August 3rd, 2008
But Why Do You Need Packers When You Are Giving Everything Away?
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Question: But why do you need packers when you are giving everything away?
Answer: I’m moving to Washington DC for a year and I’m giving away almost everything I own to three five strangers.
Giving away my stuff, I have learned, is more, not less, work than moving it from one city to another or putting it in storage.
Moving, so far, has been a simple two step process –
- At the old house, I pack everything I need for two weeks into a bag or two to carry with myself and indiscriminately stuff everything else I own into boxes and load them into a truck.
- At the new house, I unload the boxes from the truck and transfer all my stuff straight into cupboards so that I don’t have to look at it again.
So far, I have never really had to worry about the stuff that’s in the boxes. I have never had to ask myself if I really needed it at all.
In every city I have stayed in, I have bought more stuff than I have discarded. As a result, every time I have moved, there is even more stuff in the boxes and even less incentive to sort through it.
