Packed

Currently, the living room is a maze of boxes. So’s the kitchen. So’s the office.

Why is it that as soon as you pack everything into boxes, it all seems to expand to fill all available space? You wonder how you’ve managed to accumulate so much crap – and yet when it all comes out at the other end, it’ll all revert to it’s normal space allocation.

Bizarre.

But it does have the side-benefit of making me realise (again) how much stuff we have accumulated, while also working as a bit of a rationalisation exercise (again) to reduce those levels of stuff, or at least re-allocate them off to

1. a local charity shop
2. recycling places
3. a skip
   or
4. the local tip, as a last resort