TheBanyanTree: Packing and moving

[NancyIee at aol.com]

In a message dated 11/19/06 5:32:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
petermacinnis at ozemail.com.au writes:
No, I won't be winnowing the books -- I did that last year, and I gave 
at least three away.  We really are down to the lower limit of 
sustainability.
(sigh)  How well I feel for you in this.  I, too, have too many books, too 
many of the mother's things, my grandmother's things.  I should hold a gigantic 
sale, but . .can't.  How can I decide what has to go, my grandmother's silver 
service (coffee urn, tea pot, sugar and creamer) and my mother's collection of 
ruby glass?  Hope can I part with my father's framed pressed flowers, or my 
grandfather's pipe collection and ivory chess set?

I have a two-car garage stuffed to the rafters with cartons I probably will 
never again open and can't get rid of.  My OWN stuff, first edition books, my 
photo albums, the massive afghan my great-grandmother crochetted, my father's 
telescope, hand-ground when he was interested in the stars.

  When I die, I will have to be buried in a U-Haul.


NancyLee