Purge Time !

The box of shoes currently on the chopping block. Hopefully all will sell and I'll be on my way to disposing of excess clothes next.  There's a lot more to get rid of than I thought there would be.  After we sold our house in 2007, we had a really big garage sale/purge fest and only kept minimal stuff, or so we thought.  But now that we have our new home, a 44 foot catamaran, that we think we'll be on for a while, we have to

 get rid of more stuff so that we don't have to store it anywhere.  Every new purchase has to be carefully thought out, "do we need it?", "do we have something else that can do the same job?".  We must be weight misers!

Even though this new boat is longer than our old one, catamarans are more weight sensitive than monohulls, especially heavy steel ones.  One advantage of the cat is that is will be a much faster boat, but not if too much stuff is piled into it.  I'm only too happy to get rid of stuff that we don't need or is accumulating in bags and boxes under tables and in closets. We are in a rental, so our things have been out everywhere since we've been here, it makes it all too apparent just what we have and what we use. But it also makes it easier to get rid of.