Decluttering...
Ok, so last night I decided to go through the books on our bookshelves. I'm planning to move somewhat soon, and planning to go pretty much cross-country, so taking ALL my books (I am a distinct bibliophile) would be a pain. I pulled a TON of books off the shelf to find new homes. Tonight I weighed them: 164lbs of books in all! I told my husband the full number and he went "D: That's almost MY weight in books!" (I'd mentioned that I was pretty sure I'd pulled my own weight in books off the shelves.)
This isn't even counting the pile of anime and games that got pulled from the neighboring bookshelf. We haven't weighed those yet. We did get 20lbs of dead laptops out to the car, to be dropped off at Best Buy (I think they take old electronics...) later in the week. We'll have to hit GameStop to unload the various games and the old DS for store credit.
We'll be doing a LOT of unloading extra stuff over the next few months as we work to pare down what we have so that we can take most of it with us. Furniture, of course, would have to be stored and shipped later, or taken in a moving truck. For the initial trip at least, we'd have just our car (which we need to clean out, but that will probably wait for either spring or a thaw, it's been hanging out in the single digits most of the time lately, and not always to the right of zero).
It'll be interesting to see just how many pounds of stuff we can get out of our place....
This isn't even counting the pile of anime and games that got pulled from the neighboring bookshelf. We haven't weighed those yet. We did get 20lbs of dead laptops out to the car, to be dropped off at Best Buy (I think they take old electronics...) later in the week. We'll have to hit GameStop to unload the various games and the old DS for store credit.
We'll be doing a LOT of unloading extra stuff over the next few months as we work to pare down what we have so that we can take most of it with us. Furniture, of course, would have to be stored and shipped later, or taken in a moving truck. For the initial trip at least, we'd have just our car (which we need to clean out, but that will probably wait for either spring or a thaw, it's been hanging out in the single digits most of the time lately, and not always to the right of zero).
It'll be interesting to see just how many pounds of stuff we can get out of our place....