Before most major moves, I liked to review this favorite book: Walden, which always helped me prepare and focus on essentials.
“Our life is frittered away by detail ... Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let our affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred ... Simplify, simplify!”
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
— goodreads.com
A month ago, I made a short list of “essentials”. (Turned out to be a long list that would horrify Thoreau.) For example, my 2002 Winter Olympics boots still bring me joy about once a year and may be passed on to grandchildren, regardless of “global warming”.
Fortunately, I am forever free of couches, sofas, big beds, dressers, entertainment centers, bookshelves, and curio cabinets. In 2017, my wife Kay & I sold and donated all of that to prepare for a mission. I will move my few things by myself — a one-man job without help from the quorum and Relief Society. (Since October 2018, my companion is free to work on the other side ... with love.)
By the way, what’s the difference ... “Chances are, you’ve been using [the words] sofa and couch interchangeably for years without thinking twice about whether or not they’re the same.” Historically they are different, but designers now dismiss that for marketing. So, use the word you prefer, like “soda” or “pop”.
— Kelsey Mulvey 7/11/2018, apartmenttherapy.com
What will my next dream home (studio apartment) look like? The open house will simply show it all (like my “holiday open house” did 11/16/2019) ... possibly with a virtual tour.
