Getting rid of stuff is hard!

Since we now have a departure date we have started to try and get rid of some of our stuff, but I must warn you that it is hard,...very hard. 

At the moment we live (and have lived for 14 years) in a 4 bedroomed house. Over these years we have accumulated what now seems like a huge amount of stuff, but we are about to move to a smallish boat so there is a vast amount of our belongings that simply won't fit. What do we do with it?

Storage is horribly expensive - i was shocked. You will find that for most furniture if you are travelling for more than a couple of years, then the storage cost will be more than the cost to replace the item with new. We have tried to find friends who have the space to look after our more precious or valuable items, but what to do with the rest?

Well we have no time left (we are leaving next week) so we have decided to give everything away or throw it away. We have laid all our things out and our friends have been invited round to take what they want tomorrow - after that everything goes on the skip. It's a stressful experience because whilst its quite cathartic to get rid of redundant rubbish, its quite traumatic to throw away things that you like and you think are valuable but you have no room to store. 

Jan and I have already almost come to blows about what is worth storing and what should be thrown, no doubt there will be more serious discussion later on in the night. We will get there.....