[Magdalen] My move

[Judy Fleener]

We moved out of our house last September.  We finally closed the storage
unit this past Thursday.  The result is that we have boxes all over the
place.  Three boxes of silver nobody wants, to valuable to take to
Goodwill, and I'd feel like a traitor to my family if I sold them.  This is
not table service but vases and platters.  We have too many books.  We have
put up almost no wall art while we are renting this condo.

Please pray that out house sells.  We love where we are living and want to
buy it badly.
Judy

On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 11:23 PM, James Oppenheimer-Crawford <
oppenheimerjw at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have my grandfather's mahogany desk, the dropfront bookcase my
> grandmother remembers writing a letter to her own mother while her Papa
> stood behind her and helped her make all the letters. There's also a formal
> dining room set, a teak bed frame and some other stuff, and I have no idea
> what will become of any of it when I die.
>
> Picked up by strangers, I suppose.
>
> Oh well, it's only stuff...
>
> James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
> *“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
> except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy
>
> On Sat, Aug 8, 2015 at 8:52 PM, Marion Thompson <marionwhitevale at gmail.com
> >
> wrote:
>
> > As one who is a hoarder and sees sentimental value in just about
> > everything, I have come a long long way on this move.  Of course I still
> > have a shed full of boxes at Jim's along with a very large collection of
> > framed pieces there, most of which have_great_ sentimental value, so I'm
> > not out of the woods yet.  Living in my little house with NO storage
> space
> > or buildings will  force a lot of hard decisions on me yet.  Its very
> > different nature will dictate to a considerable degree what can stay and
> > what must go.  I managed to get rid of much/most of the furniture to
> places
> > that are not the dump and I hope I can find good homes for some of the
> > older bigger framed things.  My kids don't want any of it.  In fact, my
> > daughter returned pieces she had had for a few years (she moved today,
> too)
> > and handed on her bedroom furniture to me.  Is that how it should
> work?????
> >
> > Anyway, in so many ways this is a fresh start.
> >
> > Marion, a pilgrim
> >
> >
> > On 8/8/2015 6:07 PM, Jon Egger wrote:
> >
> >> Marion,
> >> When we move to our apartment in December last year we went from 3000sqf
> >> to
> >> 950sqf.  It was so good for me to get out of the place that had so many
> >> memories of Plaintiff.  (Geez...ten years since my divorce!)
> >>
> >> Now I apologize for turning this thread into MEMEME, but I need to get
> >> things off of my back. The move was easier for me because I don't hold
> >> attachments to things like Dawn does. Stuff is stuff, and even what I
> have
> >> is given away to close friends and such. (I gave my FDR collection to a
> >> priest in the diocese who loves FDR as I do. She was delighted and it
> made
> >> my day! I gave my daughter my Nemadji pottery collection, my Kilban cat
> >> collection, and my Coptic hand cross.  She loved them too.) The things I
> >> took amounted to 7 boxes.  Many things, like my collection of Dylan
> music,
> >> books, and various ephemera, and so on I left for the people doing our
> >> estate sale.  I literally felt free after so many years.
> >>
> >> Dawn, though, is a true hoarder.  Even with leaving back lots of her
> books
> >> and other things, half of our living room is stacked with boxes...and
> her
> >> bedroom is stacked with boxes 6 and a half feet high.  She says she'll
> get
> >> to it, but she hasn't.  I may call her new church (Grace, in Liberty,
> Mo)
> >> and see if they could get a group of people together and move the damn
> >> boxes!  It's difficult for me not having room.  I can't even get outside
> >> on
> >> our patio to chill.  Lord knows I have enough tubing to get out there.
> >> (She was a Navy brat and an Air Force wife and she never turns lights
> off
> >> if they're not needed...I thinks this comes from never having a
> >> gas/electric bill in the service.)
> >>
> >> Here endeth the rant.
> >>
> >> On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Roger Stokes <
> >> roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 08/08/2015 01:07, Marion Thompson wrote:
> >>>
> >>> We are a select group!  You have my EVERY sympathy in return!  Lucky
> you
> >>>> -- both a basement AND a garage!  But at the end of the day I am
> >>>> delighted
> >>>> with my new home, as I believe you are with yours!  I have no wish
> ever
> >>>> to
> >>>> move again this side of the veil.
> >>>>
> >>>> Likewise me.  When I retired last year I had to move since my house
> came
> >>> with the post I had.  That was a *very* significant downsizing (by a
> >>> factor
> >>> of 5 in floor area) so it was a question of "keep what I need" and get
> >>> rid
> >>> of the rest.
> >>>
> >>> Roger
> >>>
> >>>
> >
>



-- 
Judy Fleener, ObJN
Western Michigan