A Life In Boxes
My fiance and I are in the process of packing up our apartment to move across the country. I haven’t moved homes since I was 24 years old and living with my parents. That was 11 years ago and I have accumulated an absurd amount of things in the meanwhile. Parsing through it all has meant trying to figure out why I held on to any of this stuff, to begin with.
When my fiance moved in two years ago we quickly merged stuff, got rid of stuff, and bought more stuff together. As time passed I began to feel stifled in our cozy apartment. I wondered daily what we could get rid of. There was no way we needed everything in it. I wanted fewer things, more space. Not a larger footprint necessarily, just distance between items.
And then we decided to move.
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