It's just stuff, right?

One thing that we decided is that when we move we are not taking everything with us. We are moving from a three bedroom house to a two bedroom apartment. This means we have to sell, give away or trash our "stuff". It has been a little harder than we thought to do this. Not the selling of our stuff but putting a value on it.
Do we keep this or that.
I have created an inventory of almost all of our stuff: furniture, DVDs, electronics, kitchen stuff, video games and miscellaneous things (hockey equipment, pictures, sports memorabilia, etc). I found this is a great way to see what we have and evaluate if we are going to keep, sell or give away/trash.
Making a list of belongings was easy, choosing what we are taking with us and what we are selling for giving away is not so easy.
It's just stuff, right?
Well one would think, these things we buy are a backdrop of who we are, our personality. You don't realize what kind of attachment you have for an inanimate object until it is gone. Grant it, I am not heart broken by any stretch of the imagination but the memories associated with that object, how and when you got it, what was life like when you got it and what you did when you had it all come back to you when you have to decide to keep or sell something.
A really good example, Scott had promised me that I could get a bedroom set when we moved into our new house. I was so excited, a week after we closed on the house, I was still recovering from my thyroid surgery so I was spending the day with my mom. We wander around some shops in Vienna, VA (where we used to live). We came across a furniture store that was going out of business. Mom and I decided to go and check it out. As we were walking through the store I spotted a beautiful bedroom set the fit both our personalities and styles. A $8700 bedroom set was now on sale for $3000. I am talking well made, hard wood with good craftsmanship and it was a great deal, I couldn't pass it up.
The memories associated with this are shopping with my Mom (which I love doing) right after my surgery, moving to a new house, spending every night with my husband sleeping in that bed and how great it looks in that room.
It is just stuff, right? Like Scott's dad said "Scott, it is just a piece of furniture, not a family heirloom."

Change

Change - n. -new experience; variety. Well new experiences are coming. My husband got an amazing offer with his current company to take a job with the Telecommunications Department with CVS in Scottsdale, AZ. So this east coast girl is moving to the Southwest! We are looking to move out there around the end of November.
Until then it is a lot of hurry up and wait as we get ourselves ready for the "BIG MOVE"!