When we sold our house and moved into a motorhome, rather than keep all our furniture, we either gave it to the kids or sold it in one of the two garage sales we had. The things we kept were mainly photographs, artwork, books and a few ornaments or home décor that had sentimental value. We boxed it all up and stored it in an upstairs apartment in Jay’s duplex in Orillia. At the time, Rick’s daughter, Angie, was renting the downstairs apartment and we knew she would keep a watchful eye on it. However, not too long afterwards Jay bought another house, this time in Markham, which he was moving into so he and Bill moved everything from Orillia. (By then Angie was moving too and Jay wanted to rent out the two apartments to other tenants.)

In December, Jay sold his Markham house and moved to BC bringing everything he and we owned along with him. When we were in Ontario last summer we went through everything we had stored and reduced it dramatically in anticipation of the pending move. In October we rented a storage unit in Vancouver for a few items we had acquired that we had no room for and when the rest of our stuff arrived, there was space for it as well. Now that Karley and Ian live in a much larger house in Mission, there is a room in the basement that will easily hold all of our stored items and Ian and Karley offered it to us.

This morning Rick rented a van and moved everything AGAIN, hopefully for the last time, until we actually have a bricks and mortar home of our own to put it in. Over the next two months we will go through it once more, reorganize it and probably reduce it again. It seems our stored items have moved almost as much as they would have had we dragged them all with us in the first place!