Here's the good news about selling all your furniture before you move....you get rid of stuff you've had forever and are kind of tired of...and you don't have to haul it 3,200 miles across this big 'ole country of ours.
Here's the bad news about selling all your stuff....once you get where you're going, you have nothing and you have to start all over. You don't really think about it as the years go by, but you accumulate stuff all the time...weekly, monthly and yearly. Suddenly, after nearly 40 years (I realize that makes no sense), you've got a lot of furniture and every closet is full. It took us 40 years to fill our house and about two days to empty it.
So, here we are out shopping for, well....pretty much everything. New sofa, new chairs, new tables, new TV, new curtains, new headboard, new kitchen "stuff", new bathroom "stuff", new clothes, new walking shoes (they have great stores here...everyone walks and camps),new dog beds, new mattress and box spring, new lamps, new rugs...the list seems endless. In short, starting over. For most guys I know, shopping is not something programmed into our DNA. We tolerate it, but we're always glad when it's over. Sort of like going to the dentist. I must not be alone in this regard, as Amazon is single-handedly putting most retailers out of business by offering shopping and free delivery from the comfort of your home computer. I'll buy a new shirt while sitting in my old paint- spattered jeans and 10 year old T-shirt, thank you very much.
But, we need to get this done, so each and every day we head down to the amazing shopping area of Roseville, where every store we've ever heard of exists and about 500 more we haven't heard of have opened. As I write this, we've finally purchased a Sony TV and sound system. Driving home from Best Buy, we realized that we've only bought four TV's since we got married in 1977! Amazing....we get ten years out of these suckers before we have to replace them. I can't decide if we're really thrifty or just cheap.
We found a sofa we're going to get tomorrow and an area rug. Soon, we won't be sitting on camp chairs any longer and staring at our little 18" Vizio sitting on a plastic storage box. Yes, we do that. If only I could show you the expression on the face of our cable guy (the second one) when he walked into our big vaulted living room and saw....our little TV sitting on a Home Depot storage box. I was sure he wanted to call his office and ask if he could do a charity installation. I tried to look really pitiful. He didn't buy it.
That's about it for now. I'm getting ready to unbox the Sony and fire up the sound system. Tonight, we can watch our shows on a big screen....sitting on our camp chairs. Life is good.
Cheers!
Wayne, Claudia & Tuck