{"id":4434,"date":"2011-07-14T21:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=4434"},"modified":"2011-07-14T21:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-14T20:08:00","slug":"pigsty-project-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2011\/07\/14\/pigsty-project-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigsty Project II"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Not literally looking like a pigsty. More like after a tornado or teen home-alone party, some such.<\/em><\/p>\n

Extremely regular readers – well, probably only myself – will remember the Pigsty Project from last time I moved. It is a year and a half ago, after all. It was quite simple really: Each workday I would carry something, anything, out of the home, never to return. I could be an empty bottle, used batteries (we are not supposed to throw those in the household garbage around here), a used book to give to the second-hand book store. Anything that was not going to be used again, and that did not go in the regular garbage.<\/p>\n

I am not sure when I started. If I had been smart, I had started as soon as I heard I would be moving, but I think I only did this the last few weeks. It was complicated by the fact that I also carried things each workday that I would bring to the new house before the actual move, so as to make that less.<\/p>\n

I continued for some weeks after I moved too, because frankly there were still things left. Eventually it came to an end.<\/p>\n

Yes, I have started it again. Strangely, there was now a multitude of such things. Partly there are new ones, like empty glasses that have held pasta sauce. Partly there are old ones, like the comics I was sure I was going to read again but never did. If I had a couple more months before the move, \u00c2\u00a0I could probably have made it off with them all. But I didn’t.<\/p>\n

Needless to say, perhaps, this time I started as soon as I heard I would be moving. \u00c2\u00a0And I intend to continue until I am rid of everything I don’t need. This time, even the old computers will go, even if I have to carry them bit by bit. That is what I think. We shall see what actually happens. Yesterday and today I carried books. For tomorrow I have set a bag of comic books by the door. I brought along the glasses (as opposed to setting them adrift on the river) so they will also have to go. \u00c2\u00a0I think most of the rest I need to get rid of will be fit to throw in the garbage bin.<\/p>\n

I got my own garbage bin! Even though it is only half a house. It is certified family residential unit so evidently I get my own. That should help. Well, if I don’t fall back to keeping everything “just in case” once I forget the packing and unpacking. What is the chance?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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