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.

Sigh. Sometimes I forget that I have terrible taste.

Ooh, geodesic domes, though!

I agree that a cluster of homes and/or apartments is the way to go.

If a building, make sure it has an elevator -- my friends who bought an apartment building together ~40 years ago are now realizing the stairs are kind of a problem! And there's no way to add an elevator, apparently. Or no reasonable way to do it.

Yes, there are several of us that would need elevators to start with. But I'm all for individual homes.

I am on board with the domes, though not with all of the wallpaper choices.