boxes around as well, but I'm not even at that stage yet - I'm simply packing! Imagine!
atm: We've been slowly purging in preparation of this move, but even with what we "got out" we still have a lot of crap!
christina: Thanks. There's so much stuff even losing some I woudn't notice! ;-)
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