Well sooner or later it's down to what to take and what to offload, first on the agenda was my clothes. To simplify I brought the clothing down stairs (easier not to put things back on the rail). Three considerations, is it worth keeping? Will I actually wear it again? And is it suitable for Portugal? With this in mind I ended up with three quarters of a bag to throw away and I bag for others to pick through anything left goes to charity.
That tackled it was onto books, mostly the big books shelved downstairs, it worked out about a fifty/fifty split, so we have a unit of books for people to take if they want all others will go to our local charity book shop. I have a huge pile of paperbacks to wade through but once again I have a criteria, would anyone one really want to read it, we want to have some that people can borrow, have I got a duplicates on my iPad and is it in good condition? Pretty much all the books we're taking have been packed up, many of those we're not taking have been dispatched elsewhere.
Another weekend (we only have about 6 more free), another bout of clearing and packing. Saturdays job was the spare room which has been sorted and cleaned, partly for moving reasons but mostly because we have a friend staying over next weekend. Today we cleared the shed, dumped the crap and I packed up two more boxes of breakables.
And so the mountain of boxes grows as our life in this house diminishes, I wander round with a song in my head "Should it stay or should it go?".
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