by Claire
I love documentaries. I don’t watch much television but when I do it’s usually a documentary. Well, that isn’t entirely true. I do love me some Big Bang Theory! Anyway, I watched The Queen of Versailles this week and loved it! It’s on Netflix. What a story! What a way to find motivation to get rid of even more stuff! Have you seen this show? The excess! The black hole of empty these people are trying to fill! The lack of a conscience! Wow. The whole thing blew me away and had me saying aloud (with no one else in the room but the dogs) “Is this real??” I felt profound sadness for these people in spite of the evidence of greed in their world. It wasn’t all greed as the documentary showed some sides of charity and concern for their employees but the excess! Wow!
And as I fell asleep it made me think about how we can all so easily be little versions of this craziness. I’ve been talking a lot about downsizing in recent weeks and just like my food journey–I feel the change really taking root and taking hold. I’m happy about that. It feels great!
To address a couple of questions about my upcoming move: Yes, I will move car load of things that will lower my moving cost a bit, but the real reason is there are just those items that I prefer to move myself. I never got an answer to my garage sale question from the HOA and haven’t had a chance to follow up on it but I imagine I’ll still have some things I can sell. We move on Easter weekend though so I don’t know if that would be a good or bad weekend for a sale. Maybe I can be ready the week before. I have been doing a little each day and the downstairs is completely packed. We have one cabinet of stuff in the kitchen but otherwise all of the boxes are packed! I’ll tackle the upstairs this weekend although that should be light b/c we underwent major clean out upon my ex’s move out.
I’m still excited about the move and all of the upcoming changes! Thanks for hanging in there with me and the kids along the way!
