We’re in the process of moving from Germany to New York State at the moment. As you can imagine, this is quite a project, complicated by the fact that we’re under a very tight deadline.
We’ve had to sell or get rid of a lot of our stuff. That’s partly because we have limited space in our sea container, but also because we can’t use most of our European equipment in the US (here in Europe we have 220V instead of 110V, have different outlets and are on 50Hz instead of 60Hz).
As a result, we’ve sold our cars which we named Bruce and Dory (bonus points for those who recognize the movie they’re from), our wonderful food processor called Kenny (yes, we have a tendency to name things) and practical items like our coffee machine, our home trainer and our hand mixer. Basically, we’ve gotten rid of almost everything that’s big and/or power driven.
This has also given us an opportunity to reflect on living with less.
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