TheBanyanTree: SOLD!

[NancyIee at aol.com]

Margaret,

Congratulations on your good fortune.  Moving is a big stressor, I think, 
what with selling, buying, finances, paperwork, . .and the horrendous job of 
packing and deciding what to take and what to throw away or sell.

I bought one house a long time ago and I truly admired what the sellers did. 
It was to be a vacation home, so the sellers said they would leave the 
furniture.  She also left her books, vases, cookware, linens . . .clothes . handbags 
. .right down to lace hankies.  In actuality I think she simply picked up 
their purses and walked out.(She DID take her portrait, painted in oil by a rather 
wll-known local artist in about 1934., but she left her hats. Thusly, I 
"inherited" a vast collection of fancy hats as worn in the first quarter of the 
last century by women of a certain means and social status.)

That house became a permanent residence, and when I moved out . I still had 
the hats . .as well as my mother's and grandmother's things.  Imagine the 
nightmare.

Unfortunately, I took much of it with me, right down to crayoned cards my 
children made for me, my mother's twenty and some photo albums, (me at birth, me 
at two weeks, me at three weeks,my first smile, my first bath, me sitting in 
the high chair, me with my face covered in baby food . . . and there were six 
of us to come along . . . you get the idea.)

I never throw anything away.  For instance, our house was vandalized years 
ago, and my mother's ruby glass collection was smashed: little vases and shot 
glasses and cut glass ruby glasses.. I STILL have the carton of shattered, ruby 
glass.  How sick is that?

Moving can be a good way to get rid of all the years' worth of stuff we keep.


May you find the right home in the right location at the right price, and may 
it bring you a new adventure and years of joy.


NancyLee