Tomorrow marks the conclusion of an era. It’s been an all-consuming 6 months of apartment searching, apartment touring, more searching and touring, and finally- after we found the perfect building- packing to move. I’m moving from a 4 bedroom townhouse into a 700 square foot apartment with my boyfriend. The process of packing up a large house has been a long and painful one. We’ve found that the curse of too much space is finding the constant excuse to find things to fill it with. After three years of living here, we’ve done a good job of filling the space. Now, we have to get rid of over half of what we’ve accumulated.
In this time I’ve become a Craigslist pro. I listed the majority of my furniture on there and made enough money to furnish the new place with new (smaller) things. A lot of what was left over we’ve been able to donate or throw away. No more old college papers and notebooks stored away in boxes, tacky holiday decorations that have never made it out of the box, and clothing from 10 years ago that no matter how out of style it was- I was never able to part with it. I must admit, there’s something freeing about ridding yourself of excess stuff- it’s like purging all the clutter out of your life and starting over new.
So tomorrow we move. It’s going to be a long day. I’m excited to be in a new space and explore a new neighborhood. I’m also excited about the amount of money I’ll save on gas from being able to walk everywhere from my new pad. Most of all, I’m excited that I will never have to sit on the DC Beltway in rush hour traffic again. My relocation makes for an easier, faster commute to my job- one that should prove to be gridlock free!
Perhaps another post tomorrow, when I’m happily in my new place, surrounded by boxes and a bottle of red wine.
1 Comment
July 31, 2008 at 4:38 am
Congrats on the big move. I live in DC because I loathe the traffic. It’s worth the extra costs to me.