Homeless at work

[Tim]

I returned to the office today to find that the seating arrangement on the whole floor is being shifted around to accommodate this year's division-wide strategic program. Since I'm moving to Japan in 3.5 weeks, I haven't been allocated a new workspace. I'll be using a temporary "hotel space" until I leave.

We have to be out by noon today -- this means that I had to do my final pre-Japan packing this morning. I've given away all the extra t-shirts I had sitting around (company swag), one of my red Red Hat hats (the company loves to give us red hats -- ball caps, cowboy hats, etc. And everyone gets a really nice red suede fedora on their first day with the company), a monitor, docking station, keyboard, etc.

I've been going through the same exercise at home. Everything's for sale, basically. I sold my furniture and my rugs. I gave away some kitchen things. I'm loaning wuapinmon my TV for the two years. My 10-feet-wide vintage 1950's Orange Crush aluminum sign is going into a friend's garage. I'm shipping my car to California. I'll have a 5x10 storage unit for my bed and desk, plus a few boxes of childhood memories that my dad brought me a few years ago (Boy scout uniforms, baseball trophies, yearbooks, etc.).

Basically all I'm taking is a couple boxes of clothes, a couple boxes of books, my computers, my smaller TV, some kitchen gadgets, and a few other random things. Part of me thinks this constant pruning of my life's possessions is good for me -- it keeps me from being a pack rat -- but I wonder if my future wife and children will someday wish I had kept more stuff from my life.

Your thoughts?

[kccougar]

Part of me thinks this constant pruning of my life's possessions is good for me -- it keeps me from being a pack rat -- but I wonder if my future wife and children will someday wish I had kept more stuff from my life.

Your thoughts?

Your future wife will want new stuff and will have no desire to see a vintage orange crush sign hanging on HER living room wall.

[CJF]

I returned to the office today to find that the seating arrangement on the whole floor is being shifted around to accommodate this year's division-wide strategic program. Since I'm moving to Japan in 3.5 weeks, I haven't been allocated a new workspace. I'll be using a temporary "hotel space" until I leave.

We have to be out by noon today -- this means that I had to do my final pre-Japan packing this morning. I've given away all the extra t-shirts I had sitting around (company swag), one of my red Red Hat hats (the company loves to give us red hats -- ball caps, cowboy hats, etc. And everyone gets a really nice red suede fedora on their first day with the company), a monitor, docking station, keyboard, etc.

I've been going through the same exercise at home. Everything's for sale, basically. I sold my furniture and my rugs. I gave away some kitchen things. I'm loaning wuapinmon my TV for the two years. My 10-feet-wide vintage 1950's Orange Crush aluminum sign is going into a friend's garage. I'm shipping my car to California. I'll have a 5x10 storage unit for my bed and desk, plus a few boxes of childhood memories that my dad brought me a few years ago (Boy scout uniforms, baseball trophies, yearbooks, etc.).

Basically all I'm taking is a couple boxes of clothes, a couple boxes of books, my computers, my smaller TV, some kitchen gadgets, and a few other random things. Part of me thinks this constant pruning of my life's possessions is good for me -- it keeps me from being a pack rat -- but I wonder if my future wife and children will someday wish I had kept more stuff from my life.

Your thoughts?

You're taking your tv to Japan?

[Tim]

You're taking your tv to Japan?

I'm taking the smaller of the two. It's a Samsung LCD that I just bought a few months ago, and it's rated for U.S. and Japan voltages. I'll hook that up to a SlingCatcher, which will be hooked to a SlingBox here in Raleigh. I'm not taking that much stuff, and the company is paying for a crate the size of a refrigerator box, so I might as well take it. I'm spent a bit of time researching it and it should definitely work.

The Toshiba DLP is going to wuapinmon's house.

[Tim]

Your future wife will want new stuff and will have no desire to see a vintage orange crush sign hanging on HER living room wall.

LOL! The sign is definitely destined for an office or garage wall. Definitely.

I was referring to more of the random stuff, like souvenirs from trips, etc. I've tried to stay as lightweight as possible over the years. It's nice to not have so much stuff, but at the same time it would be nice to "have stuff," you know?

[TripletDaddy]

I thought this for a ling time, too.

Then about a year or so ago, and after 10 years of marriage, my wife and I realized that I don't care to see the clay coin bank my wife made in elementary school and she doesn't really care to sift through Bolivian coins from my mission.

Dumping a bunch of junk was the best thing we did for our garage.

We kept all the photos and any journals and such. But random things we just tossed. I had a box of Depeche Mode, Smiths, New Order pins from when I was in HS in the 80s. Why I had kept those for 20 years, I have no idea. I did keep all my concert stubs, though, because I continue to collect those.

[beelzebabette]

Your thoughts?

Unless it's an indoor (less dusty) storage unit, I'd give the bed away as well. If it's like most storage units, you're not going to want to sleep on it when you get back.

[UteStar]

I did keep all my concert stubs, though, because I continue to collect those.

Thats awesome that you kept those 3 ticket stubs from your concerts. Call me crazy, but tickets to Belinda Carlisle, Cher in Vegas and David Cassidy's Remember Me Tour, have to be worth something.

[YOhio]

Thats awesome that you kept those 3 ticket stubs from your concerts. Call me crazy, but tickets to Belinda Carlisle, Cher in Vegas and David Cassidy's Remember Me Tour, have to be worth something.

lol!