Well, it’s happened. We have now actually lived in a house for more years than we have ever lived in a place before. (We’ve moved once since arriving in town.) Notwithstanding the sometimes upending sensation of moving during our military careers (on average every two years which means sometimes twice in one year), that did tend to cause us to shed ourselves of items in conjunction with packing up. I look around now and say, “Hmmm, we really do seem to have a lot of stuff.” Yes indeed, with not having to go through and get ready for packers, it really is easier to simply find another spot to put things. Or in the paraphrased words of the late George Carlin, “We have too much stuff, so we buy a bigger house, and what do we do? Buy more stuff.”

The obvious solution is to do a serious clearing out here and I recently had a discussion with my husband about that. He agrees in principle although as I think I  have explained in a previous post, I have to agree not to toss/donate things unsupervised. In reality, I think this will have to be a multi-phase operation because there are some items I plan to swap out, but they are dependent upon getting other items as replacement and I doubt that will happen this summer. We have a lot going on and having the new bookcases/entertainment center built isn’t going to happen and I can’t get rid of the current ones without having the new ones in place. That’s not a bad thing, merely a fact of timing. So, let me map out a plan and see what happens.