Cottontail

Very exciting but also sad to be leaving the place with all those associated memories. I hope it all works out for the best!

I can definitely understand the feeling. I just recently relocated at the beginning of July, something that was planned for over a year. The planning and deciding to move was fairly easy. However like you, actually doing it was rather hard. I left the area that I grew up in and lived around most of my life, except for 6 years after high school when I went off to college.

I was rather surprised by how much moving affected me, since I've left the area before. I even moved to the same city I went to college in, so I know it well. I suppose a lot of the feeling comes from it feeling a lot more permanent this time.

Best of luck with your move and everything involved!

Thanks, guys. It'll be a huge relief just to get this sale done. One thing at time, I guess!

Kale, like you, I'm leaving the area where I grew up. Except for the four years I was away at college, I've always lived within 30 minutes (by car) of my parents' house. Now it'll be about two hours -- not exactly "far away," but like you said, there's the matter of it being permanent.

It's so easy to take things for granted. I know it will be good for me to revisit many of these things in the coming months. But, like so much health food, it's unlikely to taste all that great going down.

Hope the inspection and sale goes through okay. Now the fun begins. Packing up all the stuff and deciding what to keep and what goes. Hope you weren't too much of a pack rat. I would imagine it'll require renting a storage shed. Good luck and don't hide your diapers too good that you can't find them.

Heheh... Yeah, I'm not too much of a pack rat, but a family of four can end up with quite a collection unintentionally! I have some hobbies that take up a lot of space, but I've already liquidated or moved all of my hobby collateral. Most of what's left in the house is furniture and other common stuff.

As I mentioned in my last blog, we already own the house we expect to move into next year, so a lot of stuff can go there straight away. Still, as the school year is about to start, we've decided to stay nearby in an apartment until next spring -- bit of a complicated plan, but I think it'll be cool.