We brought home endless leftovers from our weekend at Mom's. I had the rest of the korma from our night out, and TCG and ltc had the rest of the pizza and stuffed shells.

That house is so UGLY

I may have to fight you, msbelle. That house is a lovely combination of hobbit hole and Graceland. I love it!

I'm with msbelle.

I moved into my house 10 years ago Thursday. Tomorrow is 10 yrs since closing.

but how? I helped and stuff. 10 YEARS!

oh korma sounds great. damn not living in Jackson Heights anymore!!!

maybe avocado. yeah that is pretty much just ready to eat. could do.

-t, it's awful. so sorry.

We've been in our new place coming up on a year and half soon. We were in Pasadena for about 12 years before that, and that was a lot of stuff to move. Much of the odds and ends are still in the garage in the new place. It's the downside to a 1200 SF garage, even a bunch of junk in there doesn't look like much.

Wow, here's the backstory on the house:

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Short version: Pimp with no taste.

I see your awful house and raise you geodesic domes.

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Amazing. Edit: I actually meant the pimp, but that goes for the geodesic domes as well. But differently.

I'm all for a Buffista compound. But rather than sharing a huge building, I'd go for cluster homes around a communal kitchen-living area. I'd like a place to go breathe every now and then. A lotta now and then. I'll just be in the stairwell.

I culled and culled books before we left. Some went to the hospital book carts, some (carefully selected) to the adult and children's church libraries, and some to a local private school. The rest went to the local public library.

And when I unpacked and went through what we'd brought with us, I culled another eleven boxes, the 'small' U-Haul moving boxes, of books to the local public library, except one that went to the neighborhood library.

Every place was glad to get them. I might have been tempted to try and sell the newer popular fiction on ebay, but by then I wanted them available to be read more than I wanted the money, especially with the monitoring, packing, and mailing, etc. I know the public library put some of them in their semi-annual Friends of the Library sale, but some went straight on the shelves. That was easy, and made us feel really good.

We've done a lot of Restore and Veterans donations--the Veterans pick up--they're getting the loveseat and treadmill. Actually very little has gone to Goodwill, but even that means somebody may get some use out of what we don't need or use.

I shouldn't wait till once or twice a year, though. I should adopt msbelle's habit of ongoing purging, and keep up with the slow, unnoticed accrual.