{"id":308,"date":"2018-09-12T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/12\/the-purge-part-2\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T18:59:00","slug":"the-purge-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/12\/the-purge-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Purge (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
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\nI\u2019ve read about people jettisoning everything they own and moving to Mexico with just a couple of suitcases and a dream.<\/div>\n
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\nOther people pack all their things up and have professional movers transport them to their new, permanent home south of the border.<\/div>\n
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\nWe belong to a third category, one we are inventing.  <\/div>\n
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\nThe Third Category<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nWe love our house and its location in Colorado. We also realize that we won\u2019t be able to travel forever, and its one-level, ranch-style living will be perfect for aging in place someday. Therefore, we plan to come back at some point. In addition, our kids aren\u2019t out of college yet, and they will want their things when it comes time to move into their own places. So we are keeping the house and renting it out to friends. This decision means that we don\u2019t have to get rid of everything. However, it does complicate things by forcing us to decide what we\u2019re going to take with us and what we\u2019re going to store for an extended period of time. <\/div>\n
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This is where our stuff will live<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nFilling a Truck<\/b><\/div>\n
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\nSince we have a truck, we decided to purchase a topper for it so we can take more with us, particularly since we\u2019re also traveling with three cats and Lexie for the first year. At this point, we\u2019re hoping we can get everything we want to take into the truck. (More on how that goes when the time comes.)<\/div>\n
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\nStoring the Rest<\/b><\/div>\n
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In the meantime, we\u2019re left with deciding what to put into storage. That\u2019s been difficult for several reasons. First, both and Lisa and I \u201ccollect\u201d things. Not necessarily formally collect things, although I do have some stamps and coins that I collected when I was a kid, but more along the lines of accumulating things and keeping them on the off chance we may want them later. We had accumulated so much stuff that when we built the garage at our current house, we had to make it extra big so we could store all of this stuff.<\/p>\n

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\nPurging<\/b><\/div>\n
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We fit all our stuff in 3 of these. We are trying to cut down to 2.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
\nKnowing that the more we store, the more a larger storage space will cost each month, which could produce a very large bill over many years, we realized we need to undertake a purge. Actually, it is more like a pare-down. It is my goal to pare down by one-third. I have a decent idea of what that looks like, since when we moved to Colorado in 2009 we moved everything in three 8\u2019 x 8\u2019 x 16\u2019 PODS. Therefore, I\u2019d like to reduce what we store by the equivalent of one POD, or 1,024 cubic feet. <\/div>\n
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\nWorking backward from that number would require us to rent a 2,024 cubic foot storage unit. We\u2019ve rented a 10\u2019 x 20\u2019 x 11\u2019 (2,200 cubic feet) unit so the math works out. All that leaves is the pare-down. More on that later.<\/div>\n

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\nTo be continued …<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BOB I\u2019ve read about people jettisoning everything they own and moving to Mexico with just a couple of suitcases and a dream. Other people pack all their things up and have professional movers transport them to their new, permanent home south of the border. We belong to a third category, one we are inventing.   … <\/p>\n

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