I haven’t lived in the same place longer than 9 months since 2002. I’m so over packing and moving. So over it. I basically live my life trying as hard as possible to accumulate as little stuff as possible, so I have as little stuff as possible to pack when it inevitably comes time to do so. And actually, living that way also makes a person a little more frugal, because when I buy something, I buy it knowing that I will have to either throw it out or pack it and move it at some point in the not so distant future.
And yet I find myself wondering where all this crap I have to pack now has materialized from. I have too much stuff! I thought I was doing a good job at not buying too too much stuff (and believe me, it’s hard to do in Japan, the land of cool stuff to buy that you must buy now because you will never find it back home), and yet… Sigh.
As much as I hate moving, I have to admit it’s a good way to force oneself to cull and cull and cull again all their possessions and realize how much crap they own.
August 31st, 2007 at 9:51 pm
Are you leaving Japan sometime soon? A few other people and I were just starting to put together a new blog for hiking in the Kyushu and Shikoku areas. I was hoping that you would check it out and maybe even add to it: http://demo.inktails.com