I bought boxes this past week.  Lots of boxes.  In an attempt to get our house ready to put on the market, we need to purge or pack a lot of stuff and store it elsewhere.  I won’t even attempt to put it in to a percentage because honestly, that might be a little too depressing for me.  Anyway, I’d like to think I’m off to a good start.  Jake has been back to the big orange store a couple of times to re-stock my box pile.  He has also taken two truckloads of our possessions to his sister’s house for storage.  We are so thankful she is letting us pack our house into her basement.

5/30/13: Edited one year and about a month later to say that we (and family & friends) packed A LOT of boxes in order to move us out of our old house and into a new one.  I should have counted the trips he took to his sister’s house to store things there.  It’s amazing what you collect over the course of living in one place for 9 years…