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Thursday, July 16, 2015

Moving Overseas is Hard Work

After a surprisingly little amount of discussion we decided a couple of things about our house:
  1. We've got WAY too much crap
  2. We don't want to move said crap to Paris
It may seem a bit radical but we've decided to sell/donate/trash about 95% of our worldly belongings, ship a few boxes of precious/necessary items to Paris, and put whatever's left in storage. I think it will feel really good to get out from under the clutter and it will most certainly make our lives a lot simpler.

Rather than renting a truck and making multiple trips to the dump, we ordered a large trash dumpster and had them drop it off in the driveway. When it's full they will come pick it up. No muss, no fuss. You can see the corner of it in the picture below:

Our house in Sammamish, 20 miles east of Seattle

We started upstairs and made pretty good progress yesterday. I've already made two trips to GoodWill and we've managed to move a lot of stuff out to the dumpster. But this is going to take awhile. Ugh.

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