22 December 2004Housing Situation
Getting in Gear

Here is the pile of stuff that I took out of my storage shed.


All of this stuff, including 26 12 gallon plastic crates, a stereo, a few milk crates, a dozen bags, a microwave, my HP printer, framed posters and photos, kitchen stuff and office supplies, and tons of other loose things were jammed into a 5x5x10 box in Alameda for the last 28 months.

Last night I started to tackle the mess. Now it looks like this.


A little better, no?

I'm a horrible packrat, so it was great fun going through all these boxes and re-discovering my things. Most of the remaining crates that you see are full of books. I only have one bookcase at the moment so they will have to remain crated up until I decide what to do about furniture.

Posted by andrew at December 22, 2004 10:24 AM


Comments

Ursula Says:

So how much of what was in storage have you thrown away? Just wondering!

December 23, 2004 12:04 PM
Andrew Writes:

Nothing, to be honest.Partially because I haven't gone through everything. Partially because I don't even know where the garbage is in my building. I assume there's a chute somewhere, but I haven't come across it yet. I did a lot of purging before I got the storage space so most of the stuff I kept in there, I wanted at the time. But now it's two years later, my tastes have changed a bit, so i'll probably be making a trip to Good Will before the year is out. I might go through my book collection over the holidays and see if there anything I can part with. But I will keep 99% percent of it. I paid enough to store it, I might as keep it, right?

December 23, 2004 12:10 PM




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