What to pack?

They say moving house is one of the most stressful things you can do. And that was before covid!

Somehow it has been a six month process for us – New Zealand’s efficient system worlds away! To be honest, we’ve not been in any rush and we were all agreed for a move just before Christmas, and then… my son got covid.

Luckily, he hasn’t really had any symptoms. But, his isolation was due to end as we moved. So there went our plan for packers sweeping in to pack the house up! Instead, there was a last minute dash for boxes. A significantly different context to leaving NZ with my backpack (admittedly, many years ago now).

My technique was quite different from my husband’s. Sorting was quite simple: bin, box, charity shop. (Although I know better than to turf the “lucky log”…). He has a few more categories so we settled on a happy medium. I spent my time on the 80% and he covered the 20% that my categories apparently weren’t appropriate for.

There was also an interesting pattern from the kids. They were “very busy” when it came to packing and suddenly found a lot more things that could be ‘on-gifted’ when it came to unpacking: translation – I can’t be bothered taking it out of the box.

It may have been beneficial for (lack of) auditing purposes that I unpacked the new house, while my husband cleaned the old one…