One of the biggest problems at the moment is the amount of things we need to get rid of or store. It comes as quite a shock when you climb into the attic to find a sled that we returned from Germany with thirty two years ago still rusting in piece covered with cobwebs.
Needless to say we are being quite ruthless, if it's of no use in the RV or of use in later life then it's pointless keeping it.
We visited several storage people like, Enterprise, Store-it and Store-with-us and they're not cheep so check around. We did manage to get a reasonable rate when we mentioned that it would be a long term store. Then there is packing material and cardboard boxes to purchase. Car-boot sales, the local recycling tip, shredding years of collected paperwork and all the clothes you've collected that have only worn once or sometimes never, needing to be culled.
I have thrown out socks that have never been on my feet and there will be shoes that probably have seen nothing of the road and only the inside of the cupboard. How come we buy all this rubbish? most likely it was an impulse thing. Well that will all come to a grinding halt, if it don't do several jobs at once and take up as little space as possible its out.
We're not down hearted about it as if the deal on the house should fail at the last hurdle we can congratulate our selfs on having had one almighty clear-out.
Reselling things on Amazon and EBay have proved useful at least we get something back, after all one mans rubbish is another's treasure.
We have worked it out that it's only seven weeks before we need to be out of here and in our daughters so its boxing this and throwing that and steadily chipping away at the rubbish mountain.
OK its back to the trash box.
More later.
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