Stuff

When we travel, we will each have one suitcase (thanks Dad!) and one carry-on day pack. Not a lot of stuff for each of us. Yet we think we'll manage just fine for 5 months.

Which brings me to packing up the house. Because we're renting the house while we're gone, we need to put away all our personal belongings. I spent a little time researching storage places, pricing out 5 x 5 units and concluded that this would be a relatively affordable necessary expense.

And then we started packing up our stuff. How did we ever acquire so much? There's no way we can fit everything that needs to be stored into such a small unit. Do we really need this much? Especially since we think we can live for 5 months out of 1 suitcase each.

Perhaps when we get back we'll discover that we really don't need all this stuff, and we will resume our home life with a major purge. Or perhaps, and possibly more likely, we'll acquire more stuff as we travel, eventually becoming a family of 4 with 4 suitcases, 4 day packs, and a random assortment of carrier bags and extra boxes.