Sustainable Life
with Bibi
In general, I'm a crunchy granola mom (sometimes read: hippie) with no specific philosophy on life. Our family makes it from month to month with my husband working full time as a teacher, and me staying home full time with our daughter, while taking in paid jobs as they come my way. The family budget is tight, but we try to do our part to clean up our lifestyle and our planet.
To learn more about Bibi, check out her profile on Work It, Mom! and her personal blog, Mamasense.
Unlike my husband’s family (who has been known to stay in one house for 20 years or more), we moved a LOT when I was a kid. Especially in my early teen years. One year we even moved between 4 and 5 times (depending on how you count a move…I count it in the number of times you have to load and unload a truck, i.e. once each per move). Because of these moves, I’m pretty much an expert at loading a U-Haul, and I definitely know how to pack a box, and clean, and do all that other moving related crap stuff. However, I think I loathe this process more than most people.
I tend to look around our house and think to myself how I wouldn’t want to pack up half this stuff, so let’s just get rid of it. It may be strange, but it’s how I really feel. I figure if you aren’t happy about boxing it up, making sure that it’s safe and secure, loading and unloading said box, unboxing it, and finding a new home for it, then it isn’t worth owning.
All that being said, this move feels different. I think it’s the most notice I’ve ever had about moving day…but even if it isn’t, it’s the most relaxing packing that I’ve ever done. I honestly the go into a room, fill up a box, label it, tape it up, and tell my husband that he can take it over to be stored in the garage at the new house. I don’t know why it isn’t stressful, but it just isn’t. I feel like the process is going in a relatively orderly fashion, and that progress is being made.
At the same time, I’m getting a chance to go through all the things that we have in this house that I don’t want to have cluttering up our new one. I know that I’ve changed my attitude quite a bit about housework over the past few months, but I never expected this to happen as a side effect. It’s amazing to me that changing from thinking “I have to get the kitchen packed up today” to “I’ll just fill up this box right now” can make such a big difference.
We’ll see how I feel as move-in day approaches, we’re at about nine days to blast off, and there are still many many many more boxes to fill.
Do any of you have moving secrets for success? I’m all ears if you do.
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