Showing posts with label chores. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chores. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

hoarding?

These past two weeks I have been working on a huge project: preparing for a moving sale. Who is moving? Well, technically, I already moved - to Germany. Now that I've lived there for two years and plan to stay for at least another two, I am coming to grips with the fact that there are lots of things I don't need anymore: Furniture from college that's not worth shipping overseas. Appliances like lamps and a television and a blender that wouldn't work in Europe because of voltage differences. Clothing that I don't wear or doesn't fit anymore because I either gained or lost weight. Books that I haven't cracked the binding on since high school, or earlier.
The frugal side of me says, "This is perfectly good stuff. Don't get rid of it! Hang on to it! Someday you're going to live in America again and if you keep all this, you won't have to buy all new stuff! Smart move!"

The realist side of me says, "You plan to live and serve in Germany as long as possible. Right now there is no concrete time limit to how long you'll be there. Really, when will you take up permanent residence in American again? Let someone else get some good use out of this stuff, and hey, if you can sell it maybe you can even earn a little extra cash to put towards your support funds."

So, I'm putting a TON of stuff up for sale. Most of it is new or very gently used as I only lived on my own for a year before moving to Germany. Sounds easy, right?