As we start to prepare for our move from Misawa Japan to Enid, Oklahoma, it became clear that it is time to purge. When we arrived here three years ago, our kids were in a different phase of life and we have just held on to the leftover items because there was no motivation to get rid of it. We have to divide our home into three different shipments- the big shipment HHG (household goods) which will leave in May, the more essential day to day items, Unaccompanied Baggage, that will leave in June, and the things that we will cart around in suitcases until we have somewhere to live in OK. We have no extra room in our house to sort all of this and so it is necessary to get rid of things that are not needed anymore. We used Marie Kondo's philosophy of discarding. It seemed fitting as we are in Japan and there was the Netflix series and her book to learn from. I really liked thinking of the things that bring us JOY and the things we are going to keep. It seemed so much easier to make decisions this way. I do not think we discarded enough to be featured on her show, but I was surprised at how much we have been holding onto in our little Misawa home:
Clothing- 7 bags
Papers- 2 bags
Books- 2 boxes/crates
Komono (miscellaneous) 18 bags
Every time I took a load to the thrift store on base I felt a little bad for the employees there who have to sort through my junk. Maybe someone just arriving here can benefit for it. Life comes full circle here in Misawa!
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| Bub and our seven bags of discarded clothing |
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